Depressed by the comfortable sameness of his life and the predictability of his future, seventeen-year-old Michael tries to make his devoted parents, especially his father, understand his need to find his own direction in life.
There’s an imaginary monster in Sophie’s closet. He’s crying because Sophie has outgrown him. She is not afraid of him anymore and nobody else can see him—until Sophie uses her imagination to find her monster a new job.
"A light-hearted, high-energy look at one eventful day in the life of fourth-grader Samantha, the new girl in town, who has lost her beloved cat, Corky.
The eighth grade's plan to get two reluctant "lovers" together by means of a classroom production of Shakespeare's play has some very unexpected results.