Akron Public Library

It's October in space, and Bob is getting excited for his favorite holiday: Halloween. When Bob tells Beep that soon they'll get to dress up like monsters and get as much free candy as they can carry, Beep thinks he has gone to heaven. But Lani informs them that Halloween isn't celebrated at Astro Elementary. Bob cannot imagine life without Halloween! He appeals to Principal Quark, but with no success. Determined to save Halloween, Bob and Lani organize...

Nellie Davis is very worried about the first day of fourth grade after she finds out that she is not in the same class as her three best friends, Adam, Jake, and Estella, all members of their club, The Worry Warriors--but when she accidentally volunteers to take care of the class rat (she is terrified of rats) things get even more worrisome.

Field Day is going to be a nightmare for Cassidy because she can't run or kick or bat as well as her friends. But there is one thing she is really good at-finding out --ghostly secrets.

Jules is starting third grade, but her new teacher seems a little strange, she has to choose and research a famous person for the class wax museum project, and rehearsals for the sitcom she is in are harder than ever--especially since the TV show is about to air.

"Advanced picture book told through first-person narrative and graphic novel style panels. What Happens Next is a raw, realistic story told by an unnamed protagonist who feels different from everybody else, like she doesn't quite fit in. Bullied by a girl at school, our narrator gives a terse script of the related facts and emotions. At school the next day, the narrator confronts the bully by spinning her "weirdo" obsession with science into an opportunity...

Sara finds the mystical pencil on the sidewalk where Alex dropped it and brings it to school on costume design day--and before Alex can explain the danger the school is full of flying pigs and barnyard animals.

When the Moon is full Frankenstein Elementary is disrupted by Harriet the werewolf and her gang of were-bullies, and tonight they have a new target, a mummy (who is actually a human boy wrapped in toilet paper)--so Brian the zombie and his monster friends come up with a plan to protect the human boy and defeat the bullies.

When Rider Woofson and the P.I. Pack arrive at the top of Mystery Mountain, they find their classmates have left, scared away by a snow monster, so the detectives decide it is time to investigate exactly what is so mysterious about this mountain.