Martha Weston

Dot tries to get her new pet fish to do something interesting while she defends them from the hungry attention of her cat Fuzzy.

Four-year-old Tessa is impatient with her new baby brother William.

When Gran comes to visit, Polly wishes she would go home, until one night when Gran babysits.

Topher Blakely gets the lead in the eight-grade play, but unfortunately the play is "Rumpelstiltskin, " the class bully picks on him relentlessly, and his beloved cat dies, all of which teach him a lot about compassion, friendship, and life.

Nate and his dog Sludge are determined to find the recipe for his mother's monster cookies.

While traveling on the train to San Francisco with his cousin Olivia's owl, Nate the Great and his dog Sludge must use all of their detective skills when the owl suddenly disappears.

Bo bakes a full moon cake as a surprise for his friend Annie, but the outcome is unexpected.

Cora, a castaway child who was adopted and raised by African elephants, persuades her elephant mother and father to travel with her to San Francisco in search of her roots.

Two boys find that the most ordinary events and activities such as card games, coin flips, sports scores and statistics, and even weather prediction are dependent on the subtle interplay of many factors of chance and probability.