Dan Gutman

When summer vacation is interrupted by a tropical storm, Andrea and A.J. are sent to a camp in order to prepare them for school, but once they rally the other Ella Mentry school students, they have an ending to the summer they will never forget.

"A. J. and the Ella Mentry School gang learn some unusual self-defense moves from a wacky teacher who thinks he's an action hero"--

It's Poetry Month and Ms. Coco, who runs the gifted and talented program, is poetry crazy!

A.J. and the other second graders do everything except play sports when they go to "fizz ed" class with their new teacher, Miss Small.

Mr. Docker, a new science teacher, is a crazy inventor who blows things up, uses potatoes for power, and has A.J. and his friends wondering whether science is for nerds or is the coolest subject ever.

When AJ's class has a talent show, AJ discovers he doesn't have a talent.

Mr. Macky dresses up as Abraham Lincoln to get the students at Ella Mentry School excited about their Presidents' Day oral reports.

Alexia is delighted when Mr. Cooper brings in Bob, a hognose snake, as class pet, but when Bob keels over, is Andrea's toy poodle or Alexia's neglect to blame?

A.J. and the other students at Ella Mentry School brave trick-or-treating at the school secretary's house, even though it is supposedly haunted.

"Tween twins Coke and Pepsi McDonald have finally reached the last leg of their wacky and dangerous cross-country road trip, but they must fend off a host of strange assassins before they reach their home in California"-- Provided by publisher.