Three female students from Ashbury High write to three male students from rival Brookfield High as part of a pen pal program, leading to romance, humiliation, revenge plots, and war between the schools.

Alex and his mother write notes back and forth in which Alex tries to persuade her to let him have a baby iguana for a pet.

In a series of letters, a fourteen-year-old convent school student who never knew her mother and resents her father, grapples with her belief that God has chosen her to give birth to a prophet.

A teacher travels around the world viewing animals in their natural habitats and writes back to her class about her findings.

In this letter to his parents, Squiggle assures them that he is being good; but the pictures show what really happened when he and his cousins visited the Luxembourg Gardens.

Nick wishes for some pink mail addressed just to him, and his sister helps make it happen.

A series of letters describe the actions of Goldilocks, Peter Rabbit, the Three Pigs, Little Red Hen, and other storybook characters when Little Red Hen and her chicks become the target of the unsavory Wolf and his cousin, Fer O'Cious.

Jenny is discouraged when her second grade penpal turns out to be a new student from Saudi Arabia who does not speak English very well, but as she works with her they slowly become friends.