Central Kansas Library System

When Chester tells his mother about the school bully, she asks him to gather his friends to hear a story about getting along with people who are prickly.

A timid boy, eager to frighten the school bully on Halloween night, acquires a magic ring and the power to change himself into a hideous monster.

"In this novel in verse, a resilient American boy deals with bullying and the challenges of being an outsider that come with living in a Japanese fishing village"--

Dust bunnies who enjoy rhyming games and a boisterous cat who likes to chase and grab learn how to play together.

With the help of her coach, a young girl teaches two bullies a lesson and leads her team to victory in the playoffs.

Third-grader Kaline's father has gone somewhere and his mother can't seem to keep everything straight, but the two brothers and one hundred dogs that live in his imaginary tree house--and his strange neighbor Mr. Osiris Putnaminski--help him cope with his father's absence, his mother's forgetfulness, and the bullies that torment him in school.