Ralph runs away looking for freedom but winds up a prisoner at a summer camp.

Ramona at 7 1/2 sometimes feels discriminated against by being the youngest in the family.

Ramona's job is to be nice to fussy Mrs. Kemp, who watches her while her mother works.

In his letters to his favorite author, ten-year-old Leigh reveals his problems in coping with his parents' divorce, being the new boy in school, and generally finding his own place in the world.

Before you enter Wayside School, you should know that it's a thirty-story building with one classroom on each floor. Mrs. Jewls teaches the class on the thirtieth story. Miss Zarves teaches the class on the nineteenth story--except there is no nineteenth story, so there is no Miss Zarves. Understand? Good. Explain it to Calvin. More than fifteen million readers have laughed at the clever and hilarious stories of Wayside School. So what are you waiting...

Ragweed, a young country mouse, leaves his family and travels to the big city, where he finds excitement and danger and sees cats for the first time.