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Mildred's attempts to lose her reputation as Cackle Academy's worst witch are fouled up by her enemy Ethel, who casts a very bad spell on her; then, Mildred devises a plan to rescue her beloved tabby cat, who has been deemed not good enough to be a witch's cat, and secretly takes him along on her school trip.

The mummy that Andrew creates for his fifth grade project seems to have special powers and helps him to understand his feelings about himself, his dead mother, and his stepbrother, who he calls Mr.

After finding out there has never been a female U.S. president, Grace decides to run in her school's mock election, where she learns about the American electoral system and sets out to be the best person for the job even though her opponent, Thomas, seems to be winning all the boys' votes.

Mildred is determined that her third year of school will be her best, and when things finally seem to be going her a way, a strange new teacher arrives.

An unlikely teacher takes over the disorderly fourth-grade class of Aesop Elementary School with surprising results.

During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs.

Feathers introduces the earliest readers to unique bird feather textures, colors, and patterns while providing them with a supportive first nonfiction reading experience.

Nine-year-old Lenny gets in trouble and has no friends because he cannot control himself in school and his interests are not like those of his classmates, until he starts visiting Muriel, a counselor, and meets Van, a boy his age who has leukemia.

Bee faces friction at home and at school when her widowed father begins seriously dating Jazzi, who seems to take over the house and their lives, but as shared secrets and common interests finally begin to draw them together, Jazzi accidentally makes a terrible mistake.

Cocoa the horse does not want Cowgirl Kate to go to school without him.

A quirky and utterly logical seventh-grade girl named Emma-Jean Lazarus discovers some interesting results when she gets involved in the messy everyday problems of her peers.

Minna does a lot of thinking about her project to do something kind, make a picture about what she did, and share it with her classmates, but finally comes up with an idea that spreads to the whole school.

First Grader Jessica , a big worrier, is expecially afraid that she will make a mistake when she is reading in front of her class and parents on Reading Theater day, but after lots of practice reading to her dog Wiggles, she performs perfectly.

Second-graders Ivy and Bean set out to expel the ghost who is living in the girls' bathroom at their school.

Although filled with anger over her parents' disappearance, eleven-year-old Sabrina Grimm--along with her grandmother, sister, and several fairy-tale characters--tries to discover who has killed her teacher.