juvenile fiction

Eleven-year-old Max Carmody feels he has met his destiny when he sees an announcement for "The Funniest Kid in America" contest, but his quest to create a video that will get him into the running turns into a comedy of errors.

A young girl discusses the characteristics of a place she is going as it relates to her senses, and her friend, a young boy, guesses she is going to the beach when she is actually going to her grandmother's house.

Darby visits her great-grandmother, a healer who lives in the rain forest, connects with a wild mustang, and tries to mend the relationship between her two best friends, which was broken by a secret tragedy.

Gilbert the opossum gets stuck with a tattle-tale, Phillip, on a class trip to Pilgrim Town, but he learns a valuable lesson when he gets stuck in the bathroom.

In the aftermath of a big flood in Alderson County, the Blossom family continues coping in their rare family style.

Sara tries to take care of her younger brother when he is teased and called Bernadette at summer camp, but he finds an activity that he enjoys and that gives him the chance to shed his new nickname for good.

Ruby Day loses her job performing in the international tour of "Bye Bye Birdie" and finds it hard to adjust as a normal seventh grader.

Felicia Hardy, as the Black Cat, encounters Spider-Man while attempting to break her father out of jail.

In 1938, twelve-year-old William has already decided to leave home when his younger sister informs him that she and their brother and sister are going as well, but complications arise as they try to make their way to their Aunt Fiona's house.

Twelve-year-old Esther Atoolik tells of the last winter her people spent on King Island, Alaska, in the early 1960's.