When Lily the kitten loses Louis the alligator's trumpet, her helping nature aids her as she looks for it.

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

"When a boy's abuela accuses him of being careless with his beloved Bongo, he devises a trap and catches the toy thief red-handed"--

"What does the perfect song sound like? Normally, Malcolm Kid wouldn't give this type of question the time of day. As a straight B-student with a heart of copper, he is far more concerned with overcoming mediocrity than he is with achieving perfection. But that all changes when he stumbles across the LK-2000--a strange keyboard cursed with the soul of an old jazz musician. Malcolm soon learns that the only way to free this musician's soul is by performing...

A young boy encounters a lion while trying to find his pet cat--meeting a number of other animals along the way.

Noah enjoys Christmas shopping with his mother, his little sister, and his favorite stuffed toy, Oliver Elephant, until he realizes that he does not know what has become of Oliver.

Seamore is a very forgetful porpoise and when neither notes to himself nor string around his fins help, he decides to search for his missing memory.

When he starts to lose his bones, Bones the skeleton enlists help from his friend Punk the dog to help him find them.

When someone takes a pet goldfish, then other items from Ms. Herschel's classroom, each time leaving a clue in the form of a poem, student Edgar Allan competes with a classmate to be first to solve the mystery.

When three leprechaun statues disappear just before St. Patrick's Day, Bradley, Brian, Nate, Lucy, and other friends follow clues in order to prove that Lucky O'Leary is innocent of the crime.