A child learns that there are consequences for thoughtless behavior, from feeding popcorn to a bear at the zoo to dropping an empty can out of a car window.

"The exasperating Gingerbread Man, famous for leading a host of townsfolk and animals in a wild chase about the countryside, lives at 398.2 on the library shelves. But the Gingerbread Man is not the type of cookie that stays in one place for very long, and one day he just can't help himself. With a leap and a whoosh, he escapes the librarian's grasp, and the chase for the wily Gingerbread Man is on again!"--p. [2] of jacket.

Flip-Flop's friends do not want to help her make a fly pie, but they do want to help her eat it.

Count the 12 days of St. Patrick's Day! On the first day of St. Patrick's, I was lucky to find... This story starts with a shamrock in a field of green, then adds TWO pots of gold, THREE top hats, and so on through twelve busy days leading up to St. Patrick's Day.

Flip-Flop does not have a talent for acting, but she finds another way to contribute to the class play.

SHELLEY FRANKENSTEIN is a little girl with a rather infamous family heritage, who loves to be scared and assumes all other kids feel the same. To prove her theory, Shelley and her assistant brother, Iggy, set about creating new toys to horrify their playground peers. But all of their experiments backfire in a completely unexpected way.

Friends and fellow sleuths Jeff, Brian, Mara, and Kelly, known as the Goofballs, investigate the disappearance of Thunder the pony.

A family celebrates Hanukkah by lighting a menorah, exchanging gifts, sharing a special meal, and playing dreidel. On board pages.