Mary Maloney is fourteen years old and an excellent runner. She wins all her races on the girls' team at school. Now Mary wants to race against boys. But nobody believes Mary can do it—not her friends,...

Benny is the best dog in the world. Just ask his owner, 15-year old Danny Brooks. Danny is not the best boy in the world—he's had trouble with the police, and he never has enough money. Danny's life as...

16-year old Marcus has a nice house in Florida and a mother who loves him. But he isn't doing well. He's bored with his friends. He's rude to his neighbors. His mother worries that, just maybe, her son...

"Had had!" Ten seconds later, he was dead.Milan Schwab, a Czech language student, stumbles into his English class, utters this mysterious phrase, and dies. Daniel, his teacher, tries to figure out how...

The Waterbridge Wildcats are a good basketball team. But they need new shoes, new shirts, and new equipment. They need money! Madeline Flowers owns Bango Burgers. She wants to sponsor the Wildcats. She'll...

13-year old Ryan doesn't want to visit his grandparents. He's not interested in old people. Old people are boring! He wants to play computer games. His best friend Ashraf misses his grandparents—they're...

Maria wonders about the sad man who sits in the café where she works. Who is he? Where is he from? What does he do? One day, she talks to him, and is surprised to learn that he is Georgie Goode, the famous...

Sixteen-year-old Brad Forest is moving again; this time his mother has a job in Slovakia. Does this mean yet another boring international school for Brad? Not this time! Things in Slovakia are a little...