Sixteen-year-old Bridget Bloom has to find a new way to shine when she is challenged not to sing for an entire year by her prestigious Broadway-pipeline boarding school's dean.

Sixteen-year-old Slade dreams of being a singing sensation but as the middle daughter of a mayoral candidate and a habitual loner she faces many challenges as she learns just how difficult surviving as an artist can be.

Sid sings a long song that drives Sam crazy.

As spring arrives on Gardam Street, there are surprises in store for each Penderwick, from neighbour Nick Geiger's expected return from the war to Batty's new dog-walking business, but her plans to use her profits to surprise her family on her eleventh birthday go astray. Includes excerpt from author's final book in the same series, "The Penderwicks at last" at the end of the book.

"It's the start of Jordan Sun's junior year at the Kensington-Blaine Boarding School for the Performing Arts. Unfortunately, she's an Alto 2, which-in the musical theatre world-is sort of like being a vulture in the wild: She has a spot in the ecosystem, but nobody's falling over themselves to express their appreciation. So it's no surprise when she gets shut out of the fall musical for the third year straight. But then the school gets a mass email:...

Sunny and the others prepare to perform in the school Spring Sing.

As a middle school girl trying to decide whether to audition for the choir which might perform at Carnegie Hall, the reader determines the outcome of the story by taking personality quizzes interspersed throughout the text.

Delores is upset when her friends are chosen to sing in the chorus, but she finds a way to become part of the performance.

Wendy, a young blue whale, ventures into the deep in search of a singing teacher for her brother and herself. Alternating pages provide facts about different types of whales.

Singing before a musical conductor, animals from chicken to owl reveal their own special sounds.