Third-grader Clementine tries to adjust to the news that her perfect family of four is adding a new brother or sister.

Arnie the talking doughnut convinces Mr. Bing that not all doughnuts are meant to be eaten. A deliciously imaginative story about friendship--from the author/illustrator of The Scrambled States of America. Arnie was fascinated as he watched the customers stream into the bakery. One by one, doughnuts were chosen, placed in paper bags, and whisked away with their new owners. Some went by the dozen in giant boxes. "Good-bye!" Arnie yelled to each doughnut....

"At the end of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, we left our hero riding in triumph in his Great Glass Elevator, the proud new owner of the gigantic and fabulous Chocolate Factory. The other passengers were his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bucket, his four grandparents (all in one huge bed!) and, of course, Mr. Willy Wonka, chocolate maker extraordinaire! When Grandma Josephine panics and presses the wrong button, the Great Glass Elevator goes into orbit!...

Shrek, a horrid ogre, goes out into the world to find adventure and along the way encounters a witch, a knight in armor, a dragon and, finally a hideous princess who is even uglier than he is!

The unexpected delivery of a large crate containing an Antarctic penguin changes the life and fortunes of Mr. Popper, a house painter obsessed by dreams of the Polar regions.

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...

Led by Duncan "Gluestick" Dewey, the NERDS team uses brain power and courage rather than gadgets when they face off against supervillian Simon, his band of savage squirrels, and Albert, a middle-aged computer genius who lives with his mother.

Eugenia Lincoln is a practical person, with no time for geegaws, whoop-de-whoops, or frivolity. When an unexpected package containing an accordion arrives at her house, she is determined to have nothing to do with it. Will Eugenia find a way to sell, destroy, or give away the mysterious instrument -- or will she discover that a little frivolity can be surprisingly joyful?

Former NERDS teammate Heathcliff Hodges introduces a virus to Arlington, Virginia, home of the NERDS headquarters, and it transforms people into superintelligent criminal masterminds. Flinch is determined to destroy the virus, and in order to do that, he must shrink himself and take a trip through Heathcliff's body.

When an unexpected blizzard strands the animals of the Athensville Zoo in a seemingly empty elementary school overnight, Plum the peacock must overcome his anxiety to save his friend Itch, who gets lost in a snowdrift.