Alice Bell must learn to fight the undead to avenge her family and learn to trust Cole Holland who has secrets of his own.

Yikes! Stink Moody, family brain brings home a report card that isn't perfect? Time for Chopzilla to get (his thumbs) into fighting shape and beat back that U for Unsatisfactory he got in gym class. Ka-POW!

Unhappy about his baby sister's illness and the chaos of moving into a dilapidated old house, Michael retreats to the garage and finds a mysterious stranger who is something like a bird and something like an angel.

After Marvin, a beetle, makes a miniature drawing as an eleventh birthday gift for James, a human with whom he shares a house, the two new friends work together to help recover an Albrecht Dürer drawing stolen from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The year between turning eleven and turning twelve brings many changes for Winnie and her friends.

"Unbeknownst to their parents, twelve-year-olds Frankie and Walter spend the night in an IKEA store"--

Georgie's dwarfism causes problems, but he could always rely on his parents, his best friend, and classmate Jeanie the Meanie's teasing, until a surprising announcement, a new boy in school, and a class project shake things up.

During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns much of value about the world he lives in.

Guided by her rules, nine-year-old Allie works to get past being just the new girl at school, eagerly awaits the arrival of her kitten, and faces turmoil when her grandmother visits while the family is still settlling into their new home.

Allie's theatrical hopes are crushed when, instead of being cast as the princess, she is given the role of the evil queen in the fourth-grade class play.