When Tommy is sent to a special camp to make him into a "winner," he discovers that his fellow campers are competitive to the point of obsession, and that a particular teacher, Mrs. Maargh, takes winning very seriously.
When Libby meets a cute boy named Cedric while they both are out walking their dogs, she relies on the luck in her and her friends' lucky charm bracelet to become his friend--even though their families are rivals in the candy shop business.
A fourteen-year-old Minnesota farm boy has to figure out how to get along with the arch-rival in his love life and on the baseball diamond, and both boys must learn how to deal with the unfair expectations of their fathers.
A collection of four children's novels in which the girls of the Claymore Middle School cheerleading team deal with the challenges of school, boys, and the squad.
When her father loses his job, thirteen-year-old Ellen and her family are forced to move from the suburbs to her grandmother's in the city. Ellen does not expect to have anything in common with the street-smart city kids until her old school and new school are in fierce competition with each other.
Rod resents Ernesto for stealing everything he worked so hard to achieve, like being elected senior class president, and he decides to take revenge by making Ernesto's life miserable.