Las Animas - Bent County Library District

Four fifth-grade students--a geek, a class clown, a teacher's pet, and a slacker--as well as their teacher and mothers, each relate events surrounding a computer programmed to complete homework assignments.

When an anonymous tip leads the school board to investigate a suspicious increase in scores at another local middle school, Theo finds himself thrust in the middle of a cheating scandal. With insider knowledge and his future on the line, Theo must follow his keen instincts to do whats right.

When her father will not let her stay up late to do her homework, first grader Junie B. copies a classmate's paper.

When TJ cheats on a history test and gets chosen to represent his school in a contest, he feels horribly guilty--worse, he finds himself being blackmailed for money by one of his classmates.

Cheating on a geography mid-term is just the beginning. What was done without much thought leads to big consequences-as you'll discover from six talkative eighth graders who are willing to share every juicy detail. This fast-paced look at some of the minefields of middle school is full of truth, humor, and heart.

Eleven-year-old Matt wants to make the Evergreen Racing Team but his chances are seriously threatened when a new boy moves to town and resorts to cheating in order to win.

When he skips a grade Greg finds himself in the same sixth grade class as his bullying cousin James, who would rather cheat then work hard in school.

There is only one baseball field available for the children at Cherry Hill Elementary, and Jamie Redmond and the fifth-graders insist that they have priority, so fourth-grader Sylvie suggests that they let the school spelling bee decide--and then finds herself willing do anything, including cheating and agreeing to be the girl friend of Daniel Fink, a boy who is made fun of by the other students because he has an artificial leg, to ensure that her...

Dara Simons and Will Halpern are head of the senior class at Greenpoint High, competitors for valedictorian, but also dating each other, a fact that they kept secret until Rumor Has It, an anonymous gossip site, spilled the beans--but worse is to come because the site posts a video that seems to show Dara accusing Will of paying someone to take the SAT for him and suddenly Will is under investigation and his relationship with Dara is on the rocks,...

Marion and the other students in Mr. Owen's class learn a valuable lesson about plagiarism when their teacher reads several identical student reports all copied from the same Internet source.