Shelley Swanson Sateren

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While practicing gymnastics with his friend Zoe, Max cuts his leg and must get stitches.

Max learns the importance of keeping his desk clean, with help from his friend Zoe.

Twins Alfie and Alfreeda are charged with getting Molly the West Highland white terrier fully groomed in time for her owner's wedding, where she will wear a collar bearing the wedding rings--the trouble is that Molly hates being groomed and has apparently buried the collar somewhere at the Hound Hotel.

Max is planning to surprise his mother with breakfast in bed on Mother's Day, but he does not know how to start the stove.

Twins Alfie and Alfreeda are trying to cope with Freddie, a beagle who is terrified of thunder during a particularly stormy week at the Hound Hotel--and Alfie is astonished realize that his normally bossy sister shares Freddie's fear.

Alfie Wolfe and his twin sister Alfreeda enjoy helping out at the family's Hound Hotel--but this time they have very different ideas about what to do with a Yorkshire terrier suffering from separation anxiety.

Alfie Wolfe's dislike of baths, and his habit of wearing shoes without socks, has resulted in a case of stinky feet--but they may be just the thing to keep Stanley, a Labrador retriever with a fondness for dead fish, from trying to run away from the Hound Hotel.

Darcy is a Ragdoll cat who has come to stay at Tabby Towers while his young human, Joy, is in the hospital for heart surgery; but he is clearly miserable, and soon escapes to run back home--so Tabitha, her grandmother, and their super-annoying, dog-lovingneighbor Alfreeda smuggle Darcy into the hospital for a visit with Joy.

After Max and Zoe quarrel over who will sit with Anna at the peanut-free table, they look for a solution that will make everybody happy.