Lay Lay loves the spotlight, but she's a normal kid, too. So, when her middle school announces its upcoming talent show, she and her friends can't wait to sign up. As a bonus, everyone who enters can choose a cause to receive all the money from ticket sales! Then Lay Lay and her friends learn the historic Hayes Theater is being torn down. Now they have two lofty goals -- win the talent show and save the theater at the same time! But juggling fame,...

Seventh-grader Amy Flowers is not happy that she is stuck teaching health to first-graders for her service project while her best friends get to help at the community garden, specially since her partners are the Queen of Mean Fiona and preppie Preston.

"Terence Kato is a prodigy bass player, but he's determined to finish middle school on a high note. Life has other plans. In eighth grade, he's forced to transfer from a private arts school to a public school, where the kids seemingly speak a different language. Luckily, Terence knows a universal one: music. He sets out to build a rock band and, in the process, make a few friends. However, great music and great friendships aren't always in harmony"--Publisher's...

Kat was looking forward to life at posh Dover Academy in Massachusetts, where her father is the new middle school science teacher, but she's snubbed on the first day and her dad and is targeted by blackmailers who want better grades. Not to be defeated, Kat teams up with her new friend Mouse, a rebellious computer nerd, to find the culprits before her father gets fired.

It's brother versus sister, trapped in the wilderness of middle school, vying for survival! Who has the best advice on bullies? Who totally cracks the dress code? Who's got all the right dance moves? Who's the cleverest Khatchadorian in town? Let the battle begin!

Ten-year-old Nort McKrakken is a pint-sized computer genius and madcap inventor. Fourteen-year-old Chip Munson is his best friend and loyal guinea pig. When Nort creates C.H.I.P.--a microsized computer thingy--and sticks it on his best friend's tooth, it turns Chip into a real-life secret agent. With Chip's C.H.I.P. and Nort's brain, the pair is ready for anything... even middle school. In the first My Best Friend Is a Secret Agent book, Nort and...

Hoping to impress Roxie with his dazzling project on bacteria, seventh-grader-to-be Wilmer Dooley enters the state science fair, where he encounters his archnemesis Claudius, who may be planning something terribly sinister.

A thieving bandit is on the loose at 6th-grader Chase Cooper's school. As each day passes, the bandit's reach grows further and further. "Zoe says I should stay out of it ... but staying out of trouble isn't my style. My name is Chase Cooper, and I'm a 6th grade ninja."