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Mercy Watson thinks like a pig

Two sisters move in next door to where Mercy the pig lives, and frustrated when Mercy continues to eat their flowers decide to call for the help of an Animal Control Officer, Francine Poulet, to handle the case.

The big splash

Matt Stevens, an average middle schooler with a glib tongue and a knack for solving crimes, uncovers a mystery while working with "the organization," a mafia-like syndicate run by seventh-grader Vincent "Mr. Biggs" Biggio, specializing in forged hall passes, test-copying rings, black market candy selling, and taking out hits with water guns.

Captain Underpants and the attack of the talking toilets

another epic novel
While sitting in detention, George and Harold accidentally create an army of evil talking toilets, and Principal Krupp's alter ego, Captain Underpants, has to save the world from it.

Teach us, Amelia Bedelia

The very literal minded Amelia Bedelia becomes a substitute teacher for a day.

On top of spaghetti

In an adaptation of the original parody, the hound Yodeler Jones tells what happened when his beloved meatball escaped from a plateful of spaghetti and ended up under a bush outside his restaurant.

Heck

where the bad kids go
When timid Milton and his older, scofflaw sister Marlo die in a marshmallow bear explosion at Grizzly Mall, they are sent to Heck, an otherworldly reform school from which they are determined to escape.

This is the teacher

A cumulative rhyme about a teacher?s day, from the time the students rush in and drop their lunches, spill the ant farm, and let loose a snake until they file out and head for home.

The Hoboken chicken emergency

Arthur goes to pick up the turkey for Thanksgiving dinner but comes back with a 260-pound chicken.

The new kid from the black lagoon

The students in Mrs. Green's class think their new classmate is from Mars and wonder what he will be like, only to be surprised when they find out where he is really from.

Burger Wuss

Hoping to lose his loser image, Anthony plans revenge on a bully which results in a war between two competing fast food restaurants, Burger Queen and O'Dermott's.

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