Adam McCauley

Joe, Fred, and Sam are transported to seventeenth century Japan where they infuriate a Samurai warrior, encounter their great-grandaughters, and save their lives by reciting an ancient form of poetry.

"Before you enter Wayside School, you should know that it's a thirty-story building with one classroom on each floor. Mrs. Jewls teaches the class on the thirtieth story. Mis Zaves teaches the class on the nineteeth story -- except there is no nineteenth story, so there is no Miss Zarves. Understand? Good. Explain it to Calvin." --

The summer after fifth grade, Cheesie and Georgie go to camp in Maine, where they discover that they are bunking with the older kids and Cheesie must face off in a Cool Duel with the dreaded Kevin Welch.

On the way to grandmother's house, a young child's constant refrain of "Are we there yet?" turns a boring car trip into an imaginative adventure.

Ten-year-old Goose is best at goofing off, but when he decides to become the goalie for their soccer team, his friend Henry sets up a practice schedule and enlists their other friends to help Goose improve his skills.

Thanks to their magical book, Fred, Sam, and Joe inadvertently travel through time to 1877 New York City, where they and their great-granddaughters, who have also come from the future, help them find a way back to their own time.

While anxiously awaiting the arrival of snow, Martin MacGregor, who built the biggest snowman in the neighborhood last year, tries to build one with substitute materials.

In their latest time travel adventure, Fred, Joe, and Sam da Brooklyn meet Leonardo da Vinci and try to avoid becoming toilet scrubbers in a sixteenth-century Italian army.

Henry and his basketball teammates, the Bats, take on the Tigers, and Henry learns a lesson about working as a team.

Joe, Fred, and Sam demonstrate some of their favorite professional wrestling moves, including the "Time Warp Trio Blind Ninja Smackdown, " when they're transported to ancient Rome and forced to fight as gladiators in the Colosseum.