Hank's class is putting on a play, and Hank wants the lead part of Aqua Fly. But he freezes in his audition. His teacher creates a special part for Hank, a silent bookmark.

Hank must decide whether to attend tae kwon do or an after school reading program run by his favorite teacher, and when he meets an interesting girl at "Reading Gym," he gets into a complicated situation that even has him lying to his father.

Efforts to impress a visiting student from Japan cause Hank to hide his dyslexia while the gang makes enchiladas for a Multi-Cultural Day lunch, and Hank is afraid he was very wrong about the amount of chili powder called for in the recipe.

Publisher Annotation: Mason Buttle is the biggest, sweatiest kid in his grade, and everyone knows he can barely read or write. Mason?s learning disabilities are compounded by grief. Fifteen months ago, Mason?s best friend, Benny Kilmartin, turned up dead in the Buttle family?s orchard. An investigation drags on, and Mason, honest as the day is long, can?t understand why Lieutenant Baird won?t believe the story Mason has told about that day. Both Mason...

Dudley Ellington struggles to learn anything at school, but when his very patient teacher, Mrs. McGraw, is unable to draw a face on the board, he helps her figure out how to do it.

Fifteen-year-old Macy, officially labeled "disturbed" by her school, records her impressions of her rough neighborhood and home life as she tries to rescue her brother from Child Protective Services, win back her overachieving best friend after a fight, and figure out whether to tell her incarcerated father about her mother's cheating.