Emily Jenkins

Six stories relate the adventures of three best friends, who happen to be toys.

The lives of two dogs change after a new animal, a baby, comes to their house.

When a little girl gets a plush stingray for her birthday, it makes friends with some of her other toys as they all try to navigate in the world of real people.

In words and pictures, a girl describes the three humans and two cats that live in her house, and details some of the traits that they share.

"What will Harry Bergen-Murphy do when he braves first grade? Day 1: Find a friend. Day 15: Make an enemy. Day 40: Learn how to be a shark. Day 48: Distract a bully. Day 56: Avoid Goblin, the scary guinea pig. Day 99: Finish the world's most awesome one-hundredth-day-of-school project ever, before morning. Nothing can go wrong. Right? Harry is ready -- but he's a little nervous! In the first one hundred days of school, he will do all of the above...

Nory, Bax, and their friends are in a special class at Dunwiddle Magic School, a class for children whose magic is unpredictable -- and while Nory is finding an outlet for her dritten-self (a combination of a kitten and dragon), in the kittenball team, Bax is worried because all he can do is turn into a rock, and nobody knows why.

Dory and her friends from Ms. Starr's Upside-Down Magic class set off on an overnight school field trip to Dragon Haven to see, and learn how to care for, dragons -- unfortunately there are other students with regular magic there as well, so it is not long before the trouble starts.

When Willa's Upside-Down Magic rains, it pours. Clouds form under ceilings. Classrooms get flooded. Umbrellas must always be nearby, just in case Willa has an outburst. Willa hates being the source of such sogginess. Even worse, the more she rains, the badder she feels ... and the badder she feels, the more she rains. All the storminess is threatening to drown her good grades and flood all her friendships. Is there any way to use magic to make the...