Kate McMullan

A busy backhoe loader describes all the items it hauls off a lot and all the fun it has getting dirty while doing so.

A train and a car race each other all of the way to Chicago.

"He's a big red engine with a siren, a horn, a tank full of water, and whole lotta hose! He's a good-lookin' fire truck, and he's brave, too. When the alarm sounds, he's gotta drive through smoke and heat straight to a blazing fire!!"--Front jacket flap.

Wiglaf joins the other students of Dragon Slayers' Academy in searching the Dark Forest for the Cave of Doom, which supposedly contains the gold of the dead dragon Seetha.

When the headmaster of the Dragon Slayers' Academy hears that Princess Belcheena will pay the matchmaker who finds her a husband, he decides that Wiglaf is the perfect candidate.

Wiglaf wins a contest that brings Sir Lancelot to the Dragon Slayers' Academy for a day, but when Wiglaf's friend Erica suspects that Lancelot is not who he claims to be, trouble ensues.

Pearl and Wagner, a rabbit and a mouse, work together to build a robot for their science project.

Puts a modern spin on the Greek myth of Hades and Persephone, in which she asks him for a ride to escape her overprotective mother, sneaks into the Underworld, and refuses to leave.

In this modern version of Greek mythology, Hades, King of the Underworld, tells the real story of Pandora opening the box and releasing all the evils of mankind into the world.

Even though summer vacation starts in five days, Pearl and Wagner, a rabbit and a mouse who are best friends, worry about next year's teacher, mean Ms. Bean.