"Just as Gladys Gatsby prepares to enter the complicated world of middle school, her secret gig as the New York Standard's youngest restaurant critic won't be a secret much longer--and Gladys must enlist the help of her Parisian aunt to be true to herself, and honest with her friends and family"--

Amelia Bedelia suggests that her Mom, who is feeling blue, go on a play date while Amelia Bedelia is doing the same, and then enlists her friends to help make chalk drawings on the house, sidewalk, and more to brighten Mom's day with her favorite things.

Six misfits get stuck together in a middle school restroom and discover friendship. Includes playscript of the story.

Twelve-year-old Sophie Mulvaney's world has been turned upside down. Mum lost her job at the TV station and broke up with Pratik, whom Sophie adored. Her teacher is making them do a special project about risk-taking, so Sophie gets roped into doing a triathlon. And to top it all off, she's started seeing bubbles above people's heads that tell her what people are thinking. Seeing other people's thoughts seems like it should be cool, but it's actually...

When New York Yankee James "JY" Yager tries to show that he can still hit in the majors without the help of twelve-year-old Jalen's baseball genius, Jalen focuses on his own baseball career as he tries to carve out a spot with the Rockton Rockets.

"Young Derek Jeter is excited when his father becomes coach of his baseball team, but things don't go as he had planned"--

Charlotte, twelve, and Ben, eleven, are highly-skilled competitors at online Scrabble and that connection helps both as they face family issues and the turmoil of middle school.

"A girl is locked in a room in an old, abandoned house.  She has been hiding there for more than a hundred years.  Another girl, Jules, arrives at the ruined house and sees a pale face in an upstairs window.  Who is up there, she wonders, behind a locked door?  Jules finds out that a young girl has been watching her from the window.  Jules is fearful, then fascinated, then eager to befriend--and help--the captive, who is burdened by a chilling...

After being forced to give up his pet fox Pax, a young boy named Peter decides to leave home and get his best friend back. Pax and Peter have been inseparable ever since Peter rescued him as a kit. But one day the unimaginable happens: Peter's dad enlists in the military and makes him return the fox to the wild. At his grandfather's house three hundred miles away from home, Peter knows he isn't where he should be - with Pax. He strikes out on his...