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5) Stolen bases
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Someone is stealing the equipment from Eva and Becca's softball team, and they decide to catch the crook.
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Trickster Anansi the spider finds a magical rock that causes any person who comments upon it to faint. One by one, he lures his friends over to the rock and, once they have all passed out, steals their food. But when Anansi tries to trick Little Bush Deer, he may have met his match. Watercolor illustrations accompany this retelling of an African folktale, which can also be traced to the Caribbean.
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"When we last left our hero, Max Crumbly, he had crash-landed on top of a Mighty Meat Monster pizza after taking a late night tumble through the vents at South Ridge Middle School--and he was completely surrounded by three ruthless criminals! Will Max be shredded to bits like mozzarella cheese on the hard and crunchy pizza crust of doom? Can his friend and sidekick, computer whiz Erin, help get him out of this sticky situation alive?"--Page 4 of cover....
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"Samantha Archer, also known as Sam, couldn't be more excited about her class trip to Scrub Brush, the cool frontier town. But from the second they arrive at the historic village, it's clear someone's trying to make the whole town disappear. Can Sam and her friends save Scrub Brush?"--Unedited summary from book.
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"Edward G. Garrison, better known as Egg, is pretty excited about the Science Club's field trip to the zoo. They'll get to see a rare display of island foxes, an endangered species. But when the club arrives, they learn that the foxes have been nabbed! Can Egg and his friends find the foxes?"--Unedited summary from book.
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When Echo finds a shiny human object, her sister tries to take it and the girls duke it out over a messy tug of war. Their mother takes the object away and says she will return it when the girls learn to get along. How far is Echo willing to go to get her precious human object back?
13) Zoobreak
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After a class trip to a floating zoo where animals are mistreated and Savannah's missing pet monkey is found in a cage, Long Island sixth-grader Griffin Bing and his band of misfits plan a rescue.
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The famous Prince Nogouda pays a visit to New Mouse City and ace reporter Geronimo Stilton has an exclusive interview. Meanwhile, at the Mouse Museum, the rare breed of Shufongfong lizards have been kidnapped! Could like Prince and his kingdom in the Bandel jungle have anything to do with this? Geronimo, Thea, Trap, and Benjamin are on the case!
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When Catwoman and Harley quarrel about who is the best burglar, they decide to settle it with a bet: who can steal the fabled Marble of Atlantis from the Gotham City Antiquities Gallery; but Catwoman cheats (in fact she already has the pearl), and Harley has to move fast to outwit her rival and win their bet.
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In 2335 the most precious resource on Mars is water, and Water Raiders are attacking farm communities and stealing the water--with very little help coming from the authorities in Tharsis City, Belle Song, her parents, and their friends from the neighboring farms join together to defeat the Raiders and protect their farms.