A girl tells her younger brother all of the rules he must follow in order to befriend a dragon.

Bear's best friend Bug wants to play with her, but Bear is too tired and irritated to be nice to Bug.

When his older brother gets in serious trouble, sixth-grader Clay decides to change his own mischief-making ways, but he cannot seem to shake his reputation as a troublemaker.

Loretta meets a young fairy who has misused her magic and has been sent to the human world to grow up.

When Hyena puts a banana skin in Giraffe's path, causing a chain reaction of accidents that Hyena finds hilarious, he soon learns what it is like to be the butt of a joke.

Lots of little, everyday frustrations make Nina mad, and she is very good at expressing her feelings.

"Japanese literary sensation Fuminori Nakamura's latest novel is as a dark look into human psyche -- what turns someone into a killer? Can it be something as small as a suggestion? Turn this page, and you may forfeit your entire life. A confessional diary implicates its reader in a heinous crime, and reveals with disturbing honesty the psychological motives of a killer. With My Annihilation, Fuminori Nakamura, master of literary noir, has constructed...

Clara's grumpiness leads her mother to take her to a neighbor who is a curandera, or healer, and although she is puzzled by her "treatment," Clara dutifully helps her neighbors, is kind to her siblings, and reads more books for a week.

Junie, a spunky, sometimes exasperating, kindergartener, looks forward to winning lots of prizes at the school carnival, but a fruit cake was not exactly what she had in mind.