Avon Camelot book

Contains jokes, riddles, and cartoons.

The school in Mayfield Crossing is closed and the studentsare sent to the larger Parkview school where the African-Americans students encounter racism for the first time; however, they all stick together and find that baseball just might be the thing that brings them all together.

Describes the career of the Nigerian-born basketball player who brought the Houston Rockets its first NBA title and has now become an American citizen.

Eleven-year-old Dasie watches the effects on her family and friends when the lumber mill that supports the town closes its doors.

A sixteen-year-old girl gains confidence and perspective in her life by leaving her family in Oregon to live with friends in California for a year.

A collection of stories about a variety of aliens, some fierce, some funny, some sad, and some very strange.

When Michael and Norman's unusual plants, Stanley and Fluffy, are on display at a plant auction, they meet Curly Temple, a plant who is always ready for fun. The three plants are soon working together to foil a group of vandals.

Things look bad when Josie's letter to the newspaper gets her family evicted from their apartment, but the sad story has a happy ending when she ends up with a house and the dog of her dreams.

Thirteen-year-old Scott struggles to learn to control his temper, but not before it's led to all sorts of trouble, including dismissal from one baseball team, humiliation on another, and involvement with his enemy, Beaky, in a plan to catch some professional thieves.