D. L Green

Third-grader Zeke Meeks needs to win the prize in the science project contest because the class bully is threatening him, but so far all his ideas are ending in messy disasters--can his friend Hector save the day?

As if coming up with a school project at the last minute is not enough trouble, Zeke also has to deal with his cousin Sam--who is just too perfect to be completely believable.

Zeke wants to bring home the class hamster, so to prove that he is responsible he promises his mother that he will take care of the family dog for a whole week--after that it is one disaster after another.

Nine-year-old Tori is thrilled to be spending the summer at her grandmother's ranch, even if she has to share a room with her younger sister Miranda, who is eight--there is a beautiful, but very nervous, new pony called Jewel that she would love to ride, but her grandmother feels that this pony is just too much for a child.

All the children in the third grade except Zeke Meeks are playing with the newest fad, Puppet Pals finger puppets--will Zeke give in to the pressure and join them, even though he would much rather play basketball?

Ten-year-old Shelby Bloom's family has just moved from Ohio to Los Angeles where she will be forced to share a room with her eleven-year-old sister Lila (ugh!), and try and make friends in her new school (hopeless, especially for a girl who likes to tell jokes)--but Ajay, the boy across the street has a dog and likes to laugh, and two horse-loving girls (who have never actually ridden a horse) invite her to the local riding stables, and suddenly Los...

Disturbed by her student's rude behavior Shelby's fourth grade teacher decides give out a "Good Person Award," and Shelby and her nemesis Brooke are instantly in a competition with each other; the trouble is that most of their ideas about being a good person do not actually involve helping or being polite to other people--but in the end Shelby finds that what she does best is to make people laugh.

Ten-year-old Shelby Bloom loves jokes but she is horrified when her mother posts an embarrassing video of her, a video that mean girl Brooke makes sure everyone at school sees--Shelby does not like being the laughingstock, and she does not like being paired with Brooke's best friend, Tessa, on a school health project, but it turns out there are compensations, and soon Shelby has the class laughing with her instead of at her.

With a homework pass as the prize, everyone in Shelby Bloom's fourth grade class wants to win the talent show, especially Shelby and her nemesis, Brooke; after Brooke sabotages Shelby's stand-up comedy act, Shelby and her friend Ajay decide to join forces in a comedy skit--and plot their revenge on Brooke.