Turtle and Snake go to the beach, where they and some other animals participate in a sandcastle-making contest.

When the children in Mr. Wright's class have a field day, nouns and verbs in the classroom make their own fun.

Princess Calla Tuoleimi plans to take down her family’s monarchy but must decide between her kingdom or her new lover. Inspired by Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra, Immortal Longings is a fiery collision of power plays, spilled blood, and romance amidst a set of deadly games.

While mouseking Geronimo Stiltonord is struggling to select the winner of the Shield Mouselet Mega Challenge, dragons launch a surprise attack.

Twelve-year-old Lennie Mercado's grandfather, the current Prime Wizard of Pomporromp, is retiring and decides to host a tournament for Lennie and her cousins to compete to win his title, land, position, castle, and unlimited magical powers, but when Poppop introduces new rules to eliminate sibling rivalry, Lennie decides the games are unfair and makes plans to sabotage the event.

To ensure her family's survival, sixteen-year-old Koral cheats her way into the Glory Race, a dangerous chariot tournament using sea monsters meant for the ruling elite.

When the high-strung judge who tried to eliminate Lupe, a friend of Melanie and Angie, from the Sweet Tiara beauty pageant turns up dead, Mel and Angie investigate in order to clear Lupe's name.

Del is excited to leave small town America to compete in a perfume competition in Paris. What started out as just a dream for Del and her twin sister is nearly in her grasp. If she wins this competition, they are on their way to opening their very own perfume boutique! As the competition dawns Del realises that whilst she might have had the best nose in her small village, her competitors seem to know more than she could ever have dreamed. This competition...

Best friends and dog lovers Kate and Lucie live in apartments where dogs are not allowed, but a pair of unusual necklaces they find in a thrift store allow them to become dogs whenever they wish.

The author describes her mother Evelyn's struggles with poverty in the 1950s as she tried to build a happy home for her ten children, with the help of wit, poetry, and prose during the contest era of the 1950s and 1960s.