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Loud Boy and the Freak Five have their work cut out for them when Kid-Rid plots to use Uncle Stanley's Flooggget--a machine that can fax actual objects to anywhere in the world--for evil, and the children of the world, including Daniel, have become addicted to a new video game, "Pig Planet.

Simple text and illustrations describe a visit to the dentist.

A young boy is depicted doing a variety of naughty things for which he is repeatedly admonished, but finally he gets a hug.

A young boy is sent to the principal's office and on the way he imagines all sorts of horrible things about how bad the visit will be.

Photographs and text depict the homes, schools, family life, and culture of young people around the world.

Grumpy Mr. Howlweister, a feared legend in the town of Dinkerwink, has his heart changed by the compassion and love of a little deaf girl.

In a future where the Population Police enforce the law limiting a family to only two children, Luke has lived all his twelve years in isolation and fear on his family's farm, until another "third" convinces him that the government is wrong.

Twelve-year-old Hannalee Reed, forced to relocate to Indiana along with other Georgia millworkers during the Civil War, leaves her mother with a promise to return home as soon as the war ends.

A ten-year-old bobbin girl working in a textile mill in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1830s, must make a difficult decision--whether or not she will participate in the first workers' strike in Lowell.

Discusses colonial life in America, depicts a year in the life of a fictional colonial family, and presents projects and activities, such as butter churning, candle dipping, baking bread, and playing colonial games.

Thirteen-year-old Nina is imprisoned by the Population Police, who give her the option of helping them identify illegal "third-born" children, or facing death.

In a society that allows families to have only two children, a group of third-borns tries to save themselves and others like them.

Discusses the importance of a balanced diet and the role of foods in good nutrition, as well as examining the eating habits of some typical sixth-grade students.

Presents an illustrated collection of jump rope rhymes arranged according to the type of jumping they are meant to accompany.

A look at the life of an eleven-year-old Polish girl and her parents living in Poznan.