The Tuck family is confronted with an agonizing situation when they discover that a ten-year-old girl and a malicious stranger now share their secret about a spring whose water prevents one from ever growing any older.

Failing in his career as a pirate, Jack Plank comes ashore to seek other lines of work, each of which also proves unsuitable, but at least he's able to entertain his boardinghouse companions with his occupational exploits.

"Joe Casimir needed help with the choice he had to make. But how do you choose the person who will help you choose? Mr. Boulderwall, the millionaire, knew exactly what he wanted Joe to choose. And millionaires are experts at making choices. Well, aren't they? But Vinnie, the number-two man down at Sope Electric, didn't much approve of millionaires. He said to Joe, 'Listen, kid, all of 'em act like they're the only ones with a ticket to the show!'...

When eleven-year-old Jenny goes to stay with her widowed grandmother who lives by the seaside, she learns a great deal about the nature of love and the ways of the sea.

A collection of twenty-six poems about various subjects such as pandas, steam engines, and icicles.