In this story (told in the form of a television broadcast), bears emerge from hibernation demanding to be fed.

Eighth-grade football hero Wallace Wallace is sentenced to detention attending rehearsals of the school play where, in spite of himself, he becomes wrapped up in the production and begins to suggest changes that improve not only the play but his life as well.

On the run after being falsely accused of murder, the three Baudelaire orphans find themselves in the Heimlich Hospital, with the evil Count Olaf in close pursuit.

The misadventures of two terrible old people who enjoy playing nasty tricks and are finally outwitted by a family of monkeys.

Mercy the pig's love of buttered toast leads to the capture of a small thief who would rather be a cowboy.

Told in rhyming text, Brian tries to get his fellow piranhas to try his fruit and vegetable platter, but they all prefer meat--like those human feet dangling in the water.

Luigi the rooster wins fame and fortune when the star of the Cosmopolitan Opera Company and his understudy both come down with chicken pox on the same night.

Adoring her comfortable, broken-in sneakers but acknowledging that her mother and she really need new shoes, young Amelia Bedelia spots a friend's beautiful footwear before tackling the challenge of going shoe-shopping on a shoestring budget.

Dinah, an overfed, pampered housecat, falls out a window and into an unknown world, where she is mistaken for a raccoon, a watermelon, and a tiger before rediscovering her true identity.

Sofia's adventures and disasters continue in this compilation of three previously published books.