Judith Viorst

On a day when everything goes wrong for him, Alexander is consoled by the thought that other people have bad days too.

Angry Alexander refuses to move away if it means having to leave his favorite friends and special places.

After eating an entire box of doughnuts leads to consequences Alexander does not like, he decides to be the best boy ever for the rest of his life.

A little brother thinks of the ways he will some day get revenge on his older brother.

This is a romp - the comic, over-the-top story of Brenda Kovner, a middle-aged, middle-class married woman who tells us, in the first paragraph and in the first person, that, though she is not the murdering kind, "I am planning to kill Mr. Monti because he is doing harm to my family." Unlikely? Well, she also tells us she isn't the kind to sleep with three different men within twenty-four hours. "And since I indeed did do that, I might indeed be able...

Although Alexander and his money are quickly parted, he comes to realize all the things that can be done with a dollar.

"Lulu is sent to Camp Sisterhood to learn how to be a big sister, but she makes it her mission to be the worst sister-in-training in camp history"--