Sam uses a great deal of initiative to make just the right birthday present for his mother.
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Gooney Bird Greene finds the needed room mother so that their Thanksgiving play can go on. The one hitch, however, is that this person remains incognito until the day of the pageant.
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Once Mrs. Pidgeon has shared Aesop's fables with the second graders in her class, Gooney Bird comes up with the idea to have the children write their own.
The narrator, 10-year-old Annemarie, and her family defy the Nazis as Danish Jews are gathered for transport to death camps. They help Annemarie's best friend, Ellen Rosen, and her family escape to Sweden.
When Mrs. Krupnik announces to Sam that his fangs (the Halloween variety) are simply not acceptable to her (she has a fang hang-up, you see), Sam decides to run away from home.
Fifteen-year-old Luther's mother, The Sarge, rules an empire of halfway houses and slums. Luther himself is a much more ordinary guy, though he is caught between being a typical teen and being the Sarge's son.
Young Bud runs away from the latest and worst foster home in search of his father. Though he doesn't find his father, Bud (not Buddy) does find family, music, and more on his long trek across Michigan during the Depression.
Eleven-year-old Elijah was born in Buxton, a Canadian settlement that was the final stop on the Underground Railroad. The free child of slaves, Elijah reveals his growing awareness of the horrors of slavery on his journey to young adulthood.
Could it be real? A quadrillion dollar bill? In this funny, fast-paced tall tale, nine-year-old Steven, helper and friend of his blind neighbor, Mr. Chickee, solves the mystery of this strange money.
The Flint Future Detectives are back for another wacky adventure in which the dog owned by Steven's friend, Russell (first introduced in Mr. Chickee's Funny Money) inadvertently launches an out-of-this-world series of events.