In desperate need of a friend--and a science project--Maya finds a robot named Ralph in Mr. Mac's convenience store, and once she gets him up and running, a new world of connection opens up.

High school senior Bel Maier has an aptitude for engineering and teams up with robotics team captain, Mateo Luna, but after a rough start together the nights of after-school work lead to romance.

Wanting to lure beautiful fireflies into her backyard, Molly and her friends Simon and Rosie take steps to attract a larger swarm only to shake up the neighborhood when their plan works a little too well.

Fifth-grader Kate tries to do it all when she promises a cake for her brother's birthday party and stages a rocket launch for her chemistry club.

When his father's illness prompts their frequently moving family to settle down in a permanent home, twelve-year-old Ross, a kid famed for pranks at his previous schools, tries to master the art of being funny to secure his popularity.

In need of a replacement science fair project, two friends must decide whether to use their loose teeth or leave them for the Tooth Fairy.

After worrying about what to do for his science fair project, a young boy takes his mother's suggestion to find the science in his life.

Thea Teawinkle plants an odd, purple, bean-shaped seed in her backyard for her class science project, with astonishing results that even the experts she writes to--including a botanist, an arborist, a museum curator, and a symphony director--cannot offer any explanations for.

Cash, Fitch, and Bird Thomas are three siblings in seventh grade together in Park, Delaware. In 1986, as the country waits expectantly for the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger, they each struggle with their own personal anxieties. Cash, who loves basketball but has a newly broken wrist, is in danger of failing seventh grade for the second time. Fitch spends every afternoon playing Major Havoc at the arcade on Main. And Bird, his twelve-year-old...

Fergus and Zeke, the pet mice in Miss Maxwell's classroom, learn that Lucy wants to teach them how to run through a maze for the science fair, but they come up with their own idea for training Lucy to cheer them for their performance.