Sara and James imagine a puffing steam train rushing past their farm.

When Lola is worried about starting school, her older brother Charlie reassures her.

The Garcia family is spending a summer weekend at the beach, having a wonderful time playing in the water, and discovering the sand dollars and other small creatures that live along the shore.

The shortest kid in the second grade, James Moody, also known as Stink, learns all about the shortest president of the United States, James Madison, when they celebrate Presidents' Day at school. Every morning, Judy Moody measures Stink and it's always the same: three feet, eight inches tall. Stink feels like even the class newt is growing faster than he is. Then, one day, the ruler reads-can it be?-three feet, seven and three quarters inches! Is...