New Releases by Pam Pollack

As Dexter gets ready to introduce the Virtual Identity Teleporter to the scientific world, his sister Dee Dee pulls the switch on his invention, turning Dexter into a boy genius ballerina.

Illustrations and text present the history, geography, people, politics and government, economy, and social life and customs of Virginia, which was first colonized by the English in 1607.

To give himself more time with his experiments, Dexter creates a potion to release him from the chores of eating, sleeping, and arguing with his sister, unaware that as a by-product, he also created a dumber, destructive Dexter.

When an exchange student from another school stays with his family for a week, Malcolm finds himself in competition with her at home and in school.

Malcolm''s class has a pet parrot named Hitchcock, and each week a student takes him home for the weekend. Malcolm really can''t stand the bird. When it''s his turn to take Hitchcock home, Malcolm has an accident with a vacuum cleaner, sending Hitchcock to that Great Birdhouse in the Sky. Panicked, Malcolm replaces Hitchcock with a lookalike--but can he carry off the ruse?

A girl chases her cat Jitterbugs out of the house, around the park, and back home again.