A fifth-grader starts a newspaper with an editorial that prompts her burnt-out classroom teacher to really begin teaching again, but he is later threatened with disciplinary action as a result.

Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle loves everyone, and everyone loves her right back. The children love her because she is lots of fun. Their parents love her because she can cure children of absolutely any bad habit. The treatmens are unusual, but they work! Who better than a pig, for instance, to teach piggy little boy table manners? And what better way to cure the rainy-day "waddle-I-do's" than hunt for pirate treasures in Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's upside down house?...

Orphaned Anthea Cross hopes to finally find a home with her long-lost uncle, but she soon learns not only that he secretly breeds forbidden horses, but that she can communicate with them.--Provided by Publisher.

Now Aven is ready to shake things up by entering the exciting world of competitive baking with her friend Kayla, Sujata, and Emily. Aven knows she's an expert baker. So what if she doesn't have arms? That's just the way she was born. And honestly, she's a whiz at mixing and measuring with her feet. The one skill Aven hasn't mastered in the kitchen: working together with her friends. Before long they are fighting over whose dessert is the best. Will...

Arthur Curry, the reluctant heir of Atlantis, is recalled to the underwater kingdom when the king of Atlantis declares war on the surface world.

Speed and self-confidence, that's Astrid's motto. Nicknamed "the little thunderbolt," she loves to spend her days racing down the hillside on her skis or sled, singing merrily as she goes, and drinking hot chocolate made from real chocolate bars with her grumpy best friend and godfather, Gunnvald. She just wishes there were other children to share in her hair-raising adventures. But her world is about to be turned upside down, first by the arrival...

Gemma just wants to find her dad. It's been a month since he disappeared on a treasure-hunting expedition, and the town of Ozpa Springs is the last place he was seen. When she, her mom, and her sisters come to the tiny town in the middle of Nowhere, U.S.A., they expect to find him and bring him home. Easy peasy. But all they find is a curse. And that isn't all that defines this strange town. There's a vampire, and a ghost, and the minute Gemma arrives...