Follows the adventures of nine-year-old Ramona at home with big sister Beezus and baby sister Roberta and at school in Mrs. Meacham's class.

An ugly duckling spends an unhappy year ostracized by the other animals before he grows into a beautiful swan.

Little Mouse creates a painting which looks like three different things to her three friends, all of whom find themselves in it.

An alphabet book in which two children demonstrate all the fun that is to be had by making and hearing every kind of noise as they dash about on the farm.

Unusual things continue to happen in the classroom on the thirtieth floor of Wayside School, which was accidentally built sideways with one classroom on each story. "Before you enter Wayside School, you should know that it's a thirty-story building with one classroom on each floor. Mrs. Jewls teaches the class on the thirtieth story. Mis Zaves teaches the class on the nineteeth story -- except there is no nineteenth story, so there is no Miss Zarves....

Describes the activities and changes involved in having a new baby in the house and the feelings experienced by the older brothers and sisters.