When she decides that the articles in the latest issue of the Third Grade Gazette are not interesting enough, Nancy sets out to find some news worth reporting on.

I got her fired. Okay, so I'd had a bad day and took it out on a bystander in a pizza shop. But there's nothing demure about Ally Morales. She proves that on her first day of her new job ... in my office... And I can't fire her, because it's my mother, the CEO, who hired her. So maybe her colorful, annoying, inexplicably alluring personality brightens up the magazine's offices that have felt like a prison for the past year. Maybe I like that she argues...

Provides a comprehensive readers advisory for children's and young adult literatures to help readers independently choose titles of interest published in the last year. Features numerous entries listing everything young readers, librarians and teachers need to know to make reading selections.

Japanese American Mika is the newest member of the Lotus Lane Girls, with her very own new diary, but she is still troubled by tensions between her different friends, and worried about her project for the school newspaper.