"Stella and her family have special plans to celebrate her ninth birthday but everything changes when Stella falls and breaks her leg at school"--

Haley Bombauer, aka Flash Jackson, confronts the summer of her seventeenth year with glorious anticipation. She envisions herself roaming the hillsides and forests on her beloved horse, venturing farther and farther away from her sleepy hometown and her overprotective mother. But when Haley falls through the rotted roof of the barn, she is destined to spend the summer in a thigh-high cast, stuck at home with her mother, enduring visits from her...

A young girl does not heed her mother's warning about jumping on the bed.

"Lulu does not mind having a broken leg while she is the center of attention, but after the newness wears off, it takes a visit from Grandpa and a well-timed letter to set things right." --

"When a broken ankle forces Marion to withdraw from the horse show, she finds a way to stay active by helping her friends at the Critter Club animal shelter find homes for a litter of kittens." --

"Claudia takes a baby-sitting job looking after Betsy, a girl who is known for her practical jokes, and when one of Betsy's pranks results in a broken leg for Claudia, her baby-sitting days may be through"--

Andy asks his mother to tell the story about breaking her arm while they wait for the veterinarian to determine what is wrong with their cat.

When Little Critter breaks his leg in a soccer game, he makes his first trip to the hospital where he meets a doctor and gets his first X-ray and cast.

"Introduces the reader to what happens when someone breaks a bone and how it is treated and cared for"--

Cricket's spring break turns out to be pretty eventful, even though her broken ankle means she cannot go to Washington, D.C. with her best friend as they had planned.