"No fair! Karen is having a bad-luck day. Her favorite jeans are missing. There's no prize in the Crunch-O cereal box. And Boo-Boo the cat runs a

Tired of being pressured to help commit crimes and yearning for a more normal life, twins Jillian and Billy band together to do good deeds while

When he is assigned Teddy Roosevelt as his biography project in school, fourth-grader Riley finds himself inspired by Roosevelt's tenacity and pe

After her parents are jailed for a failed resistance movement, Malley is sent to reform school, where she plans some resistance of her own.

When their thieving parents steal a rich and famous dog, twins Jillian and Billy, who have grown tired of being crooks, must find a way to get Po

Seventh grader Alice decides that the only way to stave off personal and social disasters is to be part of the crowd, especially the "in" crowd,

Describes a winterhouse built by Betsy's father and located in the basement where Betsy and her friends never have a dull moment.

Each of five children lucky enough to discover an entry ticket into Willy Wonka's mysterious chocolate factory takes advantage of the situation i

Just before his thirteenth birthday, Jeremy Fink receives a keyless locked box--set aside by his father before his death five years earlier--that

Relates the adventures and misadventures of the four Moffat children living with their widowed mother in a yellow house on New Dollar Street in t

Encourages readers to accept and love themselves as they are and advises them to be confident, curious, adaptable, and willing to speak up.

When nonbeliever Michael transfers to a Catholic school in eleventh grade, he quickly connects with a secret support group intent on exposing the