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GRADES K-3
Gentle giants or giant monsters?
That's the question Jack and Annie have
about gorillas when the Magic Tree House
sweeps them to the mountains of Africa.
A 2014 Caldecott Honor Book (wordless
picture book) A cat named Mr. Wuffles….and a
little spaceship full of actual aliens.
"My name is King. I am a dog. I am also a detective."
Seven-year-old Ben loves pretending to be a robot, but his best
friend Jessy is tired of being ordered to oil his knee joints and
check his batteries. She says the robot game is boring and runs
off to play with someone else.
King has a very big mystery to solve. His family is
missing, and he's been put in the P-O-U-N-D. Why
doesn't his beloved human (Kayla) come to get him?
When King is adopted by Connor and his mom, things
get more confusing. The new family calls him Buddy!
The moment they saw each other, Bean and Ivy knew they
wouldn't be friends. But when Bean plays a joke on her sister,
Nancy, and has to hide quickly, Ivy comes to the rescue,
proving that sometimes the best of friends are people never
meant to like each other.
It is almost Earth Day, and Katie and her
friends all want to keep the Earth green.
To do her part, Katie organizes a yard
sale.
What's the best day for an alien invasion?
Halloween, of course. When Eek and Ack visit
Earth during the ghoulish holiday, they fit right in
with the other trick-or-treaters. Unfortunately, so
does Wolfy the Wolfman!
Deep, deep down in their underground town, the
prairie dogs live in harmony - until a mysterious,
fluorescent, very fuzzy thing (otherwise known as
a tennis ball) rolls down their hole. When the
prairie dogs discover that they can pluck and pull
the fuzz into fabulous fashions, their fear quickly
turns to curiosity, then delight, then pure greed.
But Ella thinks that a talking frog is much more interesting
and fun than living like a princess in a castle. And when she
introduces her life to the royal prince, he tends to agree. Their
friendship grows and when he does return to his world at the
castle he makes a deal with his parents to allow him to
continue his royal duties while also taking time out to play
with his best friend...And, of course, only the kiss of a true
friend can break the curse and return him to his true princely
form.
Jasper John Dooley's beloved Nan is leaving on a cruise for a
whole week! He feels so pththth. All he can think about is Nan
missing out on their Wednesday card game, and whether it's
raining where she is, too, and if she will ever come back. But
each day something happens, from a stapling mishap to a
hamster escape, and Jasper realizes that waiting for someone
to return from an adventure takes forever ?
At last, it's Jasper John Dooley's turn to be Star of the
Week at school. Unfortunately, nothing turns out as
planned. His Show and Tell falls flat. A new baby at his
friend Ori's house steals his spotlight. And worst of all,
the new baby has only-child Jasper wondering if his
own family is too small.
Readers can explore the many amazing things
animals can do with their ears, eyes, mouths,
noses, feet, and tails in this beautifully illustrated
interactive guessing book.
Acclaimed writer Joan Holub and Caldecott Honoree Melissa
Sweet team up in this hilarious and exuberant retelling of
Little Red Riding Hood, in which a brave, little red pencil finds
her way through the many perils of writing a story, faces a
ravenous pencil sharpener (the Wolf 3000)... and saves the day.
At the turn of the nineteenth century, a retired
sixty-two-year-old charm school instructor named
Annie Edson Taylor, seeking fame and fortune,
decided to do something that no one in the world
had ever done before—she would go over Niagara
Falls in a wooden barrel
Reliability, devotion and faithfulness: endearing
qualitiesshared between people and their canine companions.
Shep is the true story of a dog that became an inspiration to
peoplearound the world. Following the death of his owner in
1936, Shep watched as his body was placed on a train and
shippedeast. For more than five years, through rain and snow,
Shepmet every incoming train with hopes that he would see
theman who had cared for him. Even today, people visit
FortBenton, Montana, to stand at the grave of a dog whose
actionsremind us of the true meaning of loyalty and heart
Jamie loves sharks. He reads about them. He talks
about them. Sometimes he even pretends to be a shark.
Too bad no one else wants to join his Shark Club. His
peers and parents are quickly growing tired of his
current obsession. When Jamie's teacher, Mr. Claxton,
brings in a new class pet, Jamie is put in charge. But
Jamie has an accident while feeding it, and everyone
becomes upset with him. He needs to find a way to
make things right.
When Willow speaks, her words slip out as soft and shy as a
secret. At school, her barely audible whisper causes her no end
of troubles. But Willow is as resourceful as she is quiet, and she
fashions a magic microphone from items she finds in the
recycling bin. But Willow's clever invention is only a
temporary solution. How will this quiet little girl make herself
heard?
Martin Bridge returns with more daily slice-of-life adventures.
This time, Martin's first overnight camping trip with the
Junior Badgers is going to be a weekend with the works!
There are badges to earn, gooey campfire treats to eat, hiking
trails to explore -and Alex's pranks to avoid. But when Martin
finds himself on the receiving end of his friend's horror-movie
slime, it's payback time! Join Martin Bridge as he blazes ahead
with a flashy campfire performance, an inspired prank of his
own, some lightning-fast bicycle repairs and a surefire way to
make his father's old lawn mower go like blazes.
GRADES 3-6
Sheila Tubman sometimes wonders who she really is: the
outgoing, witty, and capable Sheila the Great, or the secret
Sheila, who's afraid of the dark, spiders, swimming, and dogs.
Ivy Weatherall and her family leave a comfortable life in
London for the promised riches of Canada's expanding West.
Expecting to make their fortunes on Uncle Alf's ranch, the
Weatheralls are shocked to find themselves living in a sod hut
on a rented farm.
Marty McGuire's third-grade class has a special
assignment: Save the Earth! Even more exciting, the
best project wins a special award. Marty's pretty sure
her classmates' ideas won't stand a chance against her
plan to turn the garbage from the school cafeteria into
fertilizer. All she needs is a little help from her
teammate and best friend, Annie--and the worms in her
grandma's garden.
Melonhead is my preferred name. Preferred by
me, not my mom. She likes people to call me by my
real name, Adam Melon. Luckily, it’s too late for
that because when my friend, Lucy Rose, invented
Melonhead, it caught on fast.
Captain Amazing, hero of Metro City, is so busy
catching criminals that he rarely has time for his
pets at home. He doesn't even notice when they
develop superpowers of their own.
The most terrifying events in history are
brought vividly to life in this new fictional
series! In book 1, ten-year-old George is trapped
on the Titanic -- how will he survive?
The world of Lio is filled with the extraordinary—
monsters under the bed, wild reptile pets, robot
inventions, weird science—but it’s all
commonplace for this most uncommon young man
When a fortuneteller's tent appears in the
market square of the city of Baltese, orphan
Peter Augustus Duchene knows the questions
that he needs to ask: Does his sister still live?
And if so, how can he find her?
When his family leaves Ukraine to make a new life in the
Americas, twelve-year-old Andrei is furious and upset at
having to leave behind his loyal companion, Brovko the
sheepdog. Brovko isn't happy either. It soon becomes clear
what he has to do: find a way to follow Andrei and be reunited
with him.
In a humorous and insightful novelabout
dares,divorce and friendship,Lisa Graff tells the
story of fourth-graders Kansas Bloom and
Francine Halata, who start out as archenemies,
until--in a battle of wits and willpower--they
discover that they have a lot more in common
than either would have guessed.
Based on a true story, fourteen year old Werner
Franz works as a cabin boy aboard the German
zeppelin, the Hindenburg, and resourcefully
survives its fatal crash.
This is the story of Desperaux Tilling, a mouse in
love with music, stories, and a princess named Pea.
It begins, as the best superhero stories do, with a tragic
accident that has unexpected consequences. The squirrel never
saw the vacuum cleaner coming, but self-described cynic Flora
Belle Buckman, who has read every issue of the comic book
Terrible Things Can Happen to You!, is the just the right person
to step in and save him
The spring of 1955 tests Laurie Valentine’s gifts as
a storyteller. After her friend Dickie contracts
polio and finds himself confined to an iron lung,
Laurie visits him in the hospital. There she meets
Carolyn and Chip, two other kids trapped inside
the breathing machines.
When homeschooled farm girl Piper McCloud reveals her
ability to fly, she is quickly taken to a secret government
facility to be trained with other exceptional children, but she
soon realizes that something is very wrong and begins working
with brilliant and wealthy Conrad to escape.
The smell of salt water, a gust of seabreeze, and the bell-like
ringing of a fairy's laugh are the only hints that something
magical is happening to Kate, Mia, Lainey, and Gabby. In a
blink of an eye, the four friends are whisked out of their
ordinary lives to the most wonderful place of all—Never Land,
home to fairies, mermaids . . . and now four lost girls.
Visiting his dad's hometown in Japan four months after his
father's death would be hard enough for Ben. But one morning
the pain turns to fear: first, a massive earthquake rocks the
quiet coastal village, nearly toppling his uncle's house. Then
the ocean waters rise and Ben and his family are swept awayand pulled apart-by a terrible tsunami.
Razia dreams of getting an education, but in
her small village in Afghanistan, girls haven't
been allowed to attend school for many years.
When a new girls' school opens in the village, a
determined Razia must convince her father and
oldest brother that educating her would be best
for her, their family and their community.
Hiroshima-born Sadako is lively and athletic--the
star of her school's running team. And then the
dizzy spells start. Soon gravely ill with leukemia,
the "atom bomb disease," Sadako faces her future
with spirit and bravery.
If you see a shark lurking beneath the oceans
surface, get out of the water! These lethal
predators have powerful jaws and sharp teeth
that can shred flesh and cut through bone. Given
this fact, its no surprise that a shark bite can be
deadly. Each year, unsuspecting swimmers die
from attacks.
Josh has already won a gold medal in figure
skating, so he is looking for a new challenge. He
decides that hockey is a good fit for his super
skating ability. But when he gets out on the
hockey rink, he soon realizes changing sports
won't be as easy as he thought. After all, there are
no figure eights in hockey.
Walking through the misty Florida woods one morning,
twelve-year-old Rob Horton is stunned to encounter a tiger - a
real-life, very large tiger - pacing back and forth in a cage.
What’s more, on the same extraordinary day, he meets Sistine
Bailey, a girl who shows her feelings as readily as Rob hides
his. As they learn to trust each other, and ultimately, to be
friends, Rob and Sistine prove that some things - like
memories, and heartaches, and tigers - can’t be locked up
forever.
Only one more week until Book #5 in the
Nightmare on Zombie Street series comes out.
When it does, Stink will be the first in line to buy
his copy and join the town’s Midnight Zombie
Walk!
Did you know that a group of skunks is called a stench?
(No lie!) Can you believe that in colonial days, windowwashing rags were dipped in pee? Or that snail slime
was once an ingredient in cough syrup? Stink has a
nose for yuck and muck, and this book is full of it:
moose poop festivals, mouse brain toothpaste, maggot
cheese, and way more. Its pages are crawling with more
than two hundred facts, quizzes, recipes, and bits of
trivia about things that are gross, bad, and smelly. P.U.
At age two, Helen Keller became deaf and blind. She lived in a
world of silence and darkness and she spent the rest of her life
struggling to break through it. But with the help of teacher
Annie Sullivan, Helen learned to read, write, and do many
amazing things.
In her amazing diary, Anne Frank revealed the challenges and
dreams common for any young girl. But Hitler brought her
childhood to an end and forced her and her family into hiding.
Who Was Anne Frank? looks closely at Anne’s life before the
secret annex, what life was like in hiding, and the legacy of her
diary.
Young Waluk is all alone. His mother has
abandoned him, as is the way of polar bears, and
now he must fend for himself. But he doesn't know
much about the world—and unfortunately, his
Arctic world is changing quickly. The ice is
melting, and food is hard to find.
That's what Jack and Annie get when the Magic
Tree House whisks them back to the 1870s. They
land on the prairie near a one-room schoolhouse,
where they meet a teenage schoolteacher, some
cool kids, and one big, scary bully. But the biggest
and scariest thing is yet to come!
Once, in a house on Egypt Street, there lived a
china rabbit named Edward Tulane. The rabbit
was very pleased with himself, and for good
reason: he was owned by a girl named Abilene,
who treated him with the utmost care and adored
him completely.
For hundreds of years explorers attempted to find
the Northwest Passage — a route through the
islands of Canada’s north to the Pacific Ocean and
Asia. Others attempted to find a land route. Many
hundreds of men perished in the attempt until
finally, in 1906, Roald Amundsen completed the
voyage by ship.
GRADES 5-8
Mythological monsters and the gods of Mount Olympus seem to
be walking out of the pages of twelve-year-old Percy Jackson's
textbooks and into his life.
Tree-ear, an orphan, lives under a bridge in Ch’ulp’o, a potters’
village famed for delicate celadon ware. He has become
fascinated with the potter’s craft; he wants nothing more than
to watch master potter Min at work, and he dreams of making a
pot of his own someday.
Jamie thought everything was perfect on his
hockey team. But when the goalie is injured,
Jamie has to step in to play the unfamiliar
position. With the state championship at stake, can
Jamie help his team skate to victory or are they all
on thin ice?
He would have to find some way to protect himself.
Many hundreds of years ago, the city of Ember was created by
the Builders to contain everything needed for human survival.
It worked…but now the storerooms are almost out of food,
crops are blighted, corruption is spreading through the city
and worst of all—the lights are failing. Soon Ember could be
engulfed by darkness….
The story takes place in Coconut Cove, Florida,
where new arrival Roy makes a bad enemy, two
oddball friends, and joins an effort to stop
construction of a pancake house which would
destroy a colony of burrowing owls who live on
the site. The book won a Newberry Honor award
in 2003.
The horror of Hurricane Katrina is brought vividly to life
in this fictional account of a boy, a dog, and the storm of
the century.
In January 1998, it starts to rain and it won't stop. The rain
turns to ice and causes big trouble. First, the roads are closed,
and then the power lines come down and the electricity is
gone. Alice struggles to stay warm, alone in the dark, because
her dad is working around the clock for Quebec Hydro.
Meanwhile, Sophie and her family fi ght to look after their
high-maintenance dairy cows without power to run the water
pumps, the milking machines or anything else.
As you follow the pictorial story of this worldfamous ship, you will discover how she was
built and equipped, what kind of passengers
and crew she carried, and how she struck an
iceberg and met with disaster.
In No Shelter Here, animal advocate and chartered
biologist Rob Laidlaw explores the world of homeless,
free ranging, mistreated, and exploited dogs, and the
challenges they face. But more importantly, he focuses
on the people he calls "dog champions"--those
individuals, small groups and professional
organizations around the world who dedicate their
lives to helping dogs
As an acrobat in a traveling
circus, 14-year-old orphan
Dessa Redd flies through the
air with ease. Still, she is
weighed down by troubling
memories. But when her
ragtag circus troupe pulls
into the city of Kingsbridge,
Dessa feels a tickle of hope.
Maybe here in the royal city
she will finally find her twin
brother--or the mysterious
man who snatched him away
when they were just children.