After losing running, climbing, throwing, and burping competitions to her obnoxious older brother, a young girl makes a wish on a falling star. After losing running, climbing, throwing, and burping competitions to his obnoxious older brother, a young boy makes a wish on a falling star.

A brother and sister's constant attempts to outdo each other land them in a sticky situation.

"Cal has always lived in the shadow of his brother, Frank, a complicated narcissist who was doted upon by their mother and beloved by the girls in their hometown-including Cal's own girlfriends. In an attempt to escape Frank's insidious presence, Cal pursues a different kind of freedom in the world's wild spaces, prospecting for gold and precious minerals everywhere from the heat of the desert at the Mexican border to the Alaskan chill to the suffocating...

Feeling lonely when her family returns to school and work at the end of the summer, pirate Dalmatian Poppy turns mutinous in the face of a kitten that has been adopted to keep her company.

Eight-year-old Mallory feels left out when her older brother, Max, gets a dog that becomes the center of attention.

Maureen and Wendy are sisters, and just like all sisters, they have their moments when they get along and other moments when they are like oil and water, which is a lot of fun to witness. Little sister Maureen has a new mission in life: to find a real life four leaf clover. Maureen has also taken up a new habit of fibbing. When she tells everyone about her fake cousin from Canada who lives in a castle and her other fake cousin who works with pop sensation...

Chester Raccoon is worried that his mother does not have enough love for both him and his new baby brother.

Jealous of his brother, Early Bird, who always gets the worm, Speed Bump embarks on an adventure with his best friend Slingshot.

Third-grader Clementine tries to adjust to the news that her perfect family of four is adding a new brother or sister.

Having dreamed of sailing to Bongadongo since the day his younger brother was adopted, a boy finally has his means of escape but cannot make use of it without his brother's help.