Synopsis: Heidi Heckelbeck is a witch, but she is NOT a thief! Can she clear her name and help find her best friend’s missing pen? Maybe…with some magic!Heidi Heckelbeck’s best friend, Lucy, has a brand-new pen. It’s glittery, looks like a lollipop, smells like strawberries, and even lights up. It’s the coolest pen ever! Heidi wishes she had one just like it. And when it goes missing, Lucy accuses her best friend of taking it! Heidi Heckelbeck might be a…

Synopsis: A collection of children's books on the subject of food and nutrition.

Synopsis: In this timely tale of immigration, two cousins learn the importance of family and friendship.A year of discoveries culminates in a performance full of surprises, as two girls find their own way to belong. Mexico may be her parents’ home, but it’s certainly not Margie’s. She has finally convinced the other kids at school she is one-hundred percent American—just like them. But when her Mexican cousin Lupe visits, the image she’s created for…

Synopsis: Describes distinguishing characteristics, life cycles, and different types of bees.

Synopsis: Join Rapunzel, Ariel, Tiana, and the rest of the Disney Princesses for the fourth edition of this top-selling storybook collection, featuring 14 completely updated stories and art, over 250 illustrations and gilded pages.

Synopsis: Introduces distinguishing characteristics, life cycles, and different types of grasshoppers.

Synopsis: Provides an introduction to airplanes, discussing how they fly, the main components to a plane, and the history of the airplane.

Synopsis: Describes different types of fireflies and their physical characteristics, how and why they light up, their uses to humankind, and their life cycles.

Synopsis: - Full-color historical photographs - Table of contents, glossary, bibliography, index - Reinforced library binding - 24 pages, size: 8 1/8" x 8" - Fun Facts sidebars - Photodiagrams - Time line - Diagrams - Learn about chapter introductions - Contextual definitions of unfamiliar terms - www.FactHound.com Internet sites

Synopsis: Text and pictures try to make possible the conceptualization of a million, a billion, and a trillion.

Synopsis: Illustrations and simple text explain three types of clouds, stratus, cumulus, and cirrus.

Synopsis: The story goes... Grandmama could hit the ball a mile, catch anything that was thrown, and do everything else -- just like Josh Gibson. But unfortunately, no matter how well a girl growing up in the 1940s played the game of baseball, she would have faced tremendous challenges. These challenges are not unlike those met by the legendary Josh Gibson, arguably the best Negro-League player to never make it into the majors. In a poignant tribute to…

Synopsis: When Chester tells his mother about the school bully, she asks him to gather his friends to hear a story about getting along with people who are prickly.

Synopsis: Learn about snow and snow crystals. How water turns into snow is the focus of this book, with a discussion of blizzards and other extreme conditions.

Synopsis: While Farmer Brown sleeps, some of the animals who live on the farm go on a fishing expedition.

Synopsis: Describes determination as the virtue of setting and working toward goals and suggests ways to show determination such as having willpower to complete a task, solving a problem, and learning new things.

Synopsis: Describes the virtue of forgiveness and suggests ways in which forgiveness can be shown such as listening to others, apologizing, and learning from mistakes.

Synopsis: An easy-to-read story featuring Noodles the little white dog! It's Thanksgiving, and Noodles wants to join the fun. But Noodles doesn't like his part in the holiday parade: he doesn't want to be the Thanksgiving turkey! Noodles tries to be creative. He finds a clever solution to his problem and leads the parade--by turning his costume's tail feathers into a proud chief's headdress! This funny Level 1 story is perfect for beginning readers.

Synopsis: When Gerald the Elephant is sad, Piggie is determined cheer him up, but finds after many tries that it only takes the simplest thing to change Gerald's mood.