Bob sets out on a dangerous journey in search of his long-lost sister with the help of his two best friends, Ivan and Ruby. As a hurricane approaches and time is running out, Bob finds courage he never knew he had and learns the true meaning of friendship and family.

Gerald the elephant is certain that he cannot dance but his friend Piggie convinces him to try.

In 1975 after American troops pull out of Vietnam, a thirteen-year-old boy and his beloved elephant escape into the jungle when the Viet Cong attack his village.

Piggie tells Gerald she has a surprise for him, but it is not there yet so Gerald must be patient.

Elephant Gerald and Piggie want to go for a drive, but as Gerald thinks of one thing after another that they will have to take along, they come to realize that they lack the most important thing of all.

When ten-year-old orphan Peter Augustus Duchene encounters a fortune teller in the marketplace one day and she tells him that his sister, who is presumed dead, is in fact alive, he embarks on a remarkable series of adventures as he desperately tries to find her.

Friends Elephant and Piggie are playing outside when it starts to rain, and then they must decide what to do.

Gerald is tired and cranky and wants to take a nap, but Piggie is not helping.

"Developed by literacy experts and educators for students in PreK through grade two, this book introduces beginning readers to elephant calves through simple, predictable text and related photos"--

When Piggie discovers that she and Gerald are in a book and she can make the reader say a funny word out loud, Gerald is tickled pink, but they being to wonder what will happen when the story is over.