Dan Gutman

When Ella Mentry School is threatened with closure due to budget cuts, A.J.'s new speech teacher, Miss Laney, comes up with a brilliant, if weird, plan to save the day.

"On the first day of school, Rappy the Raptor uses his raps and rhymes to deal with a bully and make a new friend"--

Stosh travels back to 1969 to try to prevent the untimely death of Roberto Clemente, a legendary baseball player and humanitarian, but upon his return to the present, he meets his own great-grandson who takes him into the future, and what he finds there is more shocking than anything he has encountered in his travels to the past.

A.J. and his friends in the second grade learn that art can be made out of anything, even garbage.

A.J. and his friends learn how to survive in the wilderness. At-ten-tion! The Beaver Scouts are looking for new recruits. And A.J. and his friends are the first to sign up.

A superstitious schoolmaster, in love with a wealthy farmer's daughter, has a terrifying encounter with a headless horseman.