Howard Springs Junior IB Learner Profile: Communicator

Summary: Poor Duncan just wants to do some colouring. But when he opens his
box of crayons, all he finds are letters, each saying the same thing: we
quit! Beige is tired of playing second fiddle to Brown, Blue needs a break
from colouring all that water, while Pink just wants to be used. Green has
no complaints, but Orange and Yellow aren't speaking to each other. What is
Duncan to do?

Here's my excellent plan to make Dogzombies the best band in the whole wide world! How hard can it be? (Very). Right now I'm going to: 1. Write more songs. (Not about teachers). 2. Make a spectacular music video. (Easy.) 3. Get some sleep. (Tricky when you're being kept awake by loud noises.) 4. Annoy Delia. (Nothing to do with Dogzombies but always fun.)

MouseStar 1 is surrounded by floating space junk! It's yucky - and dangerous. It's coming from a nearby planet, Cleanix. Geronimo Stiltonix goes to visit, and discovers that the aliens there are very wasteful. Even worse, robots that they've thrown in the trash have started to rebel! Can the spacemice restore harmony before the robots take over?

Fifth-grader Sammy Hayes-Rodriguez struggles to fit in when his inventor mother requires him to take her latest creation, a robotic 'brother,' to school with him to learn to become a student.

Old, ailing Elizabeth I has heard of a plan to overthrow her. One of the rallying points for the uprising was to be the Globe Theatre, so she throws Shakespeare's theatre company into prison. Can James, a boy actor, and the bard think of a way to earn the Queen's forgiveness -and be freed?