"Identical twins Ling and Ting celebrate their birthday by sharing gifts and making wishes"--

Katie's dad surprises her with a trip to a ranch where she can ride a real horse.

Katie loves being the best dancer in her dance class, so when Mattie joins the class and begins to outshine her, Katie is jealous.

Katie is enrolled in a gymnastics class, but when she has trouble doing some of the moves she gets discouraged and considers dropping out.

Katie Woo wants to learn an instrument, but she is having trouble deciding what kind of music suits her best.

When Jake loses his brand new toy airplane, Katie Woo lies and says that she does not know where it is.

Katie Woo learns different ways to cope with the death of her dog.

On Chinese New Year's Eve, a poor man who works for the richest businessman in Beijing sends his son to market to trade their last few eggs for a bag of rice, but instead he brings home an empty--but magic--wok that changes their fortunes forever. Includes information about Chinese New Year and a recipe for fried rice.

Ruby Lu's father loses his job on her first day of third grade, which causes many things in her life to change, and she is willing to do a lot to help out but giving up some things seems impossible.

Katie's friends have come for a sleepover, and telling a scary story seems like a good idea--until she has a dream about a monster under her bed, and she wakes up to find her lucky kimono missing.