Amelia Bedelia has a wonderful time at her first slumber party.

"Amelia Bedelia loses her tooth . . . and then she loses it again. But it's finders keepers in the end"--

In his first journal, middle schooler Rowley Jefferson, Greg Heffley's sidekick, records his experiences and misguided decision to write a biography of Greg, who, in his own mind, is destined to become rich and famous.

"Yellow Bird has found a button and wants to share it with Red Bird and Blue Bird. This is just an ordinary button. It does not do anything when you press it. But when Red Bird and Blue Bird give it try, they are delighted to find that the button does not do nothing, and that is something!"--

When eighth-grader Cameron Boxer creates the Positive Action Group at school he intends it as a diversion to fool his parents, teachers, and sister into letting him continue to concentrate on his video-gaming--but before he knows it other kids are taking it seriously, and soon he finds himself president of the P.A.G., and involved in community service, so the boy who never cared about anything is now the center of everything, whether he likes it or...

If you choose to wear unmatched shoes, can they still be a pair?

"Little Dinosaur gets ready for Christmas"--

When a pest eats all the vegetables in garden, Duck comes up with a plan to stop whatever is feasting on his crops.

Participating in a class assignment to volunteer around her community, Emma enthusiastically commits to too many activities and receives exuberant help from her pooch pal.

Nancy is delighted that the new boy in her class is from Paris and sets out to become his friend, then discovers that this Parisian is not quite as fancy as she had thought.