Alice is in the eighth grade, and while she wants her life to be exciting and outrageous, she also wants to feel protected and safe.

Eighteen-year-old Kate, who sometimes chafes at being a preacher's daughter, finds herself losing control in her senior year as she faces difficult neighbors, the possibility that she may not be accepted by the college of her choice, and an unexpected death.

Michael Munroe learns to never trust a teacher that calls his students "Little Monsters" when he finds himself trapped in Horrorland after a lunch with the suspicious teacher.

Provides fictionalized anecdotes of the author's childhood as a ten-year old living in Chicago.

A little boy's parents warn him of the dangers of going to school naked, and he eventually agrees to wear clothes, but only if he can pick his outfits.

After passing a series of mind-bending tests, four children are selected for a secret mission that requires them to go undercover at the Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened, where the only rule is that there are no rules.

Gossip Girl shares the scoop on the renewed friendship between Blair and Serena, two seventeen-year-olds who attend an exclusive private school in Manhattan, and follow the two and their friends as they party through the holiday break.

Contains the first two novels in The Secret Circle series in which Cassie moves from California to New England to live with her mom and grandmother where she discovers she is one in a long line of witches, is initiated into a coven at her school, and upsets the balance of power when she falls in love with Adam, another witch's boyfriend.

Summoned to study at The Academy of Avalon, sixteen-year-old Laurel learns about the town with friend Tamani, while honing her long-forgotten skills as a Fall faerie in order to protect her human family and Avalon from trolls.

A young boy lists all the things he will have to take with him on his first day in kindergarten.