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.

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....

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 Greg Heffley's school closes because of heavy snowfall, the neighborhood becomes an icy battlefield: rival groups compete for territory, build forts and stage big snowball fights. In their struggle for survival, Greg and Rowley will have to fight their way through alliances, betrayals and opposing gangs. When the snow melts, will the two friends get out alive from this pitched battle?

The cabin boy on the "Santa Maria" keeps a diary which records his experiences when he sails with Columbus on his first voyage to the New World in 1492.

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.

Fourteen-year-old Mia, trying to lead a normal life as a teenage girl in New York City, is shocked to learn that her father is the Prince of Genovia, a small European principality, and that she is a princess and the heir to the throne.