Stanley is excited about Crazy Hair Day at his school, until he discovers that he has gotten the date wrong. Includes an interview with the author.

Violet, who is very shy and hates for anyone to look at her in school, finally comes out of her shell when she is cast as Lady Space in a play about the solar system and saves the production from disaster.

The notorious Miss Swamp reappears at the Horace B. Smedley School, this time to shape up the football team and help them win at least one game.

On the first day of school, a young boy expects only the worst when he discovers that his new teacher is the "monstrous" Mrs. Green.

When a stranger joins the Peach Street Mudders, Alfie Maples wonders how to help him improve his game.

The students in Mrs. Madoff's class keep track of the days they have been in school, marking each interval of ten, until they reach 100 days.

African American sixth-grader Kenny Wright wishes he was a famous superhero, but he's actually a regular kid who lives with his grandmother and struggles to fit in at his Washington, D.C. inner-city school. This year Kenny has to deal with a dilapidated school, a bully, and the potential loss of his favorite principal.

Crisantemo learns to deal with jealous classmates who make fun of her name.

"Vashti doesn't think she can draw, but her teacher encourages her to "just make a mark and see where it takes you." Vashti at first ventures one small and unremarkable dot, but is soon making big dots and small dots, red dots, blue dots, and purple dots. At the school art show, her entire collection of dots turns heads and wins praise"--Container insert.

After master con artist Will Shea encounters another skilled scammer, Andrea Dufresne, at his new prep school, they agree to have a scam-off to determine who leaves and who stays.