A raccoon community is faced with a reduced garbage and natural-food supply.

This story is a thousand years older than the familiar Cinderella story.

A rabbit, dissatisfied with the tail that nature gave him, assumes the tails of other animals.

A boy named Billy bets that he can eat a worm a day for 15 days.

Zucchini, a rare black-footed ferret, escapes from the zoo he was born in to look for his real home on the prairie.

Hank the Cowdog, the intrepid head of ranch security, faces a challenge from a chicken killer on the loose.

Walter Fozbek wakes up in a world inhabited by dinosaurs where humans have been extinct for a million years.

The first known case of ""Chocolate Fever"" occurs in a boy who dotes on the stuff and suddenly breaks out in little brown spots.

A bonded orphan on a distant planet vows to earn his freedom by training a dragon to be a champion fighter.

""Arnold of the Ducks"" is a lost boy who is found by ducks and reared as their own.

The story of a slightly imperfect older-model robot owned by a family that can't afford a newer mechanical butler.

A 12-year-old girl adopts a stray cat, unaware that the animal is on a mission to train her as a good witch, the only one born in this century.

""The Pig Plantagenet"" organizes his fellow creatures into a stampede when they are faced with extermination by the lord of a nearby mansion.

""Harry the Fat Bear Spy"" is ordered to find out why all the macaroons in Bearmania are coming out green, a task fraught with light-hearted danger.

""Hugh Pine"" is a porcupine who, unlike his fellow porcupines, learns how not to get run over while crossing roads.

Three street-smart mice are stymied by an evil cat as they try to rescue twin mice who disappeared in the perilous Windberry Lot.

""Twist it once, you're horned and haired; Twist it twice and fangs are bared; Twist it thrice? No one has dared!"" Russell is sure that the ring is just a silly magic trick, but he follows the instructions and twists the ring twice anyway - and becomes a monster!