Due to an administrative mix-up, troublemaker Donovan Curtis is sent to the Academy of Scholastic Distinction, a special program for gifted and t

In basketball-crazed Walthorne, rival middle school stars Austin Chambers and Carter Haswell are both feeling the pressure when school sports rep

Piper knows the truth: some people are born to be radiant, and she's just not one of them. That fact has never been clearer than now since her da

"As his school's centennial is coming up, Big Nate is stuck showing the dorky new kid around"--

Fourth-grader Iggy Frangi and his friends, afraid the principal saw them pulling a big prank, vow to be so good they are invisible, but learn tha

"El término "superdotado" nunca se ha aplicado a un chico como Donovan Curtis, quien es más conocido por sus bromas absurdas y estrafalarias. Cua

James Patterson introduces his hilarious new heroine, Jacky Ha-Ha, a class clown who makes people laugh with her so they can't laugh at her. With

After his fight with Randy Betancourt makes headlines in the school paper, Big Nate has a problem worse than detention on his hands.

"In this latest misadventure, Nate, the all-time record-holder for detentions, gets to see how the other half lives as he follows his best friend

Sixth-grader and self-proclaimed genius Nate Wright faces his all-time enemy, Gina, when they are paired to work on a research paper together and

Jamie shares with her diary her search for inner beauty, dealing with fund raising, and problems in Phys ed class.

Supremely confident middle-school student Nate Wright manages to make getting detention from every one of his teachers in the same day seem like