This wonderful Muggie Maggie Boxset, by Beverly Cleary, contains four books: Emily"s Runaway Imagination, Mitch and Amy, Socks, and Muggie Maggie.Emily"s Runaway ImaginationAdventure is pretty scarce in Pitchfork, Oregon, so Emily keeps herself amused bleaching Dad"s old plow horse and feeding the hogs an occasional treat. Then she decides that Pitchfork needs a library -- and making it happen is the perfect challenge for a girl with a runaway imagination.Mitch and AmyMitch and Amy are always squabbling about something. They think being twins is fun, but that"s about the only thing they have in common -- until the school bully starts picking on Mitch and Amy, too. Now the twins agree about one thing, and they can"t waste any more time fighting with each other.SocksIt was Sock"s lucky day when he went to live with the Brickers. He got all of the attention he wanted. But that was before the Brickers came home with a new baby. Suddenly a crying little bundle is getting all of the attention, and Sock"s feels as if he"s been replaced. What Sock"s doesn"t know is that the baby is getting bigger every day and soon he will be joining Socks in all kinds of fun and mischief!Muggie MaggieWhen Maggie Schultz arbitrarily decides cursive writing is not for her, her rebellion gets her into trouble. Then Maggie becomes the message monitor, but she can"t figure out what the teachers notes say. Suddenly, Maggie finds cursive interesting. How can she read people"s letters if she can"t read cursive?