Hank has never been fond of his sister's pet iguana, and their relationship worsens when she lays her eggs inside his science project.

His younger brother Fudge's obsession with money and an unexpected encounter with twin cousins Flora and Fauna and a weird younger cousin also named Farley Drexel Hatcher, just like Fudge, provide many embarrassing moments for twelve-year-old Peter.

A giant chicken hatches from an enormous egg, but the other chickens cannot accept that he is one of them.

Amelia Bedelia follows to the letter the list of instructions for looking after the Lanes' baby.

When Amelia Bedelia wakes up with a fever, she passes the time learning about weather, resting, and eating some chicken soup.

A.J. and his classmates are convinced that the new school librarian, Mrs. Roopy, has multiple personality disorder because she keeps pretending to be famous people.

Because of a recent string of embarrassing behavior, Kitty's cat license has been revoked and she must take a test to get it back so she can still be a cat.

Nolan is delighted to find a stray backhoe and, after naming it Joe and persuading it to follow him home, he sets out to train it so that his parents will let him keep Joe as his very own.

Follows a young Rube Goldberg from morning until night as he uses one complicated invention after another to "simplify" his life.

Down on their luck, the Tooting family buys an old camper van and begins repairing it, but after installing an engine that once belonged to an extraordinary car, they are off to find other original parts, pursued by a sinister man who wants Chitty for himself.