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Sam Campbell's school team, the Laggan Lairds, always loses. When someone suggests that their name be the Laggan Lard Butts, Sam thinks the team should change its name. What is a Laird anyway?

Seven-year-old Christina desperately wants a dog. When she visits a kennel with her parents, she comes home with Prince, a greyhound recently retired from his champion racing career.

Jinjoli está feliz cuando Brent la invita a salir, pero no tanto cuando los rumores empiezan a correr por la escuela.

At the end of The True Story of George, George, a small plastic man, went for a ride on a rocket and flew apart. Now, with Katie and Mackenzie’s help, all his parts must find each other.

Life is smoothest for thirteen-year-old Ellie when she keeps her opinions to herself, gets good grades and speaks carefully when her parents ask her to settle their arguments.

The year is 1909 and Joseph has just immigrated to the United States from Russia.

More than anything, Max wants to play hockey like he used to. But since the death of his dad, Max has to take his special-needs brother, Duncan, with him everywhere he goes.

Since moving hundreds of miles to a new school, Daria has become increasingly dependent on her cell phone.

Kelly loves the cabin she has made from a refrigerator box. It has a window with curtains, pictures on the walls, a cabin-sized table and a wonderful view.

In most ways, Poe is like the other kids in his school. He thinks about girls and tries to avoid teachers. He hangs out at the coffee shop with his best friend after school.

Robin can hardly wait for her cousin April and her Aunty Liz to come to the ranch for Christmas.

When a stink bomb at school provides Angus with a chance to talk to Ella Eckles, he claims to share her interest in reading facial expressions.

Bobsledder Josh Gantz is accused of deliberately injuring a fellow competitor and might be thrown out of the sport, right before the World Cup.

The first flash mob Ian puts together himself is a sixty-plus person, four-minute pillow fight in a department store.

Junior Canadian Ranger Tommy Toner has a terrible secret. During the annual JCR summer camp in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, he plays a prank which has unexpected and destructive results.