Eleven-year-old Bobby Cole and his dog Chilly are best friends, living happily in their Southern California beach house. But when his father, a single parent and police detective, accepts a job in New York City, they must find Chilly a new home. In an attempt to show his dad that Chilly can be a city dog, Bobby and his friends teach Chilly the indoor way of life. Will Chilly be able to stay?

Some mild thematic elements. Just before his thirteenth birthday, Jeremy Fink receives a keyless locked box--set aside by his father before his death five years earlier--that purportedly contains the meaning of life.

When Greg Heffley's dad threatens to send him to military school if he doesn't stay out of trouble, Greg finds all-new ways to land himself in the doghouse! For starters, Greg's in over his head when he pretends to work at the swanky country club where Rowley's family has a membership. Things don't go much better on a father-son camping trip with the Wilderness Explorers, and then there's the Heffley's new dog, Sweetie, who fetches even more trouble...

After the murder of his father, a young lion prince flees his kingdom only to learn the true meaning of responsibility and bravery.

Diary of a Wimpy kid 1: Greg Heffley is surely headed for big things, but first he has to survive the scariest, most humiliating experience of any kid's life, middle school! That won't be easy, considering he's surrounded by hairy-freckled morons, wedgie-loving bullies and a moldy slice of cheese with nuclear cooties! Diary of a Wimpy kid 2: Having rid himself of the cheese touch, Greg enters the seventh grade with his confidence and friendships...