When best friends Chad and Oliver step into a book, Chad becomes trapped in the cavernous binding until a friendly librarian comes to the rescue.

Young penguins Jackson and Quigley, code-named Secret Agent 00Zero and Special Agent Q, compete in the Golden Egg Games while also seeking a criminal who escaped from the Frosty Bureau of Investigation.

When law-abiding, mild-mannered bank manager Cosmo Topper buys a secondhand car, he finds it haunted by its reckless, frivolous previous owners, George and Marion Kerby. The ghostly couple make it their mission to rescue Topper from his drab lifestyle by creating a series of madcap adventures.

"Sent as an exchange student to a rival school, a hapless warlock-in-training struggles to live up to his great and terrible destiny"-- Provided by publisher.

"Birdie wants a very expensive soccer ball but has no money, so she starts selling dirt and learns some important lessons along the way." -- (Source of summary not specified)

A little boy imagines all the things he will be able to open once he gets bigger, but for now he needs his parents' help.

"One bright Los Angeles day, a young Polish émigrée named Viva is driving along the freeway when she's flagged down by a dazzling, disheveled woman in green chiffon. The woman is Bobby Sleeper, a fellow Eastern European and erstwhile art gallerist with a mysterious background and even more mysterious filmmaker husband. Within days the couple hire Viva as their assistant, then enlist her as an accomplice in an improbable scheme involving a long-lost...

Romantic Barbara helps her down-to-earth sister with her wedding plans.

"Oh, let's do it!" say Kitty and Katy and Mom when a thousand-piece jigsaw puzzle mysteriously arrives in the mail. "I have time on my hands," agrees Dad. Starting in winter with the edges, by autumn they're almost done, only to discover that one piece is missing. Mom is sure that it must have accidentally gone out with the trash, so the Kellys pile into the car to comb through the local dump ("shouldn't take long"). There they uncover forgotten letters,...

"A madcap story of female friendship, language, and power, from France to colonial America to the moon, from 1775 to this very moment, Adam Thirlwell's The Future Future is a historical novel like no other"-- Provided by publisher.