"Two middle-grade kids take a shortcut home from school and discover what looks like fuzzy mud but is actually a substance with the potential to wreak havoc on the entire world"--

After moving to a new town his freshman year in high school, Alex Myers is happy to win a spot on the varsity team as a quarterback but must deal with idea of not playing for two years since the first-string quarterback is not only a local hero, he is also son of the corrupt head coach.

Although his teacher insists there are stories everywhere, Ralph cannot think of any to write.

When money disappears from fourth-grader Evan's pocket and everyone thinks that his annoying classmate Scott stole it, Evan's younger sister stages a trial involving the entire class, trying to prove what happened.

When a school bus accident leaves sixteen-year-old Jessica an amputee, she returns to school with a prosthetic limb and her track team finds a wonderful way to help rekindle her dream of running again.

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.

Nervous about the first day of school, Oliver brings an alligator to school for protection.

Due to an administrative mix-up, troublemaker Donovan Curtis is sent to the Academy of Scholastic Distinction, a special program for gifted and talented students, after pulling a major prank at middle school.

Publisher Annotation: More than anything, Veronica McGowan wants to fit in with the cool kids. There?s just one problem: they barely know she exists. Veronica wishes for something, anything to fix her nobody status?and gets more than she bargained for when she wakes up with "stupidpowers." Suddenly, her strongest emotions come to life for the whole school to see. She belches fire when she?s angry, dark clouds rain on her when she?s sad, and cutesy...

After years in foster homes, seventeen-year-old Benson Fisher applies to New Mexico's Maxfield Academy in hopes of securing a brighter future, but instead he finds that the school is a prison and no one is what he or she seems.