elementary schools

In their effort to combat monsters, Alexander, Rip, and Nikki take on their latest batch of ghouls--creatures known as shadow smashers. While they contend with this new threat, however, Alex worries that one of his friends may be a monster in disguise, and must find out the truth.

In the year since Alexander and his father moved to Stermont, he and his friends in the Super Secret Monster Patrol of Stermont Elementary have defeated all kinds of monsters, but now they face their greatest challenge, the boss-monster who has kidnapped fellow monster fighter Ms. Vanderpants and stolen the Notebook of Doom--and they have to do it before Alexander turns eight and stops being able to see monsters.

Mal tries to help Chad, his talking dog, defeat the monster that has been tormenting his dreams and invents a dream portal, but instead of defeating the creature, Mal manages to bring it back through the portal and into reality.

Annoyed because his mother has been packing boring, healthy lunches, third-grader Zeke has not made either a card or a gift for Mother's Day--then at the last moment he has a change of heart and has to scramble to make both.

It is career day at school and Rawr the T-rex comes in his superhero cape and belt, because a superhero who saves the day is what he wants to be--or maybe an astronaut.

It is time for the school bake-off, with a trip to the Bronx Zoo as a prize, and fourth-grade psychic Krystal Ball and her best friends are making fortune cookies--but when the class bully ruins their contribution, Krystal must use her talents to save the day.

Krystal Ball of Queens, New York, is looking forward to her tenth birthday party, but she is worried that nobody will come because her psychic dreams make her seem weird. Then a flood in her friend Billy's apartment damages her apartment and it looks like the party will never happen.

Born into a family of over-achievers, fifth-grader Allie Velasco has never finished first in anything, and lately things have been going badly: her science project is ruined by a well-meaning student, her former best friend is hanging out with another girl--but now she is determined to win the Trailblazer contest with a photographic presentation about her great grandfather, the first Congressional Medal of Honor winner from their town.

Adam, a dyslexic fourth-grader, is artistically talented, but he has a lot of trouble with the writing--unfortunately the upcoming test involves writing an essay, so he turns to his three friends, the Worry Warriors, to help him conquer his anxiety and prepare for the test.

Humorous poetry related to the activities of elementary classrooms related to themes such as the first day back at school, going to see the school nurse, and not being picked last.