school stories

Jimmy's boa constrictor wreaks havoc on the class trip to a farm.

"Forced to enlist the help of her archenemy, Daisy, when school lunches go missing and starving students begin fighting over the last crumbs, super sleuth Lily must find the culprit before all the kids lose it from hunger!"--OCLC.

"Veronica Lodge has always been the most fabulous and popular kid in her class. But ever since she started middle school, she's become a small fish in a much bigger pond. Now, Veronica is terrified her classmates will find out her wealthy dad is out of work. Worse, she has a birthday coming up, and her parties are always huge, grand events. If she can't have a party this year, then everyone will know the truth about her father, and she just can't deal. When Veronica learns about the annual School Spirit Contest--which happens to have a cash prize attached--she makes up her mind to win the contest and use the money to fund her festivities. Her only obstacle is the infuriatingly cool and older Cheryl Blossom, who's handily won the contest two years in a row. Can Veronica save her birthday?"--OCLC.

"Betty Cooper and her best friend, Val Smith, are about to start middle school, and they've always done everything together. They play together, have classes together and want to study the same things together. Or so Betty thinks! When Val unexpectedly signs up for a music elective she and Betty are separated for the first tine since they meet many years ago. Now Betty is stuck in the loser drama elective, which is dominated by the snobby Veronica Lodge. Is middle school doomed to be the absolute worst time of Betty's life?"--Back cover.

"When she is not picked to go on a trip to Washington, D.C., because only calm, neutral students are being sent, Emma tries to prove that she can be unemotional and offer no opinions for forty-eight hours"--OCLC.

When she wakes up in the body of her cat, Mitten Man, bullied fifth-grader Poppy attempts to navigate the world as a cat, while Mitten Man, tired of his owner's timidity, is out to take over middle school--as Poppy.

Believing she has a talent for solving others' problems, seventh-grader Emma Woods starts an advice blog for her classmates, but in spite of her good intentions, she quickly discovers that she sometimes creates problems and that not everyone wants her help.

"A Indian American boy endures a family move from Hawaii to frigid Minnesota and, with the help of three life-changing books he reads in school, he learns to like reading, and ultimately, himself"--Provided by publisher.

When twelve-year-old Ana's zoologist parents move the whole family into the zoo, the Sneers--the clan of carnivorous female predators in her class--have even more ammunition to make her life miserable, although she tries to act like a chameleon and fade into the background.

Alternates interrelated stories about three characters, including a Chinese American trying to participate in popular culture; a Chinese folk hero attempting to be worshipped as a god; and a teenager who is so ashamed by his Chinese cousin's behavior that he changes schools.