Ann Cameron

Relates episodes in seven-year-old Julian's life which include getting into trouble with his younger brother Huey, planting a garden, what he did to try to grow taller, losing a tooth, and finding a new friend.

When his best friend, Gloria, receives a new bike, seven-year-old Julian spends the summer avoiding her because of his fear of bikes.

Julian and Huey try to find the perfect birthday gift for Dad with amusing results. It's Dad's birthday, and Julian is having a hard time coming up with a special present. He wants it to be something Dad has always dreamed about. But first Julian has to figure out what that is. When he does find out, will he be brave enough to get it? Dad's dream is pretty unusual-not to mention scary. Luckily, Julian has help from Huey and Gloria, and together they...

Called a troublemaker by his human family, a reflective dog defends himself and then relates the family's adoption of an aristocratic but incompetent cat, who gives him a life purpose and and new way of looking at his world.

Gloria shares special times with her mother and father and with her friends Julian, Huey, and Latisha.

A chance meeting with a woman astronaut encourages Gloria to try to be her best self, even with her difficult fourth-grade teacher, Mrs. Yardley.

Huey, his older brother Julian, and their family and friends plant a garden, play basketball, try to get Huey's father to stop smoking, learn about the universe, and more.

Kidnapped when she was very young by an unscrupulous man who has forced her to lie and beg to get money, a twelve-year-old Mayan girl endures an abusive life, always wishing she could return to the parents she can hardly remember.