Ruth Mudd-O'Flaherty has been a lone wolf at her new middle school ever since her best friend, Charlotte, ditched her for “cooler” friends. Who needs friends when you have fantasy novels? Roaming the stacks of her town's library is enough for Ruth. Until she finds a note in an old book...and in that note is a riddle, one that Ruth can't solve alone. With a tantalizing set of clues before her, Ruth must admit she needs help, the kind that usually...

A sequel to "Cinderella Smith" finds Cinderella resolving to win an upcoming spelling bee when she learns that the champion will get to pick the class party theme, an effort that is challenged when her onetime friend starts bullying her for no apparent reason.

Karen wins spelling contest after contest and thinks it is great while her friends think she is a show-off.

Gwen learns that being a good sport means helping people on your team whether it is for soccer or the spelling bee.

Terribly shy, India Wimple is brilliant at spelling and her loving family will do whatever it takes to help her compete in a televised national spelling bee in Sydney, Australia.

"India and her family travel to London, England for an international spelling bee, where she reconnects with friends, meets the queen, and investigates mysterious goings-on." --

Kylie Jean is studying hard for the spelling bee at school, but she keeps getting distracted by the kitten that she and her cousin Lucy found.

"If there's one thing 10-year-old Texan Sophie Washington is good at, it's spelling. She's earned straight 100s on all her spelling tests to prove it. Her parents want her to compete in the Xavier Academy spelling bee, but Sophie wishes they would buzz off. Her life in the Houston suburbs is full of adventures, and she doesn't want to slow down the action. Where else can you chase wild hogs out of your yard, ride a bucking sheep, or spy an eight-foot-long...

When superhero Ellie does not qualify for the school spelling bee she is disappointed, but willing to help her best friend Hannah study instead--but Hannah and the other children are starting to act rather strange, and Ellie is convinced that there is something sinister about the substitute librarian, Mrs Bumble, who seems to have an awful lot of bees following her around.

Charlie Brown faces another disaster at school when he enters the spelling bee.