For use in schools and libraries only. Two middle-grade kids take a shortcut home from school and discover what looks like fuzzy mud but is actually a substance with the potential to wreak havoc on the entire world.

Nine-year-old Marvin Redpost has finally figured out why he has red hair and blue eyes, while everyone else in his family has brown hair and brown eyes. He is not really Marvin Redpost. He is Robert, the lost prince of Shampoon....

Follows the adventures and misadventures of students and staff as they cope with the effects of a large, gloomy cloud that has settled over Wayside School.

He may be the weirdest kid in school, but he's not completely hopeless! The triumph of Bradley Chalkers, the weird, insecure bully of the fifth grade, will appeal to every reader who's cheered for--or been--the underdog. Winner of...

New edition of Japanese translation of Louis Sachar's Holes. The boy Stanley was sentenced to a correctional camp in the middle of a dry lake, and learns a lot about life, friendship, and holes. It is a multi-award winner...

As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure,...