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In 1863, eleven-year-old Peg Kelly is drawn into the dangerous activities of a mysterious young woman who takes refuge with the Kelly family in Missouri after fleeing the attack on Lawrence, Kansas, by William Quantrill and his Confederate raiders.

To the constant disappointment of his mother and his teachers, Joey has trouble paying attention or controlling his mood swings when his prescription medications wear off, and he starts getting worked up and acting wired.

Marylin and Kate have been friends since nursery school, but when Marylin becomes a middle school cheerleader and Kate begins to develop other interests, their relationship is put to the test.

Joey, who is still taking medication to keep him from getting too wired, goes to spend the summer with the hard-drinking father he has never known and tries to help the baseball team he coaches win the championship.

Principal Wagner confidently deals with a faculty washroom crisis, a psychic parrot, and a terrorizing gerbil, but when sixty-five erasers go missing, he enlists the help of the school's best problem solver and lost item locator, twelve-year-old Lyle Williams, also known as Mudshark.

When Brother Bear returns to school after being out sick, he gets into a mess that gets worse and worse until Gramps gives him some advice.

Impatient to begin reading, a first-grader doesn't realize that there is more to reading than books.

A first-grade boy is shocked, then pleased, when he discovers that his teacher has a life away from school.

Lulu starts witch school and meets a classmate who is best at everything.

Mrs. Toggle and her class prepare for the arrival of a new student whom they expect to be a dinosaur.

The story of a strange, shy little boy in a Japanese village school who was ignored by his classmates until suddenly, and almost too late, a new teacher showed them that Crow Boy had much to offer.

Two gils had been best friends, starting from the day at dancing school when they discovered they had an awful secret in common.

The Bailey School kids want to find out if Miss Kidwell, the substitute school secretary, is really a gremlin messing up the electricity.

The Bailey School kids are going to find out if the new band teacher could really teach a skeleton to play the tuba.

Until Mrs. Jeepers, the third grade at Baily Elementary School was hard to handle.