In these three tales Bertie turns a pink birthday party into a mess, faces and fails the challenge of being polite for an entire day (fortunately), and mistakes his mother's flower arrangement for garbage.

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Franklin and his friends love to play games, but one day when he becomes too bossy he learns it is more fun to be a good sport.

Eight-year-old EllRay's father has promised a family trip to Disneyland if EllRay can stay out of trouble for a week, but not defending himself against Jared, the class bully, proves to be a real challenge.

Rafe, an imaginative teenager, is tired of his school's obsession with rules at the expense of any and all creativity. Desperate to shake things up, he and his best friends have come up with a plan to break every single rule in the school and let the students run wild.

The visit of the traveling Preacher Man to his small North Carolina town gives new impetus to thirteen-year-old Peter's struggle to reconcile his own deeply felt religious belief with the beliefs and non-beliefs of his family and friends.

Claire and her stuffed rabbit, Fluffy, wake up happy but one thing goes wrong after another until, finally, Claire and Fluffy are both very, very angry.

While Violet, a really naughty chicken, is visiting her grandmother again for the summer, she convinces Elinor to do things that upset Elinor's mother and sisters, but Elinor does prove to have a mind of her own.

Describes a principle-centered approach to time management called the Quadrant II organizing process, designed to help people close the gap between what they feel is important and the way they really spend their time.

Bobo, banished to the doghouse by Mrs. Birdhead for bad behavior, gets a little help from Cat who gives Bobo some lessons in how to be a good dog.