When almost-sixth-grader Alex, a video game fanatic, is forced on a "playdate" with his neighbor Herbert, an inventor, the two travel to the twenty-second century and face off against aliens, who are not as benevolent as most people think.

Recruited by the Air Force after hacking into a classified military training program, Neil Andertol and his video game buddies pilot what they believe to be an Air Force simulator to find a missing jet and rescue two endangered pilots.

When eighth-grader Cameron Boxer creates the Positive Action Group at school he intends it as a diversion to fool his parents, teachers, and sister into letting him continue to concentrate on his video-gaming--but before he knows it other kids are taking it seriously, and soon he finds himself president of the P.A.G., and involved in community service, so the boy who never cared about anything is now the center of everything, whether he likes it or...

When Ted inherits his uncle's apartment "and all the treasure within, " he realizes the apartment is set up like a real-life video game and must solve the puzzles with his friends to discover the treasure.

After the recent mob attacks, the entire village decides to prepare for the next offensive, and Runt increases his efforts to be one of the five best students in school and become the warrior of his dreams.

Dennis, the son of Chinese immigrants, yearns to play video games like his friends and, upon his strict father's death, becomes obsessed with them but later, realizing how his father sacrificed for him, he chooses a nobler path.

"When skeletons corner Noah and Violet, the duo escapes through a portal to the Nether. Trouble brews as Noah accidentally leaves the portal open and the mobs from the Overworld enter the Nether. Noah and Violet must battle hostile mobs from both worlds to survive"--

Challenged to select his field of study at Minecraftia school, Runt, twelve-year-old villager with ambitions to become a warrior, discovers that only the year's top five students will be able to receive warrior training.

In the latest diary of middle-schooler Greg Heffley, he records his attempts to spend his summer vacation sensibly indoors playing video games and watching television, despite his mother's other ideas.

"Tech gadgets are disappearing left and right at school, and Lunch Lady must get to the bottom of it!"--