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Miss Nelson Has a Field Day (Viola Swamp decides to whip the football team into shape when they can't win a game); Miss Nelson Is Back (the kids miss their teacher when Viola Swamp takes over for Miss Nelson); The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash (when Jimmy's snake gets loose on a field trip, things aren't quite so boring!); The Dot (one simple drawing becomes something big at the art show); and Amazing Grace (a little girl learns that anything is possible)....

The life of a ten-year old boy expands when he becomes friends with a newcomer who subsequently meets an untimely death. From his sorrow he learns the meaning of friendship.

On his first day at a new school, eleven-year-old Billy goes up against the school bully in a challenge that ends up with a total gross-out date...to eat 10 worms in one day. As the pressure mounts, Billy must summon all his strength to meet the dare, all the while keeping his weak stomach from betraying him and his big mouth from getting him in even more trouble.

Jesse Aarons is in the 5th grade and has trained all summer to become the fastest runner in school. He becomes upset when new classmate Leslie Burke outruns him and everyone else. Despite this and some other striking differences, the two become fast friends. Together, they create Terabithia where they rule as king and queen and is a land filled with monsters, trolls, ogres, and giants. This friendship helps Jesse cope with a tragedy that makes him...

An eccentric schoolteacher takes her class on wonderous educational field trips with the help of a magical schoolbus. Revving up (topic: engines): The school district's Vehicle Maintenance Inspector, Junkett, is about to condemn the Magic School Bus. Under construction (topic: structures): Two inches tall and trapped in a bathroom, the kids must use what they've learned about structures to escape. Gets programmed (topic: computers): Ms. Frizzle's...

Bus, do your stuff! Field trips with Ms. Frizzle are wilder than ever, into space, over to the Galapagos Islands, even a plunge into the depths of the Sun itself.

An eccentric schoolteacher takes her class on wonderous educational field trips with the help of a magical schoolbus. In the city (topic: city critters): Tim thinks the zoo is the only place in the city wild animals can survive. To test this theory Ms. Frizzle turns the class into critters! Cracks a yolk (topic: eggs): The principal goes away for a few days and leaves his chicken, Giblets, in Dorothy Ann's care. The Friz shows the class how eggs...

Based on the classic children's books by Ludwig Bemelmans, this award winning series chronicles the adventures of the little redheaded girl named Madeline, and the teacher and friends with whom she lives in Paris.