Cañon City Public Library

While walking to school, lugging a heavy backpack through New York City one morning, a disgruntled child questions why babies are so lazy, spending their days on useless activities such as napping and babbling rather than getting jobs.

Magic Pickle, a fearless, dill superhero, comes to the rescue when Jo Jo's class garden yields a monstrous lettuce plant bent on world domination.

In London, England, twelve-year-old Joe discovers that his grandmother is not just physically repulsive and horribly mean, she is also involved in an evil plot against him, but the adults around them fail to see behind her mask.