It's New Year's Eve and Mallory can't wait to celebrate! Her camp friends are coming to Fern Falls and she and Mary Ann have planned out every last detail for a perfect winter reunion and New Year's Eve party. But what Mallory hadn't planned on is getting sick. Poor Mallory has to ring in the New Year in the hospital instead of at home with her friends and family. Mallory thinks she's missing out on all the fun. Is this the beginning of the worst year ever, or is Mallory in for a big New Year's surprise?
After the students leave for the day, the teachers at this school are naughty and noisy and break all the rules: dancing in the gym, roller-skating in the halls, stealing leftovers from the cafeteria, and writing on walls. An enormous food fight results in a chaotic, messy time; when the teachers break into the chem lab, they create their own slime! The rhyming text is mostly fine, but occasionally a bit forced. They change into jeans and get ready to play. They shout to their friends, 'The day's over! Hooray!' Gott's computer-generated cartoon illustrations are energetic and colorful with lots of whooshy movement and splashy action, supporting the atmosphere of mayhem and fun.
Follow the adventures of Phileas Fogg and his French valet Passepartout as they attempt to travel around the world in 80 days on a 20,000 British pound wager set by his friends at the Reform Club of London, England.
A rebellion of some nobles against King Henry IV of England in the year 1400 brought ruin and disgrace to the friends who sheltered them from the king's vengeance.
All Quiet on the Western Front begins somewhere near the German/French front during World War One. It is told by a 19 year old soldier Paul Baumer. Through his own experiences in trench warfare and the incredible loss of life of his friends, classmates and teachers, Paul is overwhelmed by the complete hopelessness of war.
