Hank struggles through the ups and downs of friendship and the circle of life when he has a fight with Frankie and his sister's iguana lays forty-five eggs in their cable box.

A pet fly searches for his favorite brown, oozy, lumpy, smelly food.

"Octopuses make the best pets! Pretend pirate captain Izzy is looking for a pet when an adventurous little octopus squiggles into town"--

A pampered monkey living with a dressmaker in New Orleans, Louisiana, begins to act like a wild animal and must be taken to the zoo.

"Billy is a grumpy boy who's not like the other kids. His mother takes him and his sister, Sara, to the animal shelter one Saturday in hope of cheering him up. But the pets he sees are too happy for his taste. Then he finds the grumpy pets..."--

"Frankie Sparks, the self-proclaimed 'best inventor in the third grade,' does research and creates a tool to try to persuade her classmates that a rat would make the best class pet."--Publisher's description.

A boy's mother, reluctant to allow him even one pet, is increasingly unhappy as each pet wants a pet of its own.

A boy is excluded from joining his friends' pet club because of his unusual pet.

Jasmine makes a wish for a pet flamingo on the special daruma doll her grandmother sent from Japan, then sets out to prove herself responsibile enough for a pet.

When Clyde gets excited, he turns into a monkey. His twin sister, Claudia, is always trying to calm him down, especially at school. The principal does not like a monkey loose in the building. But when Clyde and Claudia get a surprise new neighbor, Clyde will come closer than ever to being caught.