In rhyming text based on "The night before Christmas, " Billy is too nervous to sleep the night before he begins preschool, but a kind teacher and new friends fill the day with fun.

When Mrs. Green announces that Friday is class picture day, Hubie spends the rest of the week worrying about how he will look and practicing poses.

The weirdness never stops! The security guard at Ella Mentry School has gone off the deep end! Somebody is stealing peanut butter and jelly sandwiches from the vomitorium, and Officer Spence is on the case. He's arresting everybody in sight! Somebody is going to go to jail! Who is it? You'll have to read the book to find out.

At Miss Thornapple's school, young witches are eager to learn new potions, tell scary stories, and eat gooey eyeballs.

The latest monsters threatening Stermont Elementary are shadowy shapeshifters that attach themselves to people, eat their shadows, and block out all light--but before he can think of a way to deal with them, Alexander has to deal with a startling revelation from his friend Nikki.

Judy is excited about becoming a doctor, especially when Class 3T starts a new unit on the human body, but she learns more about being a patient when she catches tonsillitis from her little brother, Stink.

After an embarrassing incident, a young boy decides to quit school.

A.J. and his classmates are convinced that new school librarian, Mrs. Roopy, has multiple personality disorder because she keeps pretending to be famous people

Notorious Miss Swamp reappears at the Horace B. Smedley School, this time to shape up the football team and make them win at least one game.