The Bailey School kids intend to find out if their softball coach, who keeps wrapping up his injuries with bandages, is really a mummy.

Mrs. Madoff asks each child in her class to share their plans for Mother's Day and helps her students make a special gift.

When Mike's mother and sister go on tour with "Les Miserables," Mike's father and his new wife enroll Mike in St. Matthew's Military Academy where, facing brutality and ignorance, he learns to survive.

A ninth-grader's suspension for singing "The Star-Spangled Banner" during homeroom becomes a national news story.

Melanie and April turn a deserted lot into an imaginary Egypt where they spend many hours enacting rituals and consulting oracles, but there are real dangers and problems lurking outside their make-believe world that almost bring their game to a disastrous end.

Presents an English translation of the French novel which follows the disappointments and exhilarations of Margot Melo girl and her sixth grade classmates as they exhaust their teachers, host a poetry competition, play spin the bottle, and travel to Rome on a class trip.

When her mother remarries, eight-year-old Tracy has to get used to a new school and a new obnoxious stepbrother.

Disappointed in the poor European immigrant ancestors she discovers during a class project to research family roots, Rosy cooks up a clan of royal relatives.

After meeting on the first day in Mrs. Chemsky's fifth-grade class, Margalo and Mikey help each other in and out of trouble, as they try to maintain a friendship while each asserts her independence.

Although a blizzard prevents his cousins from visiting for his birthday, a disappointed Billy ends up having a very special day when his teacher and classmates must stay overnight at his family's house to wait out the snowstorm.