Green, D. L

"When twelve-year-old Violet's dad walks out, she faces the aftermath the only way she knows how: with pie and math. But family and friendship turn out to have are more variables than she thought"--Provided by publisher.

"When twelve-year-old Violet's dad walks out, she faces the aftermath the only way she knows how: with pie and math. But family and friendship turn out to have are more variables than she thought"--Provided by publisher.

Zeke's class is having a talent show, and Brassy Glass, from America's Next Superstar, will be coming to the show as the judge, but Zeke cannot figure out what talent he actually has and, as usual, his sisters are no help at all.

Zeke wants to bring home the class hamster, so to prove that he is responsible he promises his mother that he will take care of the family dog for a whole week--after that it is one disaster after another.

Zeke's third grade class is putting on a play and Zeke is unhappy and annoyed with what he sees as too small a role, until his mother teaches him the meaning of the saying "there are no small parts, only small actors.".

As if coming up with a school project at the last minute is not enough trouble, Zeke also has to deal with his cousin Sam--who is just too perfect to be completely believable.

With a homework pass as the prize, everyone in Shelby Bloom's fourth grade class wants to win the talent show, especially Shelby and her nemesis, Brooke; after Brooke sabotages Shelby's stand-up comedy act, Shelby and her friend Ajay decide to join forces in a comedy skit--and plot their revenge on Brooke.

Disturbed by her student's rude behavior Shelby's fourth grade teacher decides to give out a "Good Person Award," and Shelby and her nemesis Brooke are instantly in a competition with each other; the trouble is that most of their ideas about being a good person do not actually involve helping or being polite to other people--but in the end Shelby finds that what she does best is to make people laugh.

Ten-year-old Shelby Bloom loves jokes but she is horrified when her mother posts an embarrassing video of her, a video that mean girl Brooke makes sure everyone at school sees. Shelby does not like being the laughingstock, and she does not like being paired with Brooke's best friend, Tessa, on a school health project, but it turns out there are compensations, and soon Shelby has the class laughing with her instead of at her.

Thirteen-year-old Kaitlyn Perez is a very professional and well organized babysitter, but suddenly she finds herself in competition with a boy and the only thing she knows about him is that his nickname is Doc. He lets the kids he is babysitting run wild, and he is probably in her class--and that is only the beginning, as the stress causes her to quarrel with both her best friend, Piper, and her sister, Eve.