When Ella Mentry School invites a local dentist to speak on National Dessert Day, A.J. and his friends uncover the dentist's secret plot to promote cavities for more business.

Original poems about all kinds of school experiences.

Alexander has just moved into Stermont, but the elementary school is being torn down, his new classroom is located in the hospital morgue, a notebook he finds is full of information about monsters--and everywhere he turns there are spooky balloon men determined to attack him.

Ms. LaGrange talks funny, and she's from some other country called France. She thinks the vomitorium is a fancy restaurant. Plus she's writing secret messages in the mashed potatoes. Ms. LaGrange is the weirdest lunch lady in the history of the world.

When Mrs. Green announces that Friday is class picture day, Hubie spends the rest of the week worrying about how he will look and practicing poses.

It's Valentine's Day! And Mr. Louie, the hippie crossing guard, put a love potion in the water fountain. Now teachers are flirting with each other! Girls are asking boys out on dates! Will A.J. have to kiss Andrea? Not if he can help it. Yuck!

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Phineas L. MacGuire -- scientist extraordinaire -- has a new chore: cooking dinner every night. He may be a genius, but he knows nothing about following a recipe. On top of that, he has to come up with a mouthwatering recipe for a bake-off-- the prize is $10,0000! And to make matters worse, Evan Forbes, the school bully has taken a liking to Phineas' brownies... too much of a liking. Now he wants a new batch of brownies every morning, and if Phineas...

The new music teacher must try to teach A.J. and the rest of his class to play well enough during their recital to impress crabby Dr. Carbles.

Jules is an ordinary seven-year-old girl, concerned with school and friends and other ordinary things--until a chance meeting with a casting director leads to an audition for a television commercial.