After his parents die, Jeffrey Lionell Magee's life becomes legendary, as he accomplishes athletic and other feats which awe his contemporaries.

Seventh grader John "Crash" Coogan has always been comfortable with his tough, aggressive behavior, until his relationship with an unusual Quaker boy and his grandfather's stroke make him consider the meaning of friendship and the importance of family.

When the school assigns each eighth-grader the name of a teenager who died in the past year as a lesson in mortality, Worm Tarnauer, who thrives on being invisible, doesn't count on Becca Finch, the seventeen-year-old car crash victim who changes everything.

Even though his classmates from first grade on have considered him strange and a loser, Donald's optimism and exuberance and the support of his loving family do not allow him to feel that way about himself.

As Palmer comes of age, he must either accept the violence of being a wringer at his town's annual Pigeon Day or find the courage to oppose it.

Four new students at Plumstead Middle School--unhappy Sunny, Eddie, who just wants to survive, Salem, the writer, and the inimitable Pickles--must adjust to a new environment and each other with nothing in common but Humphrey the hamster.

This Italian-American Newbery Medalist presents a humorous account of his childhood and youth in Norristown, Pennsylvania.

Ten stories about the love of baseball, the fear of baseball, and everything in between.