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Elmore Green likes being an only child, so when his parents bring a new small person, his baby brother, into the house he is not pleased and does his best to keep the new small person out of his life.

Celebrates the magnificent feeling that comes from walking out of a barber shop with newly-cut hair.

"Ten-year-old Anthony Joplin has made it to double digits! Which means he's finally old enough to play in the spades tournament every Joplin Man before him seems to have won. So while Ant's friends are stressing about fifth grade homework and girls, Ant only has one thing on his mind: how he'll measure up to his father's expectations at the card table. Then Ant's best friend gets grounded, and he's forced to find another spades partner. And Shirley,...

"Eleven-year-old Roswell Johnson is obsessed with conspiracies about extraterrestrial life, an interest he inherited from his late father, who aptly named Roswell after the infamous UFO crash in Roswell, New Mexico.  When Roswell is accidentally abducted by aliens, his biggest dream comes true-he learns that aliens are real! But when he discovers Earth is in grave danger, he must join forces with a team of quirky extraterrestrials,...

Two brothers, Randy and Rudy, tap dance on a New Orleans street.

When Ellray and his friends hear about the school talent show, they're not impressed. They're too old for that stuff. But Mrs. Sanchez their teacher isn't so quick to let her students off the hook. Five students MUST try-out, and Ellray somehow ends up being one of them. Now he must figure out something he's talented at ... like, maybe magic? With some unexpected help from his dad, a scientist, Ellray begins to realize that he does have talent and...

Giant Afro. Even Bigger Brain. Jaden Toussaint is a 5 year-old who know it all. I mean, really knows it all. Animal Scientist. Great Debater. Master of the art of ninja dancing. There is nothing Jaden Toussaint can't do. The only problem is that grown-ups keep trying to convince him that, even though he's really smart, he doesn't know EVERYTHING. The thing is ... he kind of does. This time our hero must use all his super-powered brain power to convince...

"Ayaan loves being a sueprhero and offering a helping hand, but when two classmates tell him he does not look like a superhero, Ayaan's father assures him that superheroes come in all shapes and sizes."--