The Sand Castle Mystery is another Children's Book-of-the-Month Club Featured Selection from acclaimed author Carolyn Keene. Eight year old Nancy Drew and her friends enter a sand castle building contest. Someone doesn't want them to win and won't play fair. When their castle is destroyed and a mean message is found in the sand, Nancy becomes a detective once again.

After thirty years, Wilson Lewis is forced to acknowledge that the love has gone out of his marriage and it is because he has spent most of his life at the office, leaving his wife, Jane to raise their children. When she expresses an intention to leave him, Wilson is sure of just one thing: His love for his wife has only grown over the years and he will do everything he can to save their marriage.

Fourth-grade science whiz Phineas MacGuire is forced to team up with the new boy in class on a science fair project, but the boy's quirky personality causes Phineas to wonder if they have any chance of winning.

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Alexander and his new friend, Rip, are worried that the worms the rain has brought out are really the megaworms that Notebook of Doom describes but they soon discover that the night crawlers are trying to warn them about the monster tunnel fish that are threatening Stermont Elementary.

Alexander has just moved into Stermont, but the elementary school is being torn down, his new classroom is located in the hospital morgue, a notebook he finds is full of information about monsters--and everywhere he turns there are spooky balloon men determined to attack him.

"Alexander's plate is full with a school lunch menu of ice cream and pie every day, his whole class is crying, his friend goes missing, and to top it all off, he has to battle giant meat-eating vegetables before the town becomes dinner" --

Alexander's class is going on a sleepover at the Stermont Museum, but something is stealing bright, shiny objects from all over town, including the museum's treasured Ruby Scorpion, and on the night of the visit, the young monster hunters finally confront the town's newest monster--a warrior covered entirely by bubble-wrap.

"It is the first day of the brand-new Stermont Elementary School, but everything electrical seems to be going haywire, and it looks like strange green lightning bugs are draining off the power--but when they see green lightning in a clear blue sky Alexander and his friends know there must be a monster involved." -- Provided by publisher.

"A middle-grade spinoff of The Princess Diaries, about the long-lost sister of Mia Thermopolis, Princess of Genovia" --