For Ruby Pepperdine, the center of everything is on the rooftop of Pepperdine Motors, stargazing from the circle of her grandmother Gigi's hug. That's how everything is supposed to be--until it goes spinning out of control. Now Ruby's best friend, Lucy, is mad at her. Her new friendship with Nero is pretty bumpy too. Worst of all, Ruby regrets what happened with Gigi. How Ruby didn't listen. And now it's too late to make things right. But Ruby has...

A child looks back on a day at the beach and drifts off to sleep, one body part at a time.

Twelve-year-old Victor Spoil comes from a long line of famous supervillains and he's fully expected to join their ranks one day. But Victor doesn't have a single bad-guy bone in his body. As a last-ditch effort before they give up and let him be a--gasp!--civilian, Victor's exasperated parents send him to apprentice under a disgraced supervillain called The Smear. When the stakes get high as Victor is forced to choose between his mentor and his family...

When his parents call off the family vacation and enroll their son in a creative writing class instead, twelve-year-old Steve comes up with a wacky moneymaking project.

First-grader Monty Morris includes his new baby sister in a school project, gives his mother a surprising gift, gets a little more than he can handle with his friend Joey's dogs, and learns that sometimes a day filled with excitement is not the best thing.

When Nancy, the girl who loves to use fancy words, learns about Earth Day and "being green," her enthusiasm causes problems at home.

When Ellie's parents go out of town, she's forced to go camping with her aunt, uncle, cousins, and baby brother, Ben-Ben. Ellie can handle mosquitoes and poison ivy, but sharing a cabin with her annoying relatives? No way! From her aunt's strict rules to her cousin Eric's constant teasing and gross pranks, Ellie needs her sketch diary to survive this family vacation!

Jack finds it hard to believe when his parents tell him the weird changes in his older brother, Stephen, are normal for teenagers, and his suspicions are confirmed when pets start disappearing and strange noises come from the attic while Stephen is supposedly away at school.

The town’s annual Turkey Trot race and festival is coming up, and Judy and Stink are training to win. Judy has decided that she is going to take home the big prize: a fat, juicy turkey. Beep! Beep! Beep! That’s the sound of Stink’s Rapidfire Ultra XE611M25 stopwatch going off as Judy and Stink hop, crawl, and climb toward race day. But what if they don’t win a mouthwatering bird? What then? Will the Moody family end up starving on T-day, like...

Coke and Pepsi McDonald never expected to be abducted by aliens. They never expected to be trapped with a venomous snake, either. And they certainly never expected to be pushed through a deadly turbine or thrown into a volcano. But what can you do when a nefarious villain is after you? The wackiest road trip in history has reached its final destination.