Ever since they were Snotsippers, Jack and the girl have fought, until one day she steals his bike and as he and the Amigos try to recover it, Jack realizes that he is growing up and must eventually leave the "goodlands and badlands of Hokey Pokey.".
Jason, Piper, and Leo, three students from a school for "bad kids," find themselves at Camp Half-Blood, where they learn that they are demigods and begin a quest to free Hera, who has been imprisoned by Mother Earth herself.
Presents four stories about spunky kindergartener Junie B. Jones, in which she struggles with "meanies" on the bus, gets in trouble for boasting, spies on her teacher, and misunderstands when her grandmother calls her baby brother a monkey.
The disappearance of the goddess Artemis while out hunting a rare, ancient monster, prompts a group of her followers to join Percy and his friends in an attempt to find and rescue her before the winter solstice, when her influence is needed to sway the Olympian Council regarding the war with the Titans.
Buzz, Vanessa, Carter, and Jane must find a way to survive when they are stranded without adults or supplies on a deserted island in the middle of the South Pacific.
Describes the plight of the migrant workers who traveled from the Dust Bowl to California during the Depression and were forced to live in a federal labor camp and discusses the school that was built for their children.
Left alone to guard the family's wilderness home in eighteenth-century Maine, a boy is hard-pressed to survive until local Indians teach him their skills.
The orphan Bod, short for Nobody, is taken in by the inhabitants of a graveyard as a child of eighteen months and raised lovingly and carefully to the age of eighteen years by the community of ghosts and otherworldly creatures.
Chronicles the adventures of Despereaux Tilling--a small mouse of unusual talents, the princess that he loves, a servant girl who longs to be a princess, and a devious rat determined to bring them all to ruin.
