Everybody loves 300 pound Fartboy. When he walks down the hallway at school all the kids hold their noses teachers too. If he lets a twenty second Duck Quacker they stop to applaud. But what happens when Fartboy leaves his home - and refrigerator - in Tampa and travels to the wilds of Canada to go to Camp OO? It s a million laughs and then some."

Growing up as the only daughter of the world's wealthiest woman has its challenges but nothing like this. The year is 2035 and the world is in ruins. Labrash Gates, the seventeen-year-old granddaughter of Bill Gates, lives in London - an island of civilization - where she owns Labrash, the hottest nightclub in town. All is fine until one day a strange man chases Labrash down a dead-end alley...

Coming from the southern United States Emily the Irritating isn't used to snow especially three feet of it but now that she's moved to Canada she's decided she quite likes it, snow. For one thing you can jump off the roof and not break a leg. This is important when you're sneaking out of the house at midnight so you can meet your best friend Megan at the abandoned stone house down the road -- the house full of dreams and the ghost of an old woman.

Emily's first day at Brownsville District Secondary School is a disaster and worst of all her best friend Megan isn't there to make everything funny. But at least Emily now knows the principal, Mrs. Barrow, and Doug, one of the auto shop boys, has asked her out which is scary but okay. And sure the whole school saw her fire engine red underwear but they'll forget that eventually. Right? So after school Emily does what she likes to do best - next to reading of course - which is go for a walk in the park across the road from her house. As usual she heads for the beaver pond with a bag of #2...