Mr. Macky dresses up as Abraham Lincoln to get the students at Ella Menty School excited about their Presidents' Day oral reports.

As the new computer lab teacher tries to bring Ella Mentry School into the twenty-first century with her peculiar inventions, second-grader A.J. struggles to survive without sugary snacks when principal Klutz bans junk food.

Anxious to see what life is like outside the zoo, Sammy the seal explores the city, goes to school, and plays with the children but decides that there really is no place like home.

"Ghostly Tombs" newspaper reporter Dirk Bones, who also happens to be a skeleton, investigates when two ghosts fear that they are being haunted.

"Marisol loves to paint. So when her teacher asks her to help make a mural for the school library, she can't wait to begin! But wait-how can Marisol ever make a sky without blue paint? After gazing out the bus window and watching from her porch as day turns into night, she closes her eyes and starts to dream"--

Max has a wonderful time when he accepts his friend Zoe's invitation to join her and her grandparents for dinner.

Having lost his mother and his hearing in a short time, twelve-year-old Ben leaves his Minnesota home in 1977 to seek the father he never knew in New York City, and meets there Rose, who is also longing for something missing from her life. Ben's story is told in words; Rose's in pictures.

Because she does exactly as she is told, Amelia Bedelia is fired from one job after another.

On the last day of second grade, Song Lee's party at the local amusement park forces Harry to face his fear of elevators when he is expected to ride the Drop of Doom.

Max likes riding the bus to and from school.