Nancy E. Krulik

Katie Carew wishes she could be anyone but herself, and turns into a hamster.

No messin' with my lesson: Katie's teacher, Mrs. Derkman, hopes to win the Teacher of the Year contest, but her chances do not look good when Katie turns into her teacher and cannot keep a class full of out-of-control third-graders in line. No bones about it: Katie and her third-grade class go on a field trip to the natural history museum where Katie finds herself magically transported into the body of their tour guide.

Ten-year-old George Brown tries his best to earn money for a special toy he wants, but whether he is working in his mother's craft shop or setting up a backyard circus, the magic burps erupt at exactly the wrong time and foil his plans.

"Sparky is off to Rome! Will he be able to outsmart the cunning Italian cat who has stolen his bone, or will he have to stay in Rome forever?"--

A princess who would rather be a knight accepts her skeptical king father's challenge to perform good deeds in order to prove her worthiness to attend knight school, an endeavor that is supported by a friendly dragon and a perpetually terrified knight-in-training.

While her class is studying reptiles, Katie, a vegetarian, refuses to feed worms to Slinky the snake, class 4A's pet, but when the magic wind turns her into Slinky, Katie learns that some animals cannot survive on vegetables alone.

George cannot wait to go on his first camping trip with the Beaver Scouts, but once in the wilderness his magical super burp returns, awakening animals including, perhaps, the Ferocious Furry Frog.

George is the catcher for the school baseball team, but when they play their archrivals in the championship game, will a magical super burp lead the Sugarman Sea Monkeys to victory or defeat?

I hate rules: When Katie magically turns into the principal and announces there are no rules, she creates a big mess. Get lost: While on a class field trip, Katies changes places with the counselor and gets the group totally lost.

"When Sparky's magic bone blasts him to Tokyo, Japan, he discovers a whole new world--one with karaoke, 'squishy fishy' and sumo wrestlers! His new friend, an Akita named Nanami, guides him around the city, until Sparky loses her in a crowd. But it turns out Nanami isn't just any Akita. She's the queen of the Ninja Dogs--a fierce group who are convinced that Sparky has kidnapped her"--