Contains a collection of twelve short stories by author O. Henry, including "The Cop and the Anthem," in which a homeless man named Soapy tries to get arrested so that he can procure shelter for the winter in a nearby jail.
The pressure is on when Hank Zipzer is chosen as pitcher for the softball team at Public School 87's annual Olympiad, the most anticipated day of the school year.
Cooperatively writing a fairy tale for school, a girl imagines a beautiful princess whose beloved ponies are being stolen by a giant, and a boy conjures up the muscular biker who will guard the last pony in exchange for gold.