Everything I need to know I learned in a Thai restaurant / Christina Soontornvat --
The coolness equation / Adam Gidwitz --
This can't be happening to Gordon Korman / Gordon Korman --
I am the greatest / James Bird --
The day the hot dog truck came to town / Max Brailler --
Sweet surprise / Hena Khan --
Letter to my daughter on her eighth-grade graduation / Pablo Cartaya --
Hope in the halls of Catholic school / Karina Yan Glaser --
Helpful tips for the worst week of your life / Stuart Gibbs --
The adventures of me and Supersquirt / Sarah Mlynowski --
Panic! at the movies / Julie Buxbaum --
What's in a name? / James Ponti --
Colors of June / Rex Ogle --
On hopes and dreams / Janae Marks --
Major malfunction / Tom Angleberger --
Hope I don't see a ghost / R.L. Stine --
Victory after defeat / Soman Chainani --
My favorite photograph / Veera Hiranandani --
The boy in the back of the class / Ronald L. Smith --
The friend who changed my life / Pan Muñoz Ryan --
There's more to playin' ball that just playin' ball / Matt de la Peña.