When eighth-grade school bully Tod and his friends get caught committing a crime on school property, his penalty--staying after school and writing in a journal under the eye of the school guidance counselor--reveals aspects of himself that he prefers to keep hidden.

Provides trivia questions and answers on a wide variety of topics, including emotions, sea life, disasters, and the globe.

"...explains the concept of choosing, individually, and as a group, from making a simple choice: "Which do you like better, apples or oranges?", to selecting a class pet, to even more complicated decisions, like electing community representatives." -- amazon.com

Profiles current robotics technologies while outlining near-future innovations, explaining the components that make up a robot, six primary robot types, and the ways in which robots are helping our world.

Uses a question and answer format to share facts about the habits, preferences, and abilities of typical kids to enable readers to determine if their own characteristics are mainstream or distinctive, in a volume that introduces the idea that "normal" is a relative concept.

Gumball provides advice for his brother, Darwin, on how to create mayhem through all sorts of pranks and stunts.

When daydreaming Oscar forgets to tell everyone what to bring to the neighborhood picnic, he must work quickly to get everything they need for the picnic. With lightening-fast moves and fancy foot-work, he manages to shop for groceries, make the food, and put the games together.

Each of these optical illusions is a masterpiece of colorful design, with visual tricks to confound the mind and please the eye. Just don't trust anything you see at first glance, because it's impossible to judge spatial relations, or even the subject of a picture, accurately. In some cases, the colors themselves deceive the eye, making objects seem larger, smaller, faster, or even better looking than they really are. Hold onto your hat--two fancy...