Steve has experienced worry and nightmares for most of his young life, but during a challenging summer he has a dream that gives him hope. A glowing figure offers him comfort and a solution to cure his ailing new born brother. All he has to do is say yes, but this could be a dangerous word to speak. And he might not be able to take it back.

Polly Diamond, an imaginative girl, receives a magic book in the mail and anything she writes in it comes true! She soon learns to be careful with her words after she turns her sister into a banana and her cozy house turns into an unrecognizable mess!

Eighth grader Nate Foster dreams of performing in a Broadway musical. With his friend Libby, Nate concocts a plan to run away from his small Pennsylvania town to New York, where he'll audition for the role of Elliot in the musical version of E.T. Will Nate hit it big, or be stuck with those small town blues?

When two brothers decide to prove how brave they are, everything backfires—literally. Genie’s summer is full of surprises. The first is that he and his big brother, Ernie, are leaving Brooklyn for the very first time to spend the summer with their grandparents all the way in Virginia—in the COUNTRY! The second surprise comes when Genie figures out that their grandfather is blind.

A young Lemony Snicket begins his apprenticeship in an organization nobody knows about. He starts by asking questions that shouldn't be on his mind. Now he has written an account that should not be published, in four volumes that shouldn't be read. This is the beginning of the first volume.

Written entirely in verse, Woodson shares her life experiences of growing up as an African American in 1960s and 1970s South Carolina and New York. Through these vivid poems, we get a glimpse into what the author experienced as a young girl trying to find her place in the world. This reading is the first five poems of Part 1 of her story.

Twelve-year-old Kyle gets to stay overnight in the new town library, designed by his hero, the famous gamemaker Luigi Lemoncello. But Kyle finds that come morning he must work with his friends to solve puzzles in order to escape the library.

An oak tree named Red shares the story of a small community with a big problem. Told from Red’s point of view, readers may just find themselves wishing along with two human children, who discover that a little wish can go a long way.

In today’s story, Ish's dreams for a future on Mars go heartbreakingly awry when an unexpected diagnosis threatens to rewrite her whole future.

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