Eaton Stanley is a weird kid whose head is packed with bizarre trivia. Brian finds him a little trying, but fascinating too. Against his better judgement, he gets involved in Eaton's latest science project: to take control of their teacher's mind. Imagine Brian's surprise when Eaton's plan seems to work! By the author of the Cam Jansen Mystery Series.

Colin is a shoe-in for the "Stinkiest Sneakers in the World" contest. He has been promoting odor in a serious way - skipping socks, jogging for maximum juice factor, and not washing his feet - but at the eleventh hour, his stinky sneakers are missing in action!

Paul's parents have abandoned him at Burnside Academy. It is a boarding school, but it seems more like a nuthouse, complete with a brainy roommate who believes he can fly, a school paper specializing in lies, sporting events such as checkers in the snow, and teachers crazier than the students.

Owen Foote's grandfather was a professional strongman, able to bend iron bars with his bare hands; Owen is the smallest kid in his class. Last year on "height and weight day," Mrs. Jackson the school nurse called him a pip-squeak and he is still trying to live it down. This year's day of measurement approaches like the day of doom and Owen is headed for serious trouble. Readers will root for this hilarious hero, and revel in his further adventures in Owen Foote, Frontiersman and Owen Foote, Soccer Star.

Do you have a secret identity? Rachel does. One day in the park she is invited to join a secret group of intrepid intergalactic adventurers: the Defenders of the Universe, sworn to protect Earth and all other planets from any danger. Rachel and her new friends Packrat, Cranium, Animal Princess, U.N., and Captain Hero have a great time until a real-life villain with a dastardly plot makes them into true heroes.

Horrible Harry, class clown, has a deep dark secret: he is terrified of elevators. The end of school trip to the amusement park is great... until Harry must face his fear to ride "The Drop of Doom." Follow Harry's further adventures in Horrible Harry and the Purple People, Horrible Harry and the Dungeon, and Horrible Harry and the Ant Invasion, to name just a few.

Justin Zeckendorf and the rest of his fourth-grade class are in a contest, a good deed contest. Justin is full of good intentions and wild ideas that go disastrously wrong. Can he and his partners win the contest with the ultimate good deed?

Best friends Gwen and Jill are making a movie, a scary movie. At least they're trying. None of their ideas are truly terrifying, until... Gwen decides to make The Night of the Living Salami. Things are going well, or are they? Mysterious problems arise - is someone trying to sabotage the film?

"Wicked Uncle Jasper was a villain by profession. He had seven sons, all boys, and all named after great villains of history - Caligula, Nero, Genghis, Tarquin, Belshazzar, Adolph and little Jack. Naturally, their father wanted them to follow in his wicked footsteps and sent them to a very select School for Villains, but it was idle to pretend that they were doing at all well." Jasper's virtuous brother Julian is equally disappointed in his wild, tomboyish daughter, Prudence. When robots seeming to embody the pinnacle of parental hopes enter each household, Jasper and Julian are overjoyed. Chaos quickly follows. Perhaps their own children aren't so bad after all!

William has an amazing tooth. It receives radio stations, right there in his mouth. It could be fixed, but William thinks it is pretty cool just the way it is. Suddenly, the tooth begins to pick up signals from another source: outer space! Thousands of fat spacemen in plaid sports jackets are about to invade Earth bringing with them an endless appetite for junk food. Can William save the planet?

Have you heard of the Moosepire? According to locals in the remote northern town of Yellowtooth, Eric the Dead is an enormous vampire moose who lies in wait for unwary travelers, sucking the wax from their ears and causing them to go insane, or worse. Could it really be so?

Poor Marvin! Someone has started a rumour that he picks his nose and no matter what he does or says, the laughter and teasing never stop. Even Marvin's best friends won't stick up for him. Marvin will either have to move to a new school, or find a way to live down his reputation as king of the nose-pickers.

Wayside School is just a bit odd. To begin with, the builder made a tiny mistake... instead of putting thirty classrooms next to one another in a row, he built them one on top of the other - the school is thirty stories high! But the students and teachers are even stranger. Right now it seems to be raining substitute teachers - Mr. Gorf (why does he have three nostrils?), Mrs Drazil (who remembers unfinished homework - even fifteen years later!), and Miss Nogard (an unbelievably nasty lady who reads minds!). Life is never dull at Wayside School. Readers may also enjoy Sideways Stories from Wayside School.

Fred, Sam and Joe, the "Time Warp Trio", are off on another adventure. This time their summer reading list has fallen into "The Book" and its magic has transported our heroes to Hoboken where they meet a 266-pound chicken, the Headless Horseman, and Peter Rabbit, along with every other character from every book on the reading list! Will the guys make it home? Can they return the escaped characters to their rightful books? The "Time Warp Trio" is featured in a series of exciting escapades through time and space. Be sure to read It's all Greek to Me, Your Mother was a Neanderthal, and more.

Nicholas Bells is covered with freckles - 5792 of them. Nicholas can't stand them, or the teasing he gets because of them. In desperation, he makes a deal with the mysterious Mr. Piddlesticks, who promises to remove them forever. But L.A.F. (Life After Freckles) seems even worse. To top it all off, Nicholas discovers the freckles hold magic, a magic now controlled by Mr. Piddlesticks, whose intentions are far from good!

"My mom is always saying, 'Joseph Wolfgang Storch, you are a wild animal!' My dad is always saying, 'No, I will not show you how to make contact explosives!' My sister Louise is always saying, 'Mom, make Joey stop!' My friend Zachary is always saying, 'Think Before you talk, Spider!' Ms. Mirabella is always saying, 'Joey, sit down.'" Joey "Spider" Storch has a lot of energy. Has he worn out Ms. Mirabella? Is she retiring because of him? Was it the time he tried to light Mary Grace Brennerman's hair on fire, or the time he pretended to be kidnapped? The time he dared Travis to stick a raisin up his nose and saw him carted off to the hospital? Spider is determined to stop his favourite teacher from leaving, but how?