Synopsis: Key Features Description The zoo is closing! Ellie and her friends want to save their home, but Ellie's just a baby elephant, and she doesn't know what she can do to help. While the other animals are busy working, Ellie finds some paints and gives the zoo a big splash of color that just might save the day! The zoo is closing! Ellie and her friends want to save their home, but Ellie's just a baby elephant, and she doesn't know what she can do to…

Synopsis: Young readers will be eager to sample the literary genius in the Treasury of Illustrated Classics series. Short, concise chapters in each of the 12 1-c illustrated titles will keep them in anticipation of the adventure built into every beloved tale. Each must-have title is as engaging for first-time readers as those revisiting their favorite stories! Hardcover editions and charmingly illustrated covers add to their appeal.

Synopsis: Catie isn't superstitious, but when she throws away a chain letter, bad things start happening to her and her family.

Synopsis: "Anyone who finds it is finding a jewel. Its themes are profound and universal."--The Wall Street Journal It is the now-classic story of two fathers and two sons and the pressures on all of them to pursue the religion they share in the way that is best suited to each. And as the boys grow into young men, they discover in the other a lost spiritual brother, and a link to an unexplored world that neither had ever considered before. In effect, they…

Synopsis: Introduces opposites using painted wooden folk art animal sculptures made by artisans from Oaxaca, Mexico.

Synopsis: From Baa, Baa Black Sheep and Hush-a-Bye-Baby to Jack and Jill and Ring Around the Rosies, here are the classic baby's first Real Mother Goose Rhymes we all know and love. With gently enhanced Blanche Fisher Wright artwork and our trademarked black-and-white checkerboard border and design, this will be a must-have gift for all new parents. Children will cherish these whimsical, unforgettable rhymes and treasure them throughout their lives.

Synopsis: On a snowy winter's night in Vermont, eleven-year-old Adam Fifield and his family awaited the arrival of his new foster brother, Soeuth, a fourteen-year-old refugee from the killing fields of Cambodia.  Scrawny and terrified, Soeuth was mute for days, warily retreating into his room despite the Fifields' numerous attempts to make him feel welcome.  But for Soeuth, whose young life had been plagued with fear and violence, it would be months…

Synopsis: Easy-to-read rhyming tale of firefighters coming to the rescue in their shiny red truck.

Synopsis: An autobiographical narrative in which the author describes his experiences in Nazi concentration camps, watching family and friends die, and how they led him to believe that God is dead.

Synopsis: This anthology provides students with more than 100 celebrated poems that are suitable for performance.

Synopsis: A troubled teenage boy searches for the father he has never known.

Synopsis: The snow is falling and Roberto can't wait to get outside. But when he has to stay late at school, he can't help feeling sad. Will his day turn around?

Synopsis: They say something very strange is happening to some of the people of Salem. That some of the young girls have become - troubled. And the fear is beginning to spread. Mary and her mother don't hear about the rumors right away. They don't know that many of the villagers believe that some of Mary's friends have had spells cast on them - by witches. Or that one of the accused is Mary's mother. Now Mary and her brother, Caleb, have a decision to…

Synopsis: Reece is being harassed by ex-girlfriend Natalie. How far will she go to avenge a broken heart?

Synopsis: Ben, a runner, must decide what is the right thing to do when his grades, which are not good enough for him to make the track team, are confused with those of another student with the same last name.

Synopsis: Come along on an adventure through the rain forest. Along the way, you'll meet new friends big and small, see amazing sights, and learn all about the creatures that make their home in the rain forest. Told in simple yet lively text built with sight words and using picture icons to aid reading, National Geographic Pre-readers will enchant kids just beginning their journey with books.