"New York, 1998, Thanksgiving Day Parade. Kiera Templeton, only three years old, disappears into the crowd. After a frantic search throughout the city, someone finds a few strands of hair along with the clothes the little one was wearing that day. In 2003, the day that would have been Kiera's eighth birthday, her parents, Aaron and Grace Templeton, receive a strange package with something unexpected: a VHS videotape with a one-minute recording of...

Explains precisely why, although it may sound like a good idea, gathering hundreds of pigs to march in a parade through one's hometown is inadvisable.

When Maxine's school puts on a pet parade, she creates a unique contraption to allow her very special pet fish, Milton, to participate.

When Swiper swipes all the special glowing friendship bracelets from friendship parades all over the world, Dora need his help (and yours) to bring them back to France, Tanzania, Russia, and China.

"After returning from her father-in-law's funeral in Florida, Lucy can almost hear the death knell of her part-time reporter job the instant she meets new hire Rob Callahan. He's young, ambitious, and positioning himself to become the Pennysaver's next star reporter. Adding insult to injury, Lucy only gets assigned the local St. Patrick's Day parade once Rob passes on the story. But before beer flows and bagpipes sound, Rob becomes suspected of destroying...

A laugh-out-loud, fully illustrated collection of stories starring Tom Gates and his friends, family and foes! Featuring: a delicious chicken pie; getting stuck in a lift with Delia; a teacher swap at school; some tiny ants in tiny pants and the adventures of Wafer Boy.

After vanishing from the crowd at the 1998 Thanksgiving Day parade in New York City, Kiera Templeton's parents, Aaron and Grace Templeton, receive a package on Kiera's eight birthday in 2003 that only deepens the mystery surrounding what happened after Kiera's disappearance five years earlier.