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Instead of playing tennis, seventeen-year-old Jeff is required to spend his summer working on an Oregon strawberry farm where new friendships with field hands and migrant workers, as well as the farmer's daughter, change his outlook.

While Rose's mother has a "quick chat" on the telephone, Rose is supposed to get ready for bed but finds she is hosting a party instead.

During Fun with Food Week in her school science class, second-grader Beetle McGrady tries to work up the courage to eat an ant.

Miss Switch the witch returns to save Rupert and the entire sixth grade from the evil Saturna, who is operating a sinister web site and has installed her brother as principal of the school.

Looking in her fourth grade class for a girl to be her best friend, Claudia is surprised when her new companion turns out to be a boy two years younger.

When Rupert's friend Amelia is kidnapped by Mordo the warlock, Miss Switch the witch returns in the guise of a substitute teacher to help him rescue her.

A scientifically-minded fifth grader finds himself in a frightening predicament when he proves that his teacher is a witch.

Thirteen-year-old Ricky, the Mexican American son of a former Drug Enforcement Agency man, tries to avenge his mother's murder by crossing over into Mexico to steal a high-tech radar plane from drug smugglers.

When the Apache surrounded the settlement of Alma, New Mexico, the "respectable" townsfolk began hanging those who weren't. Town drunk Eddie Oates was lucky to be banished from the town, left for the Apaches to kill. Oates never thought he was a survivor. But now, he's discovered a reason to go on--and he's about to unleash a raging fury upon those who would prey on the helpless, the hopeless, and those who others think aren't worth fighting for.

Grey Sommers is conducting a bit of light espionage in France when a dalliance with a government official's wife gets him thrown into a dungeon. Enter beguiling spy Cassie Fox, sent to free the suffering lord--and perhaps to liberate his heart.