Moving on with her Cupcake Club friends despite lingering resentment over being ditched by her former best friend for a more popular group, Katie resolves to confront Callie and struggles to find ways to repair the friendship.

"It's almost the end of sixth grade, and Abby's first year at her new school is ending on a high note--she's a star on the track team, she gets good grades, and she has a great best friend, Chelsea, who knows everything about middle school. So when Chelsea recommends reading her daily horoscope, Abby gives it a try. Soon Miz Astrid's predictions are coming true--and the trouble begins."--P. [4] of cover.

With Brianna Blake, the most popular girl in middle school, leading the race for student council president, accidental candidate Callie Singer doesn't think she has a chance to win until a humiliating incident caused by Brianna leads Callie to come back fighting.

Adam Merkel left a university professorship in Reno to teach middle school in Lovelock seven months before he died. A quiet, seemingly unremarkable man, he connected with just one of his students: Sal Prentiss, a lonely sixth grader who lives with his uncles on a desolate ranch in the hills. The two outcasts developed a tender, trusting friendship that brought each of them hope in the wake of tragedy. But it is Sal who finds Adam’s body, charred...

A bandit is on the loose at 6th-grader Chase Cooper's school. As each day passes, the bandit's reach grows further and further.

Publisher Annotation: In this sequel to Girl Giant and the Monkey King, Thom and her friends set off on a far flung adventure to save the Heavens and the Jade Emperor from certain destruction.

Presents a collection of "Big Nate" comics, following the adventures of Nate as he gets carried away after an accident affords him excess attention.

Publisher Annotation: Riley Flynn is alone. It feels like she's been on her own since sixth grade, when her best friend, Emily, ditched her for the cool girls. Girls who don't like Riley. Girls who decide one day to lock her in the science closet after hours, after everyone else has gone home. When Riley is finally able to escape, however, she finds that her horror story is only just beginning. All the school doors are locked, the windows won't budge,...

The day of the big science fair is approaching at 6th-grader Chase Cooper's school. Science fair projects are disappearing and found later completely destroyed. Now the fate of the science fair rests in Chase's hands.

"Ben Ripley and his friends are training in Alaska when Cyrus Hale is kidnapped by his old Russian nemesis. Ben, Erica, and the others mount a rescue mission, but events quickly spiral out of control in a plot involving the secret history of US-Russian relations, a young KGB agent with skills to rival Erica's--and lots and lots of bears" --