Spanish Peaks Library District

July, 1899: When Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst raise the distribution price one-tenth of a cent per paper, ten cents per hundred, the newsboys, poor enough already, are outraged. Inspired by the strike put on by the trolley workers, Jack "Cowboy" Kelly organizes a newsboys' strike. With David Jacobs as the brains of the new union, and Jack as the voice, the weak and oppressed found the strength to band together and challenge the powerful....

Back in middle school after summer vacation, Greg Heffley and his older brother Rodrick must deal with their parents' misguided attempts to have them bond.

Benjamin Franklin Gates is looking for a book containing centuries of secrets and must take several actions to recover it, including kidnapping the President of the United States.

Greg Heffley tells about his summer vacation and his attempts to steer clear of trouble when he returns to middle school and tries to keep his older brother Rodrick from telling everyone about Greg's most humiliating experience of the summer.

When Eva Wingdale sees something large and white flying above her she is convinced that it is a ghost, although most of the other owls just laugh at her--until something large and heavy and white lands on the school roof.

Durante las vacaciones de verano hace un tiempo fabuloso y todos los chicos se lo pasan al aire libre. ¿Y dónde está Greg Heffley? Encerrado en casa, con las cortinas cerradas, jugando con sus videojuegos. Greg, que reconoce ser una persona a la que le gusta estar en casa, vive sus vacaciones de verano soñadas: sin obligaciones y sin reglas. Pero su madre tiene una idea muy diferente de lo que debe ser un verano perfecto -- más relacionado con...

Fourteen-year-old Nikki Maxwell writes in her diary of her struggle to be popular at her exclusive new private school, then of finding her place after she gives up on being part of the elite group. Cuando el padre de Nikki es contratado para encargarse de la desinfección de un instituto de alto standing, no sólo consigue un trabajo para todo el año sino que a su vez consigue una beca para su hija. Y es ahí donde empieza el sinvivir de Nikki que...

Nikki's diary describes a frightful Halloween, on which she helps with her sister's ballet class party at the same time she is Brandon's date for their middle school Halloween dance, where she has promised to spend the evening with her two best friends.

Nikki Maxwell no se sorprende cuando descubre que el chico de sus sueños, Brandon, trabaja como voluntarioen un refugio para animales del vecindario. Él es un chico tan dulce, que por supuesto, no duda en ayudar a esosperritos adorables! Cuando Brandon le comenta que el refugio está en peligro y que pueden cerrarlo, Nikki va a hacertodo lo posible para que eso no suceda. Así que, junto a sus amigas, Chloe y Zoey, se apuntaran a la competición...

Nikki's diary is up to the month of April, and springtime is sure to bring more wacky adventures with Nikki and her friends Chloe, Zoey, and Brandon.