When Jake wants to go to school his family are HORRIFIED. School is all rotten rules and terrible ten-legged teachers. Pirates don’t go to school! Or do they? A fantastically funny tale, perfect to reassure ‘first day at school’ nerves.
Being popular means everything to Hannah. At least she's worked out a way to make the top girls in grade five like her. But are their demands too much for her?
Sarah desperately wants a horse for her birthday. She'll call it Treacle and they will go everywhere together. But as the presents for her birthday pile up, Sarah begins to act like a horse - galloping and stamping and whinnying.
Brenda wants to go on an interplanetary cultural exchange, organised by her school. This would mean that while Brenda spent a week on the curious-looking Planet of the Beezee Birds, her family would host a Beezeeian kid! While Brenda investigates the native diet of white jellies and nose biscuits and learns how to play mugboo, the alien Donk discovers chocolate and playing in treehuts!