An introduction to plants that provides information on the parts of plants, the things that make them grow, and the ways humans use them; and includes simple experiments to reinforce the scientific concepts presented.

When all the second grade students must enter the science fair, which has global warming as its theme, best friends Ivy and Bean team up to create an unusual project.

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.

While trying to decide on a science fair project, third-grader Wilson struggles with fractions and, much to his embarrassment, his parents sign him up to work with a math tutor.

Recounts the story of two boys who launched a Lego man into near space with a weather balloon and documented the feat with digital cameras.

Jada is trying to work on her science project, but she keeps getting interrupted.

When his project malfunctions during the Intergalactic Science Fair, Zack, a boy from Earth living on the planet Nebulon, has to get things under control before disaster erupts?

When Heidi is paired with Stanley, her worst enemy's best friend, for the Brewster Science Fair and she suddenly starts getting notes from a secret admirer, she tries to use magic to discover the note-writer's identity.

Beatrix wins the school science fair every year because she uses magic to cheat, but this year her un-magical twin Olive is convinced that her own project on molds will win--until a fight over space upsets both projects and turns Olive's mold into a stinky, moldy blob monster which is alive, growing, and threatening to overwhelm the school.

When Beany's best friend Carol Ann pairs with the new girl at school to create a science project, Beany must work with Kevin the bully.