Karen's plans for a joyous Christmas holiday—baking cookies, decorating the tree—are ruined when her grandmother becomes seriously ill, an event that causes Karen to make her biggest Christmas wish ever

Super Special #2 takes Karen on her first plane trip, but this isn't just any plane trip. Karen is flying alone and she's going to visit her grandparents' farm in Nebraska for the first time.

When Karen's Dad loses his glasses, Karen and David Michael decide to play detectives and spend the rest of the day solving mysteries. Then Karen decides to start her own detective agency. Soon Karen discovers her pet rat Emily is missing. Can Karen's detective agency find her?

Karen and her best friends Hannie and Nancy call themselves the Three Musketeers. They do everything together. And now that it's summer, they have big plans to play, play, play! But then Hannie and Nancy make plans without Karen. And Karen is mad. Really mad. What happened to the Three Musketeers?

At first Karen is envious of her friend, Nancy, when she learns that Nancy's mother is about to give Nancy a new baby sister, but her feelings are mollified when Nancy offers to share the baby with her. Original.

When she goes to sleep-away camp, Karen thinks she is an expert at camping until her cabin spends a night sleeping in the woods, and she realizes that she has a lot to learn