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After a short stay with an FBI agent who gives them a chance to attend school and live a normal life, the six genetically-altered, winged youths head toward Florida and Max's ultimate destiny--to save the world, whether she wants to or not.

"Greg Heffley's on a losing streak. His best friend, Rowley Jefferson, has ditched him, and finding new friends in middle school is proving to be a tough task. To change his fortunes, Greg decides to take a leap of faith and turn his decisions over to chance. Will a roll of the dice turn things around, or is Greg's life destined to be just another hard-luck story?"--

Chrysanthemum loves her name, until she starts going to school and the other children make fun of it.

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.

Outsider David Piper forms an unlikely friendship with Leo Denton who, from the first day at his new school wants only to be invisible, but when David's secret desire to be a girl gets out, things get very messy for both of them.

A.J. has trouble coming up with a talent to put on display in his class's upcoming talent show.

"Two best friends have been chosen to be students at the fabled School for Good and Evil, where odinary boys and girls are trained to be fairy-tale heroes and villains. One will train for Good; one will become Evil's new hope. Each thinks they know where they belong, but when they are swept into the Endless Woods, they're switched into the opposite schools. Together they'll discover who they really are and what they are capable of, because the only...

Lily loves everything about school, especially her teacher, but when he asks her to wait a while before showing her new purse, she does something for which she is very sorry later.

Spotting his grandmother standing in line at the local soup kitchen, Rafe decides to start a dog-walking business that he hopes will become a huge money-making empire to help his struggling family, a plan that is thwarted by two sabotaging twins.

When a teacher asks her students on the first day of school what they wish for in the coming year, the answers range from having a good school picture to receiving a perfect report card.