Beth Vrabel

Leaving her best friend and the familiarity of Seattle for the paper mill town of "Stinkville, " South Carolina, twelve-year-old Alice, who lives with albinism and blindness, takes on the additional challenge of entering the Stinkville Success Stories essay contest.

After her grandmother, a marvelous storyteller, dies, fourth-grader Trixy, accompanied by her friend Raymond, runs away to learn about her grandmother's mysterious past.

After getting in trouble in the eighth grade, five students are assigned by a judge to spend the last day of summer helping out in an assisted living home and manage to forge an unexpected bond with the residents and with each other.

"Sheldon convinces Lucy, Sam, April, and Amanda to join him at a weeklong sleep-away summer camp--Camp Paleo: Live Like a Caveman. Like cavemen, they're going to have to make do without air conditioning or a heated pool. They'll learn archery and dig for fossils"-- Provided by publisher.

Ostracized after his mother's drunk driving conviction and his own behavior afterwards, twelve-year-old Noah begins making a fresh start while helping save a bear.--Provided by Publisher.

Shortly after Nellie Murrow, named for one of the fiercest journalists who ever lived and daughter of two (former) newspaper reporters, move to sleepy Bear Creek, Maine, rumors of vandalism and attacks at the only park in town are keeping Nellie saddled to the house. Some townspeople say the attacks are gang recruitments. Others blame a vagrant spotted on the hiking trails around town. But when Nellie thinks like a reporter, none of those explanations...

Perry and his troublemaking family's swindling ways keep them on a never-ending vacation full of cons and schemes, leaving him to wonder if it is too late to change his fate.

"A group of kid reporters fight for their right to run a newspaper in the second book of the middle-grade Newspaper Club series from an award-winning author."--Provided by publisher.