Sammy enters a contest hoping to win a bike or baseball bat and is surprised to find he wins the grand prize - a hot-air balloon ride. (He's scared of heights.) With his sister's company and encouragement he's able to find the courage to get in the balloon.
This story takes place in the future! Anna spent the summer helping her grandfather turn cow manure into fuel to help save the planet. But will she be too embarrassed to tell her new fifth grade class about her summer?
Stanley brings in a variety of exotic pets for show-and-tell and thinks his snail will be safe and boring. But then it picks up a marker and shows that it knows how to write!
Farmer Johnson's cows enjoy clogging, but the farmer wants them to win a blue ribbon in the dairy competition. The cows don't place, but they sweep the amateur talent competition and blow Farmer Johnson away with their talent.
In reading the introduction in a book of magic tricks, Rabbit accidentally casts a spell on himself. With some reasoning, he figures out how to remove the spell.
