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When his new best friend, Ben, decides to run for class president, fourth-grade science whiz Phineas MacGuire reluctantly agrees to be his campaign manager in exchange for help with his latest experiment--cultivating exhibits for a mold museum.

Katie, an ordinary third-grader who accidentally wished on a shooting star to be anyone but herself, turns into her best friend Suzanne's baby sister, but the real trouble starts when she speaks, causing everyone to think the baby is a genius.

Mr. Macky, the reading specialist who thinks he is Abraham Lincoln, assigns A.J. and his friends to read all about the presidents for President's Day.

A quirky and utterly logical seventh-grade girl named Emma-Jean Lazarus discovers some interesting results when she gets involved in the messy everyday problems of her peers.

Cocoa the horse does not want Cowgirl Kate to go to school without him.

Nine-year-old Lenny gets in trouble and has no friends because he cannot control himself in school and his interests are not like those of his classmates, until he starts visiting Muriel, a counselor, and meets Van, a boy his age who has leukemia.

An unlikely teacher takes over the disorderly fourth-grade class of Aesop Elementary School with surprising results.

Mildred Hubble, who has set out to keep her third year at Miss Cackle's Academy for Witches disaster-free, feels compelled to investigate her weird new teacher.

After finding out there has never been a female U.S. president, Grace decides to run in her school's mock election, where she learns about the American electoral system and sets out to be the best person for the job even though her opponent, Thomas, seems to be winning all the boys' votes.

Mildred's attempts to lose her reputation as Cackle Academy's worst witch are fouled up by her enemy Ethel, who casts a very bad spell on her; then, Mildred devises a plan to rescue her beloved tabby cat, who has been deemed not good enough to be a witch's cat, and secretly takes him along on her school trip.