Carly Hunter is chosen to take the class guinea pig home for the weekend, just in time for Groundhog Day. Tired of winter, she decides to test Piggy's skill for weather-telling.Can Piggy guess the beginning of spring? Will he see his shadow?When the Cul-de-sac Kids hear of Carly's experiment, they join in--and bring their pets. But with all the crew on Blossom Hill Lane there for the party, can trouble be far away?

Claudia's loving the October weather and her many friends, both in school and in the BSC. But when she throws a party to bring her two groups of pals together, she creates more problems that she solves.

While preparing special food for her class's last-day-of-school party, Miss Birmbaum, the toughest teacher in town, has a strange accident which makes her shrink.

It's Christmastime for Pookie! And that means a walk in the snow, and company coming.

Sister Bear is distressed that things don't go quite right at her birthday party.

In this rhythmic cumulative tale Rosa Maria spends the week getting ready for her granddaughter's birthday party and trying to avoid attracting mice--unaware that the mice in her walls are preparing for a party of their own.

Two sisters don't want to go the the annual family summer party, but after they get there, they have so much fun they do not want to leave.

Thomas the train engine thinks that all the other engines are too busy to help him celebrate his birthday, but he is in for a surprise.

An elephant's eleventh birthday party is marked by eleven games preceding the banquet to be eaten at the eleventh hour; but when the time to eat arrives, the birthday feast has disappeared. The reader is invited to guess the thief. The solution is provided in a sealed end section.

When lonely Miss Spider tries to host a tea party, the other bugs refuse to come for fear of being eaten!