ONE-SENTENCE SUMMARY: Principal Fry and Coach Downey live to smack down the students of Wahoo Middle School, but it's a major mistake to mess with Max, Baz, and Ali, the Righters of Wrongs. AUDIENCE: teens, video-game fanatics, anyone needing a laugh. SAME FLAVOR AS: Louis Sachar's Holes TEASER: Robin Hood was cool in his day. Move aside, dude, the RoW can handle it. SUMMARY: Max, Baz, and Ali are the Righters of Wrongs at Wahoo Middle School. These modern-day Robin Hoods return confiscated yo-yos and iGamers to their rightful owners. After every raid by the Righters of Wrongs, Mr. Fry...

TEASER: Franky Stein recently turned twelve. His parents have assured him that he can talk to them about anything. Well, anything except the zipper-shaped scar on the back of his dad's neck, Grandpa's exact age, and what's hidden in the garage freezer. Think you've got problems? They're nothing in comparison to Franky Stein's. - His father is Frankenstein. - Most of the family swears that frozen pus is delicious. - Gramps works at a morgue where a LOT of body parts are missing. SUMMARY: Love is in the air in Nebraska. Franky's French teacher (Mr. Lefevre) wants to say "I do" to Mary Shelley...

For the past 2,500 years, everyone between the ages of eight and eighty recognizes the name Achilles. (And who hasn't heard of the Trojan horse?) In Homer's ILIAD, Achilles is not a complex character. He's godlike in his power and his physical perfection (Brad Pitt played him in the movie version), and in every battle there's no question that buckets of blood will be shed by his opponents. In this novel, Achilles is a man whom we envy but also pity. He bears the scars from every cut he's endured in battle: he's revoltingly ugly. Even though he heals from most wounds within a day, he feels...