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Zeke's third grade class is putting on a play and Zeke is unhappy and annoyed with what he sees as too small a role--until his mother teaches him the meaning of the saying "there are no small parts, only small actors."

Krystal Ball of Queens, New York, is looking forward to her tenth birthday party, but she is worried that nobody will come because her psychic dreams make her seem weird--then a flood in her friend Billy's apartment damages her apartment and it looks like the party will never happen.

"Classroom pets Fergus and Zeke can't wait for Field Day! But all the events are the wrong size -- what can these two little mice do? Fergus and Zeke love being the class pets in Miss Maxwell's classroom. From science experiments to art projects, they do everything the students do. But on Field Day, none of the events are the right size for the small mice -- the limbo is too easy, the high jump is too hard, and kickball is absolutely terrifying! So...

"Omar is going on his biggest adventure yet--a trip to Pakistan! But his excitement about the trip is interrupted by some shocking news: his amazing teacher is not coming back to school, and no one will say why. When Omar and his friends start investigating, the hints they overhear and clues they find lead them to an alarming conclusion--it must be aliens! Omar has a huge imagination, but saving his teacher from aliens seems far-fetched even to him....

Plays ball (topic: forces): Ms. Frizzle combines physics and baseball into a "frictionless baseball game". Shows & tells (topic: archaeology): When Arnold brings in a webbed hoop for the International Show and Tell competition, the class helps him figure out what it is before he takes the stage. Works out (topic: circulation): Fearful that Ms. Frizzle doesn't stand a chance at the Teacher-athon, the class travels inside her body for a closer look. Rocks...

Based on the children's book series Ordinary People Change the World by New York Times bestselling author Brad Meltzer and illustrator Christopher Eliopoulos, the series will introduce kids to inspiring historical figures and the character virtues that helped them succeed. It's time for Yadina to start first grade, but she's really nervous. Alexander Hamilton helps her realize that new adventures can be exciting. -- A leveled Reader based on an episode...

Super Turbo learns he is not the only superhero pet at Sunnyview Elementary.

Disturbed by her student's rude behavior Shelby's fourth grade teacher decides give out a "Good Person Award," and Shelby and her nemesis Brooke are instantly in a competition with each other; the trouble is that most of their ideas about being a good person do not actually involve helping or being polite to other people--but in the end Shelby finds that what she does best is to make people laugh.

In the poverty of the Appalachian coal country in 1908, eight-year-old Minna's life gets even more difficult after her father dies of black lung, and that winter she cannot go to school because she does not have a coat--until the quilting mothers make her a coat using pieces of cloth from their own lives, each with a special story behind it.