Claudia Mills

Vera Vance gets the chance of a lifetime when her mother allows her to go to an after-school comics camp, even though she doesn't think the camp is really that educational. Vera's new friend Nixie encourages her, and Vera creates her own little comic, "The Secret Life of Little Spoon." The camp teachers announce a field trip to a local comic-con where the campers will be able to show off their creations, but Vera's mother says she cannot go. Somehow,...

Boogie Bass doesn't think he's very good at anything until he joins the American Sign Language camp at his school. He discovers he's a natural and when his class visits a school for the Deaf, he is able to form a bridge between his hearing classmates and the deaf students.

Annika hopes to change her best friends' hatred of math by winning a Sudoku contest, but she does not realize how important their lack of mathematical ability is until they make a mistake at the school carnival.

Here's the third entry in Claudia Mills' charming middle-grade series. Mason Dixon survived the school choir. He survived adopting his now-beloved dog named, uh, Dog. But now he faces his biggest challenge yet: joining the local basketball team. Not by choice, of course. Not only do his parents encourage it, but his dad even volunteers to be his coach. Now, with his best pal Brody and a team of misfits even worse at basketball than him (if that's...

While trying to decide on a science fair project, third-grader Wilson struggles with with fractions and, much to his embarrassment, his parents sign him up to work with a math tutor.

"Twelve-year-old Autumn wants more than anything to be a real author, but when she wins a contest by writing something too personal about her brother, she has to decide if her dreams are more important than their relationship"-- Provided by publisher.

Nixie and Grace have been best and only friends since preschool, but now Nixie must attend an after-school cooking camp while Grace spends her afternoons with classmate Elyse.

Afraid he will always be an outsider like ex-planet Pluto, nine-year-old Oliver finally shows his extremely overprotective parents that he is capable of doing great things without their help while his class is studying the solar system.

"The third book in the Franklin School Friends series is a fast and funny story about sports, friendship, and sibling rivalries."-- Provided by publisher.

Nine-year-old Mason's parents keep trying to get him a pet, but until he and his best friend Brody adopt a three-legged dog, he is not interested.