"When Marvin moves to a new neighborhood, he wants nothing more than to join the local baseball team. After all, he loves playing baseball more than anything, and with his lucky baseball bat in hand, what could go wrong? But when that same lucky bat goes missing, Marvin completely loses his ability to play ball. Without it, he can't see how he'll ever live up to his baseball heroes. But even though he's lost his talent, Marvin might just find something...

Baseball player José Mendez worries about his poor performance with the bat and fears disappointing his father, a former ballplayer with an outstanding batting average.

Convinced that her family is poor because her parents refuse to get her a horse or a swimming pool, nine-year-old Jenny Archer follows her own path to making money, including a plunge into real estate that puts her house on the market.

When nine-year-old Alex moves to weird California to live with her father for a year, she is plagued by disturbing nightmares and fears her new friends will learn her babyish secret.

Jenny Archer is excited about making a television commercial for a new snack food, until she discovers that the food she liked so much was meant for gerbils.

When B.J. bets his mother's lottery ticket and loses it to Mavis Mae, he will do anything to get it back before Mavis Mae discovers it is the winning ticket.

After perfecting her first aid skills, Jenny is disappointed in not finding anyone to rescue and decides to invent her own emergencies.

Terrorized by an evil lunch-snatcher at his new school, Brian devises, with the help of a fellow comic book fan, a plan involving a new super hero called Wonder Kid.

Fourth grader Alex's new friendships in California are endangered when her chance to appear in a rock video brings her glamour and an inflated ego. Sequel to "Alex Fitzgerald's Cure for Nightmares."

When the sixth-grade girls' volleyball team falls into a slump, its members wonder if they have been jinxed.