A follow-up to the Newbery Medal-winning Merci Suárez Changes Gears finds Merci embarking on a seventh grade year shaped by high teacher expectations, a crush on a school-store co-worker, and a bossy classmate's plan for the annual Heart Ball.

Juanita and Miguel's great aunt, Tía Lola, comes from the Dominican Republic to help take care of them after their parents divorce, and soon she is so involved in their small Vermont community that when her visa expires, the whole town turns out to support her.

Sixth-grader and self-proclaimed genius Nate Wright faces hhis all-time enemy, Gina, when they are paired to work on a research paper together and she also gets a position on his intramural team.

Greg records his sixth grade experiences in a middle school where he and his best friend, Rowley, undersized weaklings amid boys who need to shave twice daily, hope just to survive, but when Rowley grows more popular, Greg must take drastic measures to save their friendship.

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.

Dwight es un chico que hace muchas cosas raras, como usar la misma camiseta durante un mes o prentender que los demás lo llamen "Capitan Dwight'. Esto es patético, sobre todo para Tommy, que se sienta junto a él durante el almuerzo. Pero hay algo que Dwight hace muy bien, origami. Ha creado un Yoda de papel y lo lleva en el dedo. Y ahi es donde las cosas se ponen misteriosas. Yoda Origami puede predecir el futuro y aconsejar la mejor forma de resolver...

¡Nate el Grande va sobre ruedas! Nate es todo un ídolo de la tropa de los scout ... Hasta que llega Artur (alias Don Perfecto). Ahora Nate va a pasar a ocupar un segundo plano y la presencia de Artur solo le causa problemas. Middle-schooler Nate Wright vies against his rival, the "perfect" Artur, to win the grand prize of a customized skateboard in their scout troop contest.

¿Podrá un inexperto agente encubierto convertirse en un súper espía? Ben Ripley tiene la esperanza de que así sea...¡y su vida podría depender de ello! Twelve-year-old Ben Ripley leaves his public middle school to attend the CIA's highly secretive Espionage Academy, which everyone is told is an elite science school.

Las tediosas vacaciones de verano en la casa de los tíos de Harry todavía no han acabado cuando Harry presiente que algo extraño está sucediento en academia Hogwarts. Cuando por fin comienza otro curso en el famoso colegio de magia y hechicería, sus temores vuelven realidad. As Harry faces his upcoming fifth year at Hogwarts Academy, there are increasing rumors of dark times coming and of Lord Voldemort's return to power, and a secret anti-Voldemort...

"Me llamo A.J., y en mi colegio pasa algo muy raro...El director se ha subido al palo de la bandera, ha besado en la boca a un cerdo, se ha pintado la calva de naranja fosforito... ¡y quiere saltar del tejado vestido de Papá Noel!"--