Ada Twist is a very curious girl who shows perseverance by asking questions and performing experiments to find things out and understand the world.

When Rosie is unable to invent a contraption to help one of Aunt Rose's Raucous Riveters friends, she calls on classmates Iggy Peck and Ada Twist to help.

PJ Harris is horrible at free throws so when a game comes down to PJ's free throws making the difference between win or lose, he freaks.

"When Jayden and his teammates find out there's not going to be a Hoop Group this year--and maybe ever again--they have to learn to lean on each other if they want to save their basketball season"--

Tallulah loves the grace and elegance of ballet and can pirouette perfectly, but at dance camp she struggles to learn tap. Even worse, she can't seem to get along with another girl who loves tap and doesn't like ballet. Can the two find a way to help each other?

"Isaiah is now the big man of the house. But it's a lot harder than his dad made it look. His little sister, Charlie, asks too many questions, and Mama's gone totally silent. Good thing Isaiah can count on his best friend, Sneaky, who always has a scheme for getting around the rules. Plus, his classmate Angel has a few good ideas of her own--once she stops hassling Isaiah. And when things get really tough, there's Daddy's journal, filled with stories...

Sheep and Wolf have a dream--they want to fly like the birds. They try a number of different options, many of which fail, but in the end learn that determination and staying true to one's dream is its own reward.

Young Rosie Revere dreams of becoming an engineer, and finds inspiration in all manner of things others would only see as waste. Her inventions include hot dog dispensers, helium pants, and special hats made of cheese that would repel snakes.

A hungry cat gets a job hunting mice at a sumo training center (heya), but once the mice are gone he continues to stuff himself until he is too fat to chase the mice that have returned--so he decides to train with the sumo wrestlers, and SumoKitty becomes a scourge of mice and an inspiration to the wrestlers.

In 1933, facing the hardships of the Great Depression, Ruth learns to follow her mother's example and count her lucky stars when she turns her disappointment over not being able to attend fourth grade into a blessing for her younger sister.