Rosemary Wells

While the popular Tiffany and athletic Charles make increasingly outrageous promises in their campaigns for President of Canine Country Day School, Otto quietly enters the race, vowing only to try to do what students really want.

The Worrier visits Felix night after night, reminding him of what could go wrong the next day, until the night that a special birthday present changes everything.

While Ruby plans a Fourth of July doll picnic, Max sends letters to Santa to ask for "a bright red Sand-Spitter Motorcycle with Bigfoot tires, " but the letters are delivered to his grandmother, instead, and she must try to decipher the pictures. Includes lift-up flaps.

Mary Elizabeth loves her new puppy Lucy but discovers that puppies need special care and understanding.

When Yoko's class puts on a play about taking care of teeth, several students are not happy with their parts.

Ruby tries to keep her brother Max from eating so many sweets by reading him an altered version of the story of King Midas.

Growing up between 1909 and 1917, Berty enjoys the slow-rolling wheel of time on his Vermont farm and cannot understand his older brother's desire to see other parts of the world.