Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! is a clever compilation of monologues. Librarian Laura Amy Schlitz wrote each short story for the students of Park School to act out. She created several different characters to represent the different classes and rankings in medieval days. This book teaches you a lot about the brutality of medieval times. For instance, one story is about a girl whose parents tried to drown her when she was an infant because they couldn't support any more children. I would say this book falls into the coming-of-age/growing-up genre.
Thomas Mayo is your everyday nerd. With a last name like Mayo, he was bound to be made fun of, and so of course, Mayo's clever fellow classmates dubbed him Miracle Wimp (Get it, It's like Miracle Whip, except they say Wimp instead!). This is a book about him. Together him and his two good friends embark on lame but enjoyable adventures. Some of these adventures are for Mayo alone. For instance he is forced to take wood Shop with a bunch of donkeys and Mr. Boort--the bouillon cube eating teacher who wears Lucky star designer Jeans.
True Talents was a sequal to Hidden Talents. One year ago six 14-year-old boys with special talents met at Edgeveiw Alteritive school where they became close friends. Now "Trash" who can move things with his mind, has been kidnapped but doesn't remember how or why and is acting a little loopy. He is a lab rat and has to escape, that is one thing he konows for sure. Slowly but surely puzzle pieces of his past are comming together. Meanwile his friends and family believe he is dead.
