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Sixth-grader Tommy and his friends describe their interactions with a paper finger puppet of Yoda, worn by their weird classmate Dwight, as they try to figure out whether or not the puppet can really predict the future.

Friends Ook and Gluk are always getting into trouble with their village chief until they pass through a portal into a future run by the chief’s descendant, where they learn kung fu so they can return to the past and free their people.

With bath time approaching, Kitty’s owners do what they can to prepare themselves for the disaster they know it will become—and even have an ambulance waiting in the driveway just in case!

While running a spy network from their elementary school, five unpopular misfits combine their enhanced abilities and use cutting-edge gadgetry to fight evil around the world.

Ten-year-old Leo’s future and the fate of the extraordinary Whippet Hotel, where his father is the maintenance man, are at stake when a series of cryptic boxes leads Leo to hidden floors, strange puzzles, and unexpected alliances.

Middle schooler Charlie Joe is proud of his success at avoiding reading, but eventually his schemes go too far.

A volume of graphic stories features such outrageous elements as zombie kittens, rocket-stealing ants, and bloodsucking grannies.

Miss Daisy’s unusual teaching methods surprise her second grade students, especially reluctant learner A.J.

An 11-year-old ghost describes a year at Scary School, where werewolves, zombies and humans mingle and the teachers range from dragons to vampires.

Greg records his sixth-grade experiences in a middle school where he and his best friend, Rowley, hope just to survive. When Rowley grows more popular, Greg must take drastic measures to save their friendship.

When his precious baseball card is stolen by a mean dealer named Swindle, Griffin Bing gathers up a group of courageous misfits and devises a plan to break into the compound to get it back.

The shortest kid in the second grade, James Moody, also known as Stink, learns all about the shortest president of the United States, James Madison, when they celebrate Presidents’ Day at school.

Fourteen-year-old Kevin is very good at lying and doing so makes life easier, but when he finds himself in big trouble with his friends, family, and teachers, he must find a way to end his lies forever.

Self-proclaimed genius Nate Wright blazes a haphazard trail through sixth grade at P.S. 38, where between endless misadventures, he earns straight A’s and numerous detentions.

Supremely confident middle-school student Nate Wright manages to make getting detention from every one of his teachers in the same day seem like an achievement.

When George and Harold hypnotize their principal into thinking that he is the superhero Captain Underpants, he leads them to the lair of the nefarious Dr. Diaper, where they must defeat his evil robot henchmen.

Zeke Bartholomew—a seventh-grade nobody—has always dreamed of being a spy, but when a case of mistaken identity goes horribly wrong, he is thrust into a world of real-life espionage beyond his wildest dreams.

Humorous episodes from the classroom on the thirtieth floor of Wayside School, which was accidentally built sideways with one classroom on each story.

On his first day at Brooklyn’s P.S. 858, fifth-grader Michael K. is teamed with two very strange students, and while he gradually comes to believe they are aliens who need his help, he has trouble convincing anyone else of the truth.

A collection of humorous stories featuring a teenaged mummy, a homicidal turkey, and the world’s largest pool of chocolate milk.

Rob has stuffed his closet with old laboratory experiments, and unread books, and when a creature emerges from that chaos causing a great deal of trouble, Rob has to do such horrible things as visit a library and speak at an assembly to set things right again.

Binky, a beloved house cat, tries to prepare a rocket ship so that he can explore outer space, but he has second thoughts about taking off as he wonders how his owners would protect themselves against aliens if he weren’t there to help them.