Friends can come in funny shapes. At first Joshua thought Mrs. Goodwin looked like a tank. Joshua can't believe he's in third grade again. "I'm moving to East Africa next week," he mumbles after Tommy Wilhelm's friends finish creaming him on the p...
Eliza's friend Lucy can't hear, but she sure can listen. Tryouts are about to begin for the seventh-grade musical. Eliza, a gifted singer, has been waiting for this moment since third grade. But on the morning of the auditions she can't bring hers...
It was the first time for Molly without Amy or Lisa. The Three Bears had all been together in kindergarten and first grade. Then in second Molly and Lisa had had Mrs. Brown and Amy had Mrs. Freemont. And in third and fourth, Amy and Molly had Mrs. Pe...
Tommy Wilhelm and his gang of bullies have never let fifth-grader Joshua forget that he was held back in the third grade. Now Tommy has started picking on a dorky new kid and Joshua must choose between sticking up for the nerd and saving his own neck...
Joshua T. Bates is back in a brand-new story that fills in the time between The Flunking of Joshua T. Bates and Joshua T. Bates Takes Charge. After flunking third grade and repeating a semester, Joshua has finally been promoted to fourth grade. But m...
ANOTHER YEAR. ANOTHER NEW ADDRESS.... Unlike most kids, Peter Hall loves to move. His family has lived all over the world, in places like Tokyo, Rome, Ghana, and Washington, D.C. He has seen things other kids could only dream of seeing....and his fa...
She dyes her hair purple, wears black clothing, and calls herself Cheetah. Can this really be the girl known to her family as Amanda the Good? Not anymore! Sometime between sixth grade and junior high, Amanda Bates woke up and discovered she'd bec...
When a new troublemaker, Trout, arrives at school, Ben is soon diagnosed with ADDâ€"just like Trout.Ever since first grade, Ben’s been in trouble, even though he’s really not a bad kid. He just can’t seem to stop doing things that get him sent ...
Blister was there for Jonah when he was the new student everyone loved to hate. Blister was there for Jonah when he lied and said he was a big TV personality. And Blister was right alongside Jonah when he turned his lie into a real job at a televisio...
Twelve-year-old Ellie Tremont is b-o-r-e-d, bored, and she wishes something, anything, would happen. So when 14-year-old Tommy Bowers moves in next door, with his lanky swagger and his troubled past, Ellie knows her summer is about to get interesting...
Can the right pair of shoes make *anyone* feel beautiful? Franny is constantly embarrassed by two things in her life. One is her right foot, which curls in from a birth defect, so she has to wear ugly, heavy orthopedic shoes. And the other is her ...
The search for a missing baby drives this heart-pounding page turner, from Edgar Award Winner Susan Shreve (LUCY FOREVER AND MISS ROSETREE, SHRINKS). It was just a few minutes. Stuck in a hotel room babysitting while the rest of her family celebra...
Oblivious to the turmoil going on around her, Alyssa Reed is looking forward to the arrival of the new baby, but when the baby dies and her parent's marriage dissolves, Alyssa decides to become Blister and make things go her way, despite the conseque...