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"When the Heffleys agree to spend summer break with both Mom's and Dad's relatives at the same time, they have to figure out how to be in two places at once. With Greg caught in the middle, can the Heffleys pull off the ultimate scheme? Or will their vacation turn into a hilarious hot mess?"--Provided by Publisher.

Homeschooled by his hippie grandmother, Capricorn (Cap) Anderson has never watched television, tasted a pizza, or even heard of a wedgie. But when his grandmother lands in the hospital, Cap is forced to move in with a guidance counselor and attend the local middle school. While Cap knows a lot about tie-dyeing and Zen Buddhism, no education could prepare him for the politics of public school.

Evelyn befriends Queen, the new boy in town, who does not seem to get fazed by bullies and lives by his own rules, and soon begins to learn new things about the world and herself.

Marty Pants returns to face his archenemy Simon, the so-called school artist, in his third adventure! How is Simon turning their classmates, teachers, and even the mayor against Marty - could it be magic Is Simon literally a charmer who is charming people with magic charms With Simon using magical powers to turn everyone against him, it will be up to Marty to stop this madness before Simon controls the whole world and maybe even the space-time continuum!...

The name's Chase Cooper, and this is my tenth diary as a 6th grade ninja. A few days have passed since the green ninja clan appeared, but that's more than enough time for them to give me a headache. It doesn't help that my attention is stretched between a crazy robotics competition, an annoying pirate poser, and the ex-leader of the red ninja clan. Somehow Wyatt and I have found ourselves on the same side of the fence this time, but we've made a deal...

Someone steals the book bag of 6th-grader Chase Cooper and things get worse from there. Now Chase is number one on the Buchanan School's most wanted list and he discovers the Red Ninja Clan. Ninjas never quit - and neither do their enemies.

After summer, Charlie Lawson expects to go back to the boredom of middle school, but he stumbles on an abandoned warehouse, where he befriends a twenty-foot-tall teenage giant.

A must-read for budding young feminists, The Prettiest is an incisive, empowering novel by Brigit Young about young women fighting back against sexism and objectification. THE PRETTIEST: It's the last thing Eve Hoffmann expected to be, the only thing Sophie Kane wants to be, and something Nessa Flores-Brady knows she'll never be . . . until a list appears online, ranking the top fifty prettiest girls in the eighth grade. Eve is disgusted by the way...

"Eleven-year-old Rodney is starting sixth grade in a new school, in a new home in a new state...It's strange, because just a couple of months ago, Rodney was one of the most popular guys in his fifth-grade class. He lived in Las Vegas, with his mom, older sister and his dad, who was a successful professional poker player. Now his old life is over -- his mom even says they shouldn't tell anyone their real last name...His dad says it's all a big misunderstanding...Rodney...

Seventh-grade honor student Sierra Shepard faces expulsion after accidentally bringing a paring knife to school, violating the school's zero-tolerance policy.