The author of "11 Birthdays" delivers once again with this humorous, touching, and abundantly charming novel about a girl who has been waiting her whole life to turn 12. After her twelfth birthday, Rory checks off a list of things she is finally allowed to do, but unexpected consequences interfere with her involvement in the movie being shot at her school, while a weird prediction starts to make sense.

When she discovers the price of the coveted clubhouse, ten-year-old Piper and her fellow Gypsy Club members try to earn the money by creating a birthday-party-planning business.

Peter wants to invite Amy to his birthday party but he wants it to be a surprise.

After rushing through the snow to get to their friend's birthday party, two mice realize that they forgot to bring the present.

After a difficult year, Mallory plans a month-long celebration of her ninth birthday in hopes that her next year will be wonderful.

Zoya wants to give her dog Coco a birthday present, and with her mother's help finally settles on painting his bowl gold, with lots of glitter.

Goodly, Lovely, Angel, Neatly, and Perfect have spent weeks planning the perfect party to celebrate Tacky's hatchday, and while nothing turns out quite as they expected, the penguins and their special guest have a wonderful time.

Having gone to sea as a cook on a nineteenth-century fishing schooner, Ned thinks that if he uses up all the salt on board he will get to return home in time for his ninth birthday.

Alex, whose birthday it is, hijacks a story about Birthday Bunny on his special day and turns it into a battle between a supervillain and his enemies in the forest--who, in the original story, are simply planning a surprise party.

Mr. Putter thinks he is too old to celebrate his birthday, but when he remembers some of his past birthdays, he changes his mind.