"Rodeo Red and her hound dog, Rusty, are happy as can be until Side Swiping Slim comes to town and starts stirring up trouble for them, but when Slim steals Rusty, Red will do anything to get him back--even give up the birthday gift her Aunt Sal, a city slicker, sent." -- Verso.

Mrs. Green tells her students that they're going to have a class pet! Hubie's imagination goes wild. Will the new class pet have fangs, horns, or headlights? Will it be vicious? Who knows what kind of monster Mrs. Green will bring in? Hubie's worst fears are nearly realized, when Mrs. Green brings in a big cage. What could be inside?

"Jack and Ella are thrilled to take a friendly lion as their pet, but when Leopold the Lion grows chubby and despondent, they must seek a way to make him healthy again." --

In this cumulative story, Mrs. Teapot's new pets prove to be unsuccessful mouse catchers.

Kayla's cat, Daisy, is missing. Kayla is so worried. She calls her friends, and soon enough the entire Pet Club is on the case.

"When a cave boy gets a 'puppy, ' things don't quite turn out as he expected." --

"Bixby Alexander Tam (nicknamed Bat) has been the caretaker for Thor, the best skunk kit in the world...but the last day of third grade is quickly approaching, and Thor is almost ready to be released into the wild. The end of school also means that Bat has to say good-bye to his favorite teacher, and he worries about the summer care of Babycakes, their adorable class pet. Not only that, but his best friend is leaving for a long vacation in Canada....

Although his father has forbidden it, Ernie, a twelve-year-old business tycoon, makes a tidy profit in the pet funeral business, but when he refuses to give his star employee a raise and the business starts to fall apart, it takes the death of his own dog to bring everyone back together.

"Persuading your family that you want a pet is never easy, but even more so when it is an octopus!"--Amazon.

Prudence wants a pet so much that she adopts a branch, a twig, a tire, and even a shoe named Formal Footwear, but none is a suitable pet for Prudence.