Vrabel, Beth

Wanting to escape his family life, sixth grader Hayes flies off with his misfit friend Gerty to protect a clonal colony of aspen from a wildfire, but the two quickly realize the importance of everything they tried to leave behind.

Eleven-year-old Raymond devises a plan to spend his summer proving to everyone how brave and confident he is, but will he really be able to change, or is it another lie he tells himself?.

"'The Cub Report' is up and running and getting great response in the sleepy town of Bear Creek, Maine. But when Gordon snaps a photo of an escaped prisoner who is caught in a pigpen, things quickly take a turn for Nellie and her staff. While Nellie fights off jealousy at all the national media attention Gordon is receiving (even from Ellen!) for his amazing shot, the other Cubs are breaking away as parents start questioning the safety (and validity) of a kid-run independent newspaper. But when Gordon's mom and a reporter from another town's newspaper try to shut down 'The Cub Report' for good, Nellie, Gordon, and the club must set aside their issues to save their right to report the news"--Provided by publisher.

After her grandmother, a marvelous storyteller, dies, fourth-grader Trixy, accompanied by her friend Raymond, runs away to learn about her grandmother's mysterious past.

Nellie Murrow wants to start an independent newspaper to research rumors of vandalism and theft in her new town, but making friends may be harder than starting her own newspaper.

"The first eight years of Penelope 'Pipi' McGee's education have been a curriculum in humiliation. From her kindergarten self-portrait as a piece of busty bacon to fourth grade when she peed her pants on a field trip (thanks, vile Kara Samson) to seventh grade where . . . well, she doesn't talk about seventh grade. Ever. Eighth grader Pipi--fearing that her humiliations will follow her into the halls of Northbrook High School next year--decides to use her last year in middle school to clear the slate and to save other innocents from the same picked-on, laughed-at fate. Pipi McGee is seeking redemption, but she'll take revenge, too"--Dust jacket flap.

"After getting in trouble in the eighth grade, five students are assigned by a judge to spend the last day of summer helping out in an assisted living home and manage to forge an unexpected bond with the residents and with each other"--OCLC.

Leaving her best friend and the familiarity of Seattle for the paper mill town of "Stinkville," South Carolina, twelve-year-old Alice, who lives with albinism and blindness, takes on the additional challenge of entering the Stinkville Success Stories essay contest.

"Richie "Ryder" Raymond has a gift. He can find the punchline in any situation, even in his limited vision and prosthetic eye. During the past year at Addison School for the Blind, Ryder's quick wit earned the respect and friendship of his classmates. Heading to mainstream, or "normal," school for eighth grade is going to be awesome... In just the first hour of "normal" school, Ryder is attacked by...Gramp's cat, causes his bio teacher to pass out cold, makes an enemy of town hero Max, and falls for Jocelyn, the fierce girl next door who happens to be Max's girlfriend"---Publisher.

Propelled from coolest to lamest after trying to kiss Tom Lemmings, Lucy tries to navigate the social hierarchy of fourth grade.