Dubbed a reluctant reader by his teacher, twelve-year-old Derek spends summer vacation learning important lessons even though he does not complete his summer reading list.

Rebecca Madden's grandmother, a famous artist, is believed to have destroyed all her paintings before she died, but Claudia, who comes to help Rebecca prepare her grandmother's house for sale, is convinced that this is not the case.

Follows the further misadventures of Aldo as he stumbles through the beginning of fifth grade and dedicates himself to winning an art contest, in a book featuring vocabulary starting with the letter D.

"Maya Reynolds has practically grown up in her family's Brooklyn pizza shop, Soul Slice, and is a true city girl. When her family moves to a small town in Pennsylvania to open another pizza place, everything changes. Being the new girl is hard enough. At Soul Slice 2.0, Maya is assigned delivery duty. And her first delivery is a disaster. Can you make a worse impression than tripping... and falling face-first into a rude boy's pizza order? When that...