"Click-Clack Waddle[-Waddle] Dot[-Dot] Dewey Dew from Planet Eight Hundred Seventy-Two Point Nine does not want to go to school--not on his planet, and definitely not on Planet Earth at Mrs. Brightsun's School for Little Learners. Everything on Earth is different. His clothes don't fit right, his classmates don't look like him, and even Earth noises sound weird"--

Dewey is starting to love life on Earth but struggles with the language, which is made more difficult when a classmate teases him about the fact that he cannot, hard as he tries, pronounce the word love.

When a little girl finds herself in a nightmare filled with snarling beasties, she must find a way to show the group of monsters that she is the boss of her dreams.

When Saya's mother is sent to jail as an illegal immigrant, she sends her daughter a cassette tape with a song and a bedtime story, which inspires Saya to write a story of her own--one that just might bring her mother home.