The noisy fifth grade boys of Laketon Elementary School challenge the equally loud fifth grade girls to a "no talking" contest.

The Grayson twins are moving to a new town. Again.Although it's a drag to be constantly mistaken for each other, in truth, during those first days at a new school, there's nothing better than having a twin brother there with you. But on day one of sixth grade, Ray stays home sick, and Jay is on his own. No big deal. It's a pretty nice school, good kids, too. But Jay quickly discovers a major mistake: No one seems to know a thing about his brother....

The fifth grade's annual camping trip in the woods tests Mark's survival skills and his ability to relate to a teacher who seems out to get him.

Sixth-grader Ben Pratt's life is full of changes that he does not like--his parents' separation and the plan to demolish his seaside school to build an amusement park--but when the school janitor gives him a tarnished coin with some old engravings and then dies, Ben is drawn into an effort to keep the school from being destroyed.

Fifth-grader Nora is really a genius. It's true, but don't tell anyone. She gets average grades so she can forgo the pressure-cooker gifted program. But she gets one hundred percent fed up over testing and the fuss everyone makes about grades, she bring home a terrible report card just to prove a point.

Gewns grandfather has disappeared from their home in New York City, but he's left her a phone message telling her not to wrry and to let no one know he's gone. But her new freedom actually seems to have some benefits. But people keep asking about her grandpa and she doesnt knwo what to say, which brings the NYPD carshing into her scene. Seventeen-year-old Gwen, who has been living with her grandfather in Manhattan while she attends music school,...

When Jake was 3 years old at Miss Lulu's Day Care Center, what did he know about bullies? Nothing. But he learned fast. Now Jake's in 4th grade and he can look back and see that the year that made the differencewas second grade.

A fifth-grader starts a newspaper with an editorial that prompts her burnt-out classroom teacher to really begin teaching again, but he is later threatened with disciplinary action as a result.

Ted Hammond, the only sixth grader in his small Nebraska town's one-room schoolhouse, searches for clues to the disappearance of a homeless family. Ted Hammond learns that in a very small town, there's no such thing as an isolated event, and the solution of one mystery is often the beginning of another.