Frank Carlson Library

Lenny follows Olivia for a school project and learns about her life with her stepfamily.

Nancy wants to adopt a special puppy so that she is no longer the only fancy member of her family, but after a day of puppy sitting a papillon, she realizes that being fancy is not always the most important thing.

One morning after a thunderstorm, the Lambchop family is surprised to discover that Stanley is suddenly invisible.

After second-grader Stink gets an unsatisfactory grade in physical education, his parents tell him he must play a sport and so he masters thumb wrestling, as seen on a sports channel.

When his mother brings home a guinea pig instead of the dog he has always wanted, fifth-grader Rufus is not happy--until the rodent starts acting exactly like a dog.

When the Alden children accompany their grandfather to the Snow Haven Lodge, a series of odd occurrences threaten to disrupt the annual winter games.

Sita (A.K.A . Squishy) has moved in with her father and his new family, which includes a pair of twin girls (Jessie and Vee) while her mother is away on a security assignment in Geneva, and she is finding her "bonus sisters" difficult to get along with even though they are only five months older--but when Vee finds out that Squishy is feeding a runaway boy who is hiding in the apartment house garage the two girls discover that a shared secret can...

It's another Thanksgiving at Grandma's. Gavin expects a long day of boredom and being pestered by distantly related toddlers, but his cousin Rhonda has a different idea: make a break for it - out of the kids' room to the swing set in the backyard! Gavin isn't so sure, especially when they encounter vicious guard dogs (in homemade sweaters), a hallway full of overly affectionate aunts, and worse yet, the great wall of butts! Will they manage to avoid...

Henry and Benny are suspects when a valuable vase disappears from the local department store where they are working for the summer.

When a busy family's activities come to a halt because of a blackout, they find they enjoy spending time together and not being too busy for once.