Brokenhearted when her best friend departs for the summer, Ivy spends her own summer caring for animals in the mid-century Southwest, sharing her season of discovery with a stubborn pony, a mischievous puppy, and a scarred racehorse.

Max and his sister Ruby go on an egg hunt and vie with each other for the prize, a chocolate chicken. It's springtime for the unflappable young rabbit and his overbearing big sister. Max can hardly wait to gobble up the chocolate chicken someone left on his birdbath, and Ruby wants to plan an egg hunt. Full color. All Max wants to do is eat the chocolate chicken that someone left in the birdbath one fine spring morning. But "wait, Max," his sister...

During the Depression, Reuben and his out-of-work parents move from Oklahoma to Minnesota, where his father gets a job as a carnival wingwalker and Reuben has a chance to overcome his terror of flying.

Stella is unnerved by a bullying group of weasels who say mean things about her humble home until her mother offers words of comfort and her father drives the trailer to a new location where kind friends are found.

Max and Ruby spend so much on emergencies while shopping for Grandma's birthday presents that they just barely have enough money left for gifts.

In this story based on true events, a treasured wooden chair is passed down from family to family, with each new owner carving the word "welcome" in a new language.

Louise and Ruby use Louise's "Deluxe Beauty Kit" to give Max a make-over, but when Grandma calls to schedule her own make-over, she makes an appointment with Max.

When Ruby asks Max to help her collect leaves for a school project, he demonstrates other uses for fallen leaves.

Despite his sister Ruby's admonitions, Max waits up on Christmas Eve to see Santa Claus coming down the chimney.