Ada Twist is a very curious girl who shows perseverance by asking questions and performing experiments to find things out and understand the world.

An old friend visits Zoey with a glowing seed pod. Zoey, Sassafras and Pip must work together to discover what this mysterious and rare magical plant needs to grow before all the seeds crumble to purple dust! --Page 4 of cover.

Who are Big Monty and his friends at Washington Carver Elementary chasing down this time? Now they must stop a malicious music teacher who will do anything to win the district-wide choral competition. Find out if Merlin can pull himself together in front of his new crush in time to teach this misguided teacher what it means to really be a champion.

The reader is asked to help a bear scientist and a frog scientist test how books work in a variety of experiments, from shaking and turning the book upside down to whispering secrets and more. Includes information on the scientific method.

Franny K. Stein is a mad scientist who prefers all things spooky and creepy, but when she has trouble making friends at her new school she experiments with fitting in--which works until a monster erupts from the trashcan.

With help from her family and teacher, Holly overcomes her dislike of having sticky hands to participate in a science experiment. Includes author's note about living with autism and sensory issues and a recipe for making slime.

Frannie tries to prevent chaos when her new lab assistant, Igor, a dog of many breeds, accidentally releases a fifty-foot, arrow-shooting cupid.

Iris Oxtabee, who has Nonverbal Learning Disability, decides to prove love is simply chemistry by getting popular, newly-single Theo Grant to ask her to prom--complicating her friendship with Seth.

Third-grader Dexter Drabner dreams of being a skateboarding-hero-spy, while contending with his nemesis at school, Millicent the bully--and when science teacher Mr. McFur's prized lab rat, Pretty, eats a piece of radioactive gamma broccoli and grows to the size of an elephant, he gets his chance to save the school from destruction.

With help from his Uncle Harold, who wrote books about Bunnicula, Howie the wire-haired dachshund writes a story in which he saves the world from from a science experiment gone awry.