On Science Fair Day, Ima Kindanozee proves that she is the most inquisitive student in Mrs. Shepherd's class.

Cash, Fitch, and Bird Thomas are three siblings in seventh grade together in Park, Delaware. In 1986, as the country waits expectantly for the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger, they each struggle with their own personal anxieties. Cash, who loves basketball but has a newly broken wrist, is in danger of failing seventh grade for the second time. Fitch spends every afternoon playing Major Havoc at the arcade on Main. And Bird, his twelve-year-old...

Miss Winkle separates the class into teams and instructs them to build towers out of paper cups, and the group who builds the tallest tower wins--but they have very little success until Pedro has an idea about how it can be done.

Babymouse discovers Squish, a new species of amoeba, while working on a school science fair project.

Third-grader Zeke Meeks needs to win the prize in the science project contest because the class bully is threatening him, but so far all his ideas are ending in messy disasters--can his friend Hector save the day?

Twelve-year-old twins Hayden and Jaden, and their older friends Keisha and Carlos, call themselves Snoops, Inc., and consider it their business to catch criminals and investigate crimes--so when someone sabotages several of the projects in the sixth-grade science fair competition they set out to expose the culprit.

Eighth-grader Kara McAllister chronicles her efforts when she tries to use the scientific method to transform her social blunders into romantic victories.

When Heidi is paired with Stanley, her worst enemy's best friend, for the Brewster Science Fair and she suddenly starts getting notes from a secret admirer, she tries to use magic to discover the note-writer's identity.

After a stellar appearance at the talent show, the Major Eights are getting ready to perform at their school's annual arts fund-raiser! Maggie can't wait for their next big gig, but when her science grade starts slipping, her mom refuses to let her play with the band unless she can get an A on her science fair project. Can Maggie and her friends find a way to make sure she aces the project?

When Jake Everdale is in danger of being pulled off the basketball team for flunking science class, his wish for help comes true when his Heroes of History action figures of Sir Isaac Newton and Amelia Earhart come to life to lend a hand.