Broccoli is a big, noisy dog at Beezley's Animal Shelter who desperately wants to be adopted--but it seems like his loud bark and his trick of throwing his water dish in the air and catching it are not working.

Fifth-grader Anna is concerned that her baby sister Kaylee, adopted from China three months ago, is not thriving so she and her best friends, Laura and Camille, create a science project that may save the day.

At Greenglass House, a smuggler's inn, twelve-year-old Milo, the innkeepers' adopted son, plans to spend his winter holidays relaxing but soon guests are arriving with strange stories about the house sending Milo and Meddy, the cook's daughter, on an adventure.

Emma finds out how hard it is to be a big sister when her family adopts a four-year-old boy named Max.

Michael Morn is a supervillain-in-training and the adoptive son of the brilliant criminal mastermind whose sense of right and wrong is thrown into question when a new superhero arrives in town.

Twelve-year-old Milo is stuck spending the winter holidays in a house full of strange guests who are not what they seem-again! He will have to work with friends old and new to uncover clues in search of a mysterious map and a famous smuggler's lost haul. -- Provided by publisher.

In order to stay in the warm and cozy home he has longed for, Shoe Dog must learn to stop chewing shoes.

"A dog who insists she is a wolf finds the perfect home with a young girl who sees past her prickly personality"-- Provided by publisher.