\With Big Nate, you never know what you're going to get. A sudden snowball to the face? A brand-new campaign of mischief for prank week? A new crush? What is guaranteed is plenty of laughter, and lots of reading fun. And, of course, plenty of hours in detention.

Gregory is torn between his modern day family and his life in 17th century France where he's learning magic and has strange feelings for his cousin and fellow mage, Edna. He is starting to master his spell-casting and discovering the origins of the gargoyles.

Publisher Annotation: Seventh grader Jordan Banks loves nothing more than drawing cartoons about his life. But instead of sending him to the art school of his dreams, his parents enroll him in a prestigious private school known for its academics, where Jordan is one of the few kids of color in his entire grade. As he makes the daily trip from his Washington Heights apartment to the upscale Riverdale Academy Day School, Jordan soon finds himself torn...