Nonbinary fourth-grader Riley learns how hard it is to take care of a dog.

Eddie thought that dragonsitting would be easy. Then Ziggy hides in the linen closet, and Eddie learns that the dragon is keeping a very big secret.

"It's Eddie's birthday! He's looking forward to a party filled with fun, games, and ...dragons? Ziggy and Arthur show up, and their idea of a good time involves eating everything in sight and making a mess of all the magician's tricks. Is Eddie in for the wrong kind of birthday surprise?

When Mickey and Amanda lapse in their cat-sitting duties and Bella the cat is hit by a truck, they replace the cat with a look-alike that causes more trouble than they expected.

Hank pet sits Elmer the very sneaky sheep. Elmer can open doors and escape.

When the Mahoney family hires Henry the Critter Sitter to watch their dog, cat, bird, fish, frog, and snake, he thinks he is up for the challenge since creature control is his game, but the pets have a different idea.

Must Love Pets has a new job: pet sitting three adorable kittens. What Imaan, London, and Olivia don't expect is all the trouble these tiny creatures can get into, from climbing the curtains, to crawling on kitchen counters, and spilling baking supplies everywhere. To get out of the house--and out of Mama's hair--the girls take the kittens to a local farmers' market. There, they meet the world's cutest goat, and the kittens have a ball. At the end...

"Agatha Parrot and her friends babysit a flock of newly-hatched chicks for a back-to-school project"--

Kitty's owners are taking a week off and leaving Kitty and Puppy at home with Uncle Murray. It isn't long before Uncle Murray is driven to near madness by shenanigans of epic proportions.

Penina "Pinky" Bloom is starting a pet-sitting business, which means she has even more cases than usual on her plate: a missing pet, a suspicious pet shop employee, and her dad's strangely silent shofar.