Award-winning educator and author Alan Lawrence Sitomer's engaging young adult novels have been named among the ALA's Best Books of the Year. This first tale in his planned Nerd Girls series follows 13-year-old self-proclaimed "dorkasaurus" Maureen and her fellow social outcasts Alice and Barbara. When Maureen discovers that the Pretty, Popular, Perfect girls are planning a mean trick on Alice, she decides it's finally time to take a stand. Signing...

"Best friends Isaac and Marco face various challenges in sixth grade, such as Isaac getting better grades, Marco winning a spot on the basketball team, and both seeing their efforts make a change in their respective family lives. They hope their friendship and support for one another will be enough to help them from falling short"--WorldCat.

Hindered by a fight with her friend Dub and a series of mysterious fires, eleven-year-old Allie investigates the fire seventeen years earlier which claimed the lives of the husband and infant son of a school cafeteria worker, as well as the handsome young man whose ghost asks Allie for help.

In Big Nate: In a Class by Himself, Nate knows he s destined for great things. But things don t always go your way just because you re awesome. When his whole life seems to be going wrong, can Nate prove that he s really destined for greatness? In Big Nate Strikes Again, Nate is stuck with Gina, his all-time enemy, in a class project AND on his fleeceball team right when Nate is set to win his first championship. Even though Gina s sure to ruin everything,...