An elephant with her own cottage, living in your backyard, should be the best thing ever for a kid, right? Maybe for every other kid on the planet but not for Scout. Well, she's fun, but then there is the wild and the crazy to deal with, not to mention the gigantic temper tantrums. Ellie is helping Scout plan his birthday party. Will there be birthday success? Or birthday chaos? Find out in this chapter book series about Scout and Ellie, the boy with the elephant living in his backyard. Oh, and did I mention that his family is a circus? How does a kid stay sane in this family anyway, right?