Dan Gutman

When the power goes out in the school, everyone panics in the dark, and only nerdy Mr. Harrison, who can fix and build anything, can save the day.

When boring Mr. Loring retires, A.J.'s class gets a new music teacher who raps, break-dances, and thinks he has what it takes to become a famous musician.

When Joe travels back in time to 1944, he meets the Milwaukee Chicks, one of the only all-female professional baseball teams in the history of the game.

Four fifth-grade students--a geek, a class clown, a teacher's pet, and a slacker--as well as their teacher and mothers, each relate events surrounding a computer programmed to complete homework assignments.

When the new vice principal is put in charge of Ella Mentry School for a few days, she tries out some very unusual ideas about how students learn.

When a British student-teacher arrives, A. J. and his friends wonder if her all-black clothing and love of blood sausage mark her as a vampire, while Mr. Granite simply hopes her musician-boyfriend will stay away long enough for a math lesson.

A.J. is certain that nothing can be more boring than an overnight field trip to the natural history museum, but changes his mind once his second-grade class arrives and meets the eccentric tour guide, Ms. Krup.

Genius twins Coke and Pepsi McDonald embark on a trip to Graceland and are horrified by the reappearance of their supposedly deceased arch nemesis Dr. Herman Warsaw, who marries their aunt Judy.

Life at Ella Mentry School gets a lot more interesting when the self-proclaimed nerd Mrs. Yonkers takes over the computer lab, and a new rule goes into effect banning all junk food.

Twins Dawn and Dusk Rosenberg live for hockey and worship the Montreal Canadians. When their dad gets the family tickets to the next Canadians game, they can't believe their luck. They're even more excited when they hear about the million dollar contest. A randomly chosen fan will get the chance to shoot a goal to win one million dollars. Could this be the beginning of a dream come true for Dawn and Dusk-or the biggest humiliation of their lives?