Collects four stories in which Horrid Henry cheats at his favorite board game, writes his own newspaper, is forced into a play date with Moody Margaret, and sabotages Perfect Peter's birthday party.

"Kitty wants to sleep. Puppy wants to play. Can they compromise?"--

After Stanley Lambchop goes flat once again, he uses his flatness to help win a sailboat race and to rescue a classmate from a collapsed building.

Picked last for kickball, Amelia Bedelia gets another chance to prove her athleticism when her class holds a mini-Oylympics.

Humorous rhyming text takes the reader through twenty-seven unexpected varieties of dogs that one could have as a pet.

Eleven-year-old best friends Jeff and Wiley, who like to give nicknames to their classmates, try to find the right one for the new girl Cassandra, while adjusting to the football coach who has become their new teacher.

This unique collection of Twain’s essential short stories and semiautobiographical narratives is a testament to the author’s vast imagination. Featuring popular tales such as “Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog” and “The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg,” as well as some delightful excerpts from The Diaries of Adam and Eve, this compilation also includes darker works written in the author’s twilight years....

Max Spaniel outperforms all of the other entrants in a dog show.

When Marty finds a cryptic message that claims he is being observed by aliens, Marty attempts to head off this threat to Earth, find his missing cat, and get his homework turned in on time, with help of his best friends.