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Best friends and budding inventors Ben and Jack, dismayed that Jack's family is planning to move to another city, try to come up with an invention that will scare potential buyers away from Jack's house, but come to understand that while change can be difficult, it is not always all bad.

"Seven-year-old Christina desperately wants a dog, but her parents are reluctant to give in. They take her to a kennel that houses former racing dogs in need of new homes. When a large greyhound named Prince befriends Christina, her parents agree that it was meant to be. But Prince has never been a pet, so Christina has some work to do to make Prince a part of the family!"--P. of cover.

Morgan learns to care for a baby beaver that is washed into her backyard by floodwaters.

Justine finds a stray cat and her kittens living off food in the school dumpster. She comes up with a plan that will both reduce the amount of wasted food from the cafeteria and help animals in need, if only she can convince grumpy Mr. Raymond, the cafeteria manager.

Meet Justine McKeen, the Queen of Green. She's trying to save the planet, one person at a time, and when she decides to get something done, it's a lot of fun. When a small bird is injured after flying into a school window, the students are shocked and upset. But they are even more shocked when school bully Jimmy Blatzo rescues the bird and nurses it back to health. Blatzo may have saved one bird, but the problem is much bigger and not confined to the school grounds. Birds are flying into the windows at the town hall too. With the help of Justine, green activist extraordinaire, Blatzo gets the courage he needs to approach town council. Getting over his fear of public speaking will be one challenge. Getting used to his new nickname, Bird Nerd, will be another matter entirely.

Nine-year-old Skye has always had a fascination with flying. When Skye's parents take her to Costa Rica, she is thrilled about all of the beautiful exotic birds she'll get to see. What she doesn't realize is that her parents have three big surprises planned, and each will offer her a different opportunity to feel what it's like to fly.

Johnny Maverick has come up with an idea to win a fundraising contest for the Howling Timberwolves hockey team. It seems fun, until a girl visits Howling and starts to win challenges against Johnny. The entire town finds it funny; even worse, his friends Tom and Stu like what’s happening.

Justine leads a group of kids in cleaning up a park located across from the school board's offices as part of a plan to get her school librarian back on the job.

"Concerned about what plastic is doing to the environment and to her classmates, Justine McKeen sets out to ban bottled water school-wide. But she'll have to convince the new school principal and persuade her fellow students if Project Bottle Throttle is going to succeed."--Page 4 of cover.

"Justine McKeen is back, and she's on a deadline. With only days left before Earth Day, Justine enlists the help of her classmates to count flower buds, frogs, spiders and ants in their natural habitat as part of an environmental science project. But there's a species right in her own classroom that she'll have to tackle first--a class bully. Savannah Blue, aka the Queen of Mean, criticizes Justine's secondhand clothes and calls being green a waste of time. Their teacher, Mrs. Howie, gives the girls a new assignment for Earth Day--they must present together to the class on why it's important to care for the environment. In the sixth book in this ... series, Justine is up against her biggest challenge yet"--Amazon.com.