Bent Northrop Memorial Library

Miss Daisy's unusual teaching methods surprise her second grade students, especially reluctant learner A.J.

Mrs. Cooney, the school nurse, is so beautiful that A.J. has a crush on her--even though he suspects she might be an international spy.

Four fifth-grade students--a geek, a class clown, a teacher's pet, and a slacker--as well as their teacher and mothers, each relate events surrounding a computer programmed to complete homework assignments.

A skateboarding principal offers unusual incentives to his students to motivate them to learn more.

A.J. and his classmates are convinced that new school librarian, Mrs. Roopy, has multiple personality disorder because she keeps pretending to be famous people.

As the new computer lab teacher tries to bring Ella Mentry School into the twenty-first century with her peculiar inventions, second-grader A.J. struggles to survive without sugary snacks when Principal Klutz bans junk food.

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

Things get a little crazy at Ella Mentry School during a visit from Miss Suki Kabuki, a famous children's book author who lives in a rain forest and writes about endangered animals, when her pet falcon, Rappy, gets loose in the classroom.

When the new vice principal is put in charge of Ella Mentry School for a few days, she tries out some very unusual ideas about how students learn.