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After his fight with Randy Betancourt makes headlines in the school paper, Big Nate has a problem worse than detention on his hands.

When his habitual sloppiness gets a friend into trouble, the "sixth-grade detention king" decides to clean up his act and his hazardous waste zone of a locker, causing everyone around him to think that Nate has lost his mind.

Each of five children lucky enough to discover an entry ticket into Mr. Willy Wonka's mysterious chocolate factory takes advantage of the situation in his own way.

When Rafe Khatchadorian enters middle school, he teams up with his best friend, "Leo the Silent, " to create a game to make school more fun by trying to break every rule in the school's code of conduct.

Dr. James Incandenza, scientist turned filmmaker, creates a movie so entertaining viewers cannot quit watching and literally die laughing. After he commits suicide, his sons hustle to keep the film away from a revolutionary who hopes to destroy the society of the Organization of North American Nations, a union of Canada and the U.S.

A naughty seed with a bad attitude, bad temper, and bad manners vows to change his life for the better, but his efforts are met with skepticism by his friends.

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.

The kindness and determination of the Little Blue Engine have inspired millions of children around the world since the story was first published in 1930. Cherished by readers for ninety years, The Little Engine That Could is a classic tale of a little engine that, despite her size, triumphantly pulls a train full of wonderful things to the children waiting on the other side of a mountain. This anniversary edition features the original text, all-new...

All over the world, animals are going crazy, viciously attacking humans and transforming entire cities into vast killing fields of human prey. After witnessing a savage lion attack, young New York biologist Jackson Oz realizes that these outbreaks have a hidden root cause, but at first his warnings go unheeded while the slaughters continue to escalate.

An unmanageable, but lovable, eleven-year-old misfit learns to believe in himself when he gets to know the new school counselor, who is a sort of misfit too.