"When a young Japanese girl moves into her new house, she is happy to see a girl her age playing in the snow just outside her window. The only problem is the Japanese girl doesn't speak English and the American girl doesn't speak Japanese. But each girl's love of the snow teaches them that they don't need to speak the same language to have fun!"--

"During their first week at Camp Pikachu, Marco and his friends on Team Treecko find the perfect secret base: a tree house straight out of Fortree City. They proudly post their team flag out front. But during a game of capture the flag, someone vandalizes their base. Who did it?"--

"When we first met him in Kindergarten in A Squiggly Story, this boy figured out how to tell a story by writing it in squiggles. Now he's in Grade 2, and he's writing another story -- this time, an autobiography for school. Readers will delight in following along on this first-person journey as the boy works through the basic steps for crafting a piece of writing to arrive at his very own Story of Me by Me. With direction from his teacher, advice...

Carmela, finally old enough to run errands with her brother, tries to think of the perfect wish, while his wish seems to be that she stayed home.

"When Gerald's mom says he should get more "involved" at school, he joins the newspaper staff. But reporting on current events is a snooze, until he stumbles onto a few mysteries. Why is Room 117 always locked? What is the disgusting smell coming out of Mr. Zane's briefcase? And . . . why is Gerald's best friend, Sam the Slime, suddenly acting so strangely? Someone has to figure out what's really going on at Mob Middle School. But never fear--Gerald...

"Seraphin, dreaming of gardens full of birdsongs, sunny avenues, and flowers, works as a ticket seller in a metro station underground. One day, after being scolded by the stationmaster for trying to save a butterfly that had flown into the station by accident, he learns that he has inherited an old, dilapidated house and car. Overjoyed by the possibilities, he and his friend Plume set about building the house of their dreams, and much more besides!...

Isabel and Enrique go to their grandmother's house after school, where have great fun together and get thoroughly dirty, but their grandmother takes it all in stride.

Gerald gets in over his head when he starts using his Enchantment skills outside the classroom --