Someone is tripping students at Benjamin Dizzy Elementary School and taking their candy and homework, but the resulting nervousness does not quell people's excitement over the upcoming Dizzy Day Parade, when the rule is "anything goes."

Upon moving to Hoboken, New Jersey, a boy convinces his two new friends to help him track down the mysterious phantom who stole his bicycle, as well as Arthur Bobowicz, owner of a giant chicken that once terrorized local citizens.

"Teen Portland Search and Rescue team member Nick Walker becomes a prime suspect in a murder."--

Neither a long list of rules, nor the inability to find the perfect gift--Cheddar Jam--nor being locked in a bathroom with a juggling bear will keep quirky fourth-grader Oggie Cooder from attending neighbor Donnica Perfecto's birthday pool party.

Now that Polly and the Kreeps are officially family, their parents have left the kids with a nanny with a mean streak. The Kreeps may be creepy, but this nanny has got to go!

"Many grandmas are dreamers, write poems, even wear green feathered hats - but few dare to participate in poetry contests and plant a love of literature in their grandchildren, and consequently fulfill themselves through them, helping them grow and weaving a strand of continuity through both their lives by way of writing. Petunia is Vicente's grandmother, and she is not actually that crazy; on the contrary, her eccentricities are explained by her...

When Sophie finds a secret message in the antique fountain pen she bought for her father, she and her friends become involved in a treasure hunt devised by the pen's previous owner, whose house is full of puzzles that protect a hidden treasure.

Oggie Cooder : Quirky fourth-grader Oggie Cooder goes from being shunned to everyone's best friend when his uncanny ability to chew slices of cheese into the shapes of states wins him a slot on a popular television talent show, but he soon learns the perils of being a celebrity--and having a neighbor girl as his manager. Oggie Cooder, party animal : Neither a long list of rules, nor the inability to find the perfect gift--Cheddar Jam--nor being locked...

"While dreaming of being a spy like those in his favorite magazine, twelve-year-old Edward has been stuck holding his eccentric family together but when his parents are kidnapped, he leads his sisters and cousin in an effort to rescue them across the danger-filled landscape of nineteenth-century Mars." --