When Michelle's fourth grade class is given the opportunity to star in a dog food commercial and the only catch is that Ernest the dog has to like them, Michelle thinks it should be a snap until she meets Ernest.

Gyp, a cheerful but always silent sheep dog, startles everyone with uncharacteristic behavior during the championship sheep dog trials.

Michelle's forced to team up with Rachel Tilly for the class bird watching assignment. When they spot a rare Cassin's finch, a reporter wants to put their pictures in the newspaper. The girls are excited, until Michelle realizes that the bird they saw wasn't a Cassin's finch. She wants to tell the truth--but Rachel has another idea that could either save the day or get them in really hot water.

In Italy, Stephanie and Corey Griffin fall in love with each other, but suddenly Corey wants to break up.

Fired from his job at Phag magazine, Peter Mallory has to find a way to make a living...and get revenge! When his best friend suggests writing a book about the bear community--and using his new ursine look to go undercover at Phag--Peter is soon letting his body hair grow and practising the fine art of flannel couture. When Peter's sabotage campaign works only too well, he starts to run the risk of discovery. With an envious fellow bear set to unmask Peter as a fraud, and a relationship with an intriguing bear on the line, things are about to get very hairy!

Michelle finds a Web site that's giving away free teddy bears. She quickly orders a bunch for her and her classmates, but soon learns that the teddies weren't really free. Now Michelle has to get them all back--or else she'll be stuck with a big bill!

Twenty-one works from “one of the most brilliant, innovative, and eloquent writers on earth,” including the award-nominated novella Mefisto in Onyx (Publishers Weekly). Harlan Ellison celebrates four decades of writing and publishes his seventieth book, this critically acclaimed, wildly imaginative, and outrageously creative collection. The Edgar Award–nominated novella Mefisto in Onyx is the centerpiece, surrounded by screenplays, an introduction by the author, interspersed segments of autobiographical narrative, and such provocatively titled entries as “The Man Who Rowed Columbus Ashore,” “Anywhere But Here, With Anybody But You,” “Crazy As a Soup Sandwich,” “Chatting With Anubis,” “The Dragon on the Bookshelf,” (written in collaboration with Robert Silverberg), “The Dreams a Nightmare Dreams,” “Pulling Hard Time,” and “Midnight in the Sunken Cathedral.”

When Stephanie, Michelle, and DJ get the house all to themselves for a whole weekend, plans for excitement are set in motion. But things get a little too exciting when some uninvited guests show up for Stephanie's party -- guests she knows are sure to cause big trouble! And Michelle finds a diary packed with clues for a secret treasure -- one that's hidden right in the house!

Sam, also known as The Alaskan, was a homicide detective way, way up north. Because it was a small department and there were very few homicides, he decided to retire after twenty years and moved to a bigger department, bigger city, with more homicides. He got the reputation of solving the "hard ones." Sam, with his quirky partner, Ed, have now been given a homicide case to investigate. Sam knows he will be retiring from his second law enforcement career in a week. The Alaskan has seven days to investigate the case and it's a tough one. Each day is full of adventure, folly and new discoveries. Can Sam and Ed solve this case in only seven days?

“No Dog Should Die Alone” was the attention-grabbing — and heart-stirring — headline of journalist Laura T. Coffey’s TODAY show website story about photographer Lori Fusaro’s work with senior shelter pets. While generally calm, easy, and already house-trained, these animals often represent the highest-risk population at shelters. With gorgeous, joyful photographs and sweet, funny, true tales of “old dogs learning new tricks,” Coffey and Fusaro show that adopting a senior can be even more rewarding than choosing a younger dog. You’ll meet endearing elders like Marnie, the irresistible shih tzu who has posed for selfies with Tina Fey, James Franco, and Betty White; Remy, a soulful nine-year-old dog adopted by elderly nuns; George Clooney’s cocker spaniel, Einstein; and Bretagne, the last known surviving search dog from Ground Zero. They may be slower moving and a tad less exuberant than puppies, but these pooches prove that adopting a senior brings immeasurable joy, earnest devotion, and unconditional love.