Karen's world was ending. Her father had moved out of the house weeks before; now3 he was going to Las Vegas to get the divorce and her mother was pleased! Karen is hoping to arrange a meeting so that her parents will forget about the divorce.

A reading circle mishap convinces Jake that he never wants to speak during class again and Abigale loses her trust in one of her best friends, but they both have to deal with their fiendish cousins from New York.

At first it seems that Peter Hatcher's summer vacation is going to be a scene from his worst nightmare. Peter's parents have decided to spend three weeks in Maine sharing a house with Cootie Queen Sheila Tubman and the rest of her family. To make matters worse, Peter's younger brother, Fudge, the five-year-old human dynamo, has decided to marry Sheila! But things begin to look up once Peter discovers that Maine is full of surprises, and his best friend...

In 1987, Miri Ammerman returns to her hometown of Elizabeth, New Jersey, to attend a commemoration of the worst year of her life. Thirty-five years earlier, when Miri was fifteen, and in love for the first time, a succession of airplanes fell from the sky, leaving a community reeling. Against this backdrop of actual events that Blume experienced in the early 1950s, when airline travel was new and exciting and everyone dreamed of going somewhere, she...

The comical adventures of the Hatcher family continue in this lively story about sixth grader Peter's trials and tribulations when his younger brother Superfudge begins school for the first time.

There is a lot going on in his life that thirteen-year-old Tony Miglione does not really understand--like why his parents suddenly have money enough to buy a house on Long Island, why his mother has changed, why his rich friend Joel shoplifts, why he is obsessed with Joel's sixteen-year-old sister, and why he is having terrible stomach pains.

When Davey Wexler's father is killed in a holdup in Atlantic City, her mother moves Davey and her brother to Los Alamos to get away from the memories--but Davey is a girl frozen in fear and anger, until she meets an older boy called Wolf who can read her tiger eyes.

Freckle Juice: Andrew envies his classmate's freckles. But when another classmate offers him the recipe for her secret freckle juice, Andrew finds himself in a hilarious heap of trouble. The one in the middle is the green kangaroo: second grader Freddy Dissel tries to prove himself to his friends and family.

Freckle Juice: Andrew envies his classmate's freckles. But when another classmate offers him the recipe for her secret freckle juice, Andrew finds himself in a hilarious heap of trouble. The one in the middle is the green kangaroo: second grader Freddy Dissel tries to prove himself to his friends and family.

Peter describes the highs and lows of life with his younger brother Fudge.