What the pig did - in Joseph Caldwell's charmingly romantic tale of an American in contemporary Ireland - is create a ruckus, a rumpus, a disturbance... utter pandemonium. Possibly the most obstreperous character in literature since Buck Mulligan in James Joyce's Ulysses, Mr. Caldwell's pig distracts everyone from his or her chosen mission. Aaron McCloud has come to Ireland from New York City to walk the beach and pity himself for the cold indifference...

Press secretary Louisa Brannigan feels nothing is more important than her career as she tries to climb her way to the top of Capital Hill, until she finds herself drawn to her annoying neighbor, Peter Streeter, who pulls Louisa into a bizarre search for a missing pig.

A disgruntled pig sets his sights on being more than something to eat.

Bert and Ethel go to Florida to look for their runaway pigs and find them in unexpected places.

When eleven-year-old Becca, a quadruplet, finds a sick piglet on the side of the road, her life is changed forever.

Oliver makes friends with Albert, the new boy in class, and they have fun together, playing kickball and collecting bugs.

Southern belle Ellie McBride moves to New York with her twins and the family pig Rumpy only to find that the hotel where she works does not allow pets; so Ellie has to find a clever way of hiding Rumpy before the chef finds him.

When her brother goes off to school, Amanda finds new things to do, including ballet dancing, cleaning her room, and making a very sad, mad day go away, with the help of hugs from Mother Pig.

Poppleton goes to a movie alone, makes a quilt with his friends, and ends up eating a banana split instead of taking a bath.

Wendell's refusal to clean up his room--which his mother has pronounced a pigsty--proves to be an irresistible invitation to a number of porcine visitors that even Wendell must admit are too messy.