Eleven-year-old Jessi copes with pet sitting for the Mancusi family and serious dissension among the members of the Baby-sitters Club.

After learning that the father he never knew is Poseidon, God of the Sea, Percy Jackson is transferred from boarding school to Camp Half-Blood, a summer camp for demigods, and becomes involved in a quest to prevent a catastrophic war between the gods.

After his family hires migrant Mexican workers to help save their Vermont farm from foreclosure, eleven-year-old Tyler befriends the oldest daughter, but when he discovers they may not be in the country legally, he realizes that real friendship knows no borders.

While Ellie struggles to rehearse with a reluctant classmate for an upcoming school performance, her fellow Critter Club members rescue an adorable kitten that wreaks havoc in their barn.

In this gender-flipping reimagining of S.E. Hinton's "The Outsiders" set in 1964 Houston, Evie must redefine what it means to be a bad girl and rethink everything she knows about loyalty after she is saved from the unimaginable by a good girl from the "right" side of the tracks.

Relates several episodes in the friendship of two hippopotamuses.

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.

"1942. Sadie Gault is eighteen and living with her parents amid the horrors of the Jewish Ghetto in Kraków, Poland, during World War II. When the Nazis liquidate the ghetto, Sadie and her mother are forced to seek refuge in the sewers beneath the city. Ella Stepanek is an affluent Polish girl living a life of relative ease with her stepmother, who has developed close alliances with the occupying Germans. While on an errand in the market, she catches...

"Evelyn is nervous for her first day of soccer practice. She knows she is different and is afraid kids will make fun of her accent. From the motivation of Evelyn's mother, she goes to soccer practice. Will Evelyn overcome her fears and make new friends?"--Back cover.

In 1948, Nikko Spirakis, twelve, loves baseball but must get past his hard-working immigrant parents--and the rhino in the outfield--to become a batboy for the local minor league team.