At a time when the forces of evil seem to be gaining the upper hand, Harry comes of age in the wizarding world, and must take on and defeat Voldemort--or be killed himself.

Mrs. Connor's class is off on a field trip to pick apples--except one member of the group isn't sure he wants to add to the collection. Can Mrs. Connor and the rest of the kids convince Michael to join in the fun? Full color.

"Middle school is its own important, distinct territory, and yet it's either written off as an uncomfortable rite of passage or lumped in with other developmental phases. Based on her many years working in schools, professional counselor Phyllis Fagell sees these years instead as a critical stage that parents can't afford to ignore (and though "middle school" includes different grades in various regions, Fagell maintains that the ages make more of...

Junie's getting to be a professional lunch lady. That means she gets to hang out with Mrs. Gutzman in the cafeteria, standing behind the counter, and even wearing an actual hair net. This paperback edition includes a Junie B. standee. Illustrations. Consumable.

Middle-schooler Greg Heffley nimbly sidesteps his father's attempts to change Greg's wimpy ways until his father threatens to send him to military school.

Six-year-old Ramona tries to cope with an unsympathetic first-grade teacher.

Fly Guy unintentionally joins Buzz at school, and then goes with his class on a field trip to a fly swatter factory.

Minutes after the principal of Opportunity High School in Alabama finishes her speech welcoming the student body to a new semester, they discover that the auditorium doors will not open and someone starts shooting as four teens, each with a personal reason to fear the shooter, tell the tale from separate perspectives.

Unpopular Nate suffers a broken finger, the middle one, splinted to flip off the world, Claire sees herself sitting in a café filling a journal, but life has other plans for her, a cheerleader dates a closeted basketball star, while antoher one questions where she fits in as a "big girl" and a group of boys scam drivers for beer money without remorse, or so it seems, all happening in one day in a small town.