Noodle always chooses to do the things he wants to do while never getting around to doing the things he NEEDS to do! Luckily, he learns simple strategies to help him complete his chores and still have time for fun. This is the fifth title in the Responsible Me! sries by Julia Cook.--Publisher.

In his apple orchard, a farmer meets a little man named Take and follows his advice, which does not turn out well, and the next day meets a little man named Give, whose advice is just as bad.

The rules keep getting in the way of Noodle's fun. There are so many rules -- too many rules! And Noodle struggles because he doesn't think many of them actually apply to HIM. Will Noodle's mother and teacher convince him that rules are meant to help, not harm, him?--Publisher.

Colleen is devastated when her best friend changes schools--but when she learns that Meredith is teaching her new cheerleading squad the routine they created together for an upcoming competition their friendship is tested.

"Recently orphaned Jane accepts an unexpected invitation from an old acquaintance to an island mansion where she will face five choices that could ultimately determine the course of her newly untethered life" --

Mia and her friends are excited to learn a new dance, but on class day Mia finds herself without a partner.

"In this powerful collection of short stories, children around the world turn eleven and take a step into their futures. Each one is changed in ways both big and small. Annoyed at having to walk his sister's dog on his birthday, Connor heads into an undeveloped subdivision, where he comes across chilling evidence of a stranger's unhappiness. A girl sneaks away from her class camping trip to a local conservation area and experiences, for the first...

At sixteen Bridget is pregnant--and her boyfriend has dumped her for another girl. She's trying to envision a future for her baby. But as she sifts through the many paths and the many people who want to parent her child, she can't help but feel that there is no right decision. Fifteen years later: Ivy knows that she is now the same age Bridget was when she placed Ivy for adoption. She knows that Bridget was the one who named her. When Ivy goes in...

In a single night--graduation night--Thomas has to decide: Do what everyone has always expected of him? Or forge an entirely new path? Thomas is supposed to leave for the army in the morning. His father was Army. His brother, Jake, is Army--is a hero, even, with the medals to prove it. Everyone expects Thomas to follow in that fine tradition. But Jake came back from overseas a completely different person, and that has shaken Thomas's certainty about...

What happens after happily ever after? It's senior year, and Paige Hancock is finally living her best life. She has a fun summer job, great friends, and a super charming boyfriend who totally gets her. But senior year also means big decisions. Weighing "the rest of her life," Paige feels her anxiety begin to pervade every decision she makes. Everything is exactly how she always wanted it to be--how can she leave it all behind next year? In her head,...