When Horrible Harry's pet cat, Googer, sneaks a ride and gets into the school building, third-graders Harry and Doug have to catch him before anyone else does, which means going into some forbidden places.
"When his best friend Doug discovers his top-secret hideout, Harry enlists his friends' help to save it from being developed into an apartment building"-- Provided by publisher.
"The kids in Room 3B are asked to draw posters of things that they love, and one of them will get to share his or her poster on TV"-- Provided by publisher.
When the origami pig that Song Lee made for her grandmother is seized by a substitute teacher, the usually well-behaved third-grader breaks a classroom rule to rescue it from the "June box."
Miss Mackle's third graders share December holiday traditions--Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Three Kings Day, and Korean New Year--with each other and with Harry's great grandfather, who has just moved to a nursing home.
Spurred on by the promise of a mystery prize, Harry and Doug are determined to win the most points on Field Day, but Harry's sneaky tactics annoy their competition, making the two boys targets for revenge.
Selected to join the school safety patrol squad, third-grader Mary quickly turns into a bully, and classmate Doug suspects she may be tampering with the book raffle.
Morty Hill worries that his best friend Molly Zander will get in trouble at school when a new classmate tells that Molly is the one who knocked off the principal's toupee.
Mary decides it's all right to cheat to make sure she wins a special lunch with her favorite teacher, but the results of her dishonesty end up surprising the whole second grade class.
Doug discovers that though being Harry's best friend in Miss Mackle's second grade class isn't always easy, as Harry likes to do horrible things, it is often a lot of fun.
Harry's interest in solving mysteries has caught the attention of his classmates in 3B, so he challenges them to discover what he has hidden in a giant, old suitcase.