Follows the adventures and misadventures of students and staff as they cope with the effects of a large, gloomy cloud that has settled over Wayside School.

A most unusual new student who loves to be the center of attention entertains her teacher and fellow second graders by telling absolutely true stories about herself, including how she got her name. Two-time Newbery Medalist Lois Lowry introduces a new girl in class who loves being the center of attention and tells the most entertaining "absolutely true" stories. There's never been anyone like Gooney Bird Greene at Watertower Elementary School. What...

The new music teacher must try to teach A.J. and the rest of his class to play well enough during their recital to impress crabby Dr. Carbles.

The Grunt and The Grouch take a ride on the giant Loop the Loop, find their dog an enormous dinosaur bone, and settle an argument in this three-in-one adventure.

Beatrice is afraid she is losing her best friend so she uses her topsy-turvy way of thinking to get things looking up.

Mercy the pig's love of buttered toast leads to the capture of a small thief who would rather be a cowboy.

Improbable, ridiculous remedies accumulate when there is gum stuck in your hair.

The Heffley family road trip starts off full of promise, then quickly takes several wrong turns--with everything from a fender bender to crazed seagulls--but even the worst road trip can turn into an adventure, and this is one the Heffleys will not soon forget.

"A playful otter follows two children home and eats popcorn for lunch, swings on the curtains, and eventually encounters the ranger who reminds everyone this otter belongs in the water"--

A.J. and his friends find out what amazing things Miss Lazar, the Super Custodian at their school, can do. Miss Lazar likes to dance around the school with a mop! She has a secret room down in the basement where she keeps the bad kids. She says cleaning throw-up is fun! Miss Lazar is the weirdest custodian in the history of the world!