During a bycle trip to the state park, Joels dares his best friend, Tony, to a swimming race in the danggerous Vermillon River. The boys have been warned never to go near the river, but Tony can't let Joel think he's scared. Both boys jump in.'
Sheila Tubman is not quite sure who she is. Sometimes she feels like confident, brilliant Sheila the Great and other times she's secret Sheila, Who's afraid of spiders, the dark, swimming, and most of all, dogs. '
WHEN MILTON AND Marlo Fauster die in a marshmallow bear explosion, they get sent straight to Heck, an otherworldly reform school. Milton can understand why his kleptomaniac sister is here, but Milton is—or was—a model citizen. Has a mistake been made? Not according to Bea “Elsa” Bubb, the Principal of Darkness. She doesn’t make mistakes. She personally sees to it that Heck—whether i…
From this moment on, life is never quite the same for Tom and his seventh-grade classmate. Despite Jessica's shocking appearance and the fear she evokes in him and most of the class, Tom slowly develops a tentative friendship with Jessica that changes his life. Firegirl is a powerful book that shows readers that even the smallest of gestures can have a profound impact on someone's life.
Grade 8 Up–Teagan Phillips is throwing hundreds of thousands of dollars into a Sweet 16 party that she has been planning for a year. When she falls down the cellar stairs in search of some wine after she learns that her father canceled the open bar, she appears to have died. She is witness to her present, past, and future, but instead of three ghosts à la A Christmas Carol, Teagan has just o…