With the help of his friends--and one large discarded box--Joey turns his love of collecting into a tzedakah, or act of charity, for the local food pantry.

"Some people collect stamps. Some people collect coins. Some people collect art. And Jerome? Jerome collected words....Jerome discovers the magic of the words all around him--short and sweet words, two-syllable treats, and multisyllable words that sound like little songs. Words that connect, transform, and empower." --shop.Scholastic.com

Rocket the dog is excited about the 100th day of school and enlists the help of his friends to collect one hundred special things to bring to class, from heart-shaped stones found with Mr. Barker to feathers Owl provides, but will he find enough items in time?

Tara, a self-proclaimed shrinking violet, tries to break out of her shell by stealing the school mascot, a goat, but she gets caught and is shipped off for the summer to stay with relatives in the quirky town of Willow Falls, which she decides is as good a place as any to reinvent herself.

When Grace takes boxes of old buttons from a building her grandfather bought, she starts a fad at school that draws her closer to one friend, but further from another.

When Max cuts out words from magazines and newspapers, collecting them the way his brothers collect stamps and coins, they all learn about words, sentences, and storytelling.

On a backpacking trip with her aunt and uncle, a young girl collects rocks while hiking in the forest, by the river, and at the lake, but when her pack becomes too heavy too carry, she finds the perfect solution.

Ruby and Violet Mutch, a matched pair, have always collected things in pairs, but when their house will no longer hold everything, Ruby packs her things and moves out.

A bear sees that humans fill their garages, or "caves," with things and he decides to do the same, until there is no room for him to even move around in his cave home.

"Eleven-year-old Mabel Cunningham is a quiet loner who only feels free to be herself when she's 'extreme treasure hunting' with her grampa - much to her perfectionist mother's disapproval. Nothing excites Mabel more than discovering a heart find, an item that calls to her heart, and the maybes that come along with it. But when her friendships start to crumble and her grampa suffers a stroke, Mabel quickly learns that real-life maybes are harder to...