Carlson, Nancy L

George brags, procrastinates, and offers excuses instead of training for the big race--much to his later embarrassment.

A young girl recounts how she came to be part of an adoptive family.

Arnie doesn't have grandparents to come to school on Grandparents' Day, but it turns out he has a lot of people who can substitute.

Harriet overcomes her stage fright and dances successfully and proudly at her ballet recital.

Harriet feels terrible until she confesses to trampling on a neighbor's garden and ruining a prize dahlia.

Louanne Pig is befriended by the old woman she always believed to be a witch.

Carl's big brother doesn't think it would be easy to be a baby, but he also realizes Carl is lucky to have someone to play with and protect him.

When a family of pigs moves in next door, the rabbit George wants nothing to do with them, but finally he gives in and finds out they aren't so bad after all.

Though she plans to try out for cheerleading, Louanne Pig helps her friend Arnie try out for football, with surprising results.

Harriet decides that her little brother Walt isn't as big a pest as she once thought he was.