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Stella Endicott loves her teacher, Miss Liliana, and she is thrilled when the class is assigned to write a poem. Stella crafts a beautiful poem about Mercy Watson, the pig who lives next door -- a poem complete with a metaphor and full of curiosity and courage. But Horace Broom, Stella's irritating classmate, insists that Stella's poem is full of lies and that pigs do not live in houses. And when Stella and Horace get into a shouting match in the...

When a pig named Mercy arrives at the Watsons' front door, she brings love and chaos to their lives.

After Mercy the pig snuggles to sleep with the Watsons, all three awaken with the bed teetering on the edge of a big hole in the floor.

Poppleton the pig goes stargazing, tries out a new bed before he buys it, and goes sailing for the first time.

Having gone home with Maxwell for summer vacation, Fluffy the classroom guinea pig goes swimming, enters a contest, and investigates a jungle.

The reader joins Freddy Fafnaffer the pig as he deals with Mr. Frimdimpny, a crocodile who never laughs and who decides on the rules for reading this book.

When Gerald the Elephant is sad, Piggie is determined cheer him up, but finds after many tries that it only takes the simplest thing to change Gerald's mood.

Olivia does not want her brother to get bigger.

Best friends Elephant and Piggie decide that they will try to surprise each other, with unexpected results.

Rabbit makes a list of the things he loves about Pig, but needs Pig's help deciding what to write.