Synopsis: Charley does not like Valentine's Day. He thinks it is too mushy. Clifford and Emily Elizabeth want to show him that caring can be cool!

Synopsis: The kids in Ms. Frizzle's class have traveled the globe learning cool science facts. Read their reports, and let them take you on a fun-filled field trip on the Magic School Bus.Contents ;From the desk of Ms. FrizzleDiving UnderwaterFlying Through the AirFreezing on the IceLiving on the Land

Synopsis: Teasel is sad when his hedgehog friend, Bramble, has to hibernate. But he's determined that Bramble shouldn't miss out on the fun of winter when he's asleep.This is a heart-warming tale of separation and friendship.

Synopsis: Key Features Description In this first book of the series, Clementine tries to help out her friend Margaret, but ends up in a lot of trouble for it. Things get worse each day of the week, until finally she's worried that Margaret is right: Clementine's parents might consider her "the hard one" in the family. They're up to something mysterious; are they thinking they'd be better off if they only had her little vegetable-named brother, Radish,…

Synopsis: There's something strange about Leyton and Wade Tardy's pet cat. Skinny Cat is the scrawniest, scraggliest, laziest cat ever, but he has one very big, very disgusting talent-he can cough up hair balls like a champ! But will that be enough for him to win the school's Catalent Contest? Not if Fibby Mandible, the shool's bossiest, snobbiest girl have anything to say about it! Another incredibly hilarious and smelly Tardy Boys Tale...

Synopsis: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Mr. Crocodile intends to catch and eat five annoying monkeys, but as the hours pass, the monkeys outwit him again and again, and wind up teaching Mr. Crocodile a valuable lesson about friendship.

Synopsis: 2007 From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (P) by E. L. Konigsburg ***Grade Level: 6.8 / Guided Reading Level: S / Lexile: 700 ***John Newbery Medal Winner ***ISBN-13: 9780545041737 ***162 Pages

Synopsis: Hedgehog has finished building a cozy nest for winter. Unfortunately, a ripe apple falls from the tree above and gets stuck in her spines, making it impossible for her to fit in her new digs. She has several friends to whom she can go for advice, but their instructions simply make her situation worse. She ends up with other bits and pieces stuck to her body in addition to the apple -- including nuts, a pear, a dried leaf, and some berries. Then…

Synopsis: Key Features Description A stirring, dramatic story of a slave who mails himself to freedom by a Jane Addams Peace Award-winning author and a Coretta Scott King Award-winning artist. Henry "Box" Brown doesn't know how old he is. Nobody keeps records of slaves' birthdays. All the time he dreams about freedom, but that dream seems farther away than ever when he is torn from his family and put to work in a warehouse. Henry grows up and marries, but…

Synopsis: A bittersweet tale of a faithful pet who waits for his master's return from war.

Synopsis: Key Features Description Winner or washout? When it comes to tackling third grade, Clementine is at the top of her game - okay, so maybe not all the time. After her teacher announces that the third and fourth graders will be putting on a talent show, Clementine panics. She doesn't sing or dance or play an instrument. She can't even hop with finesse. And as if she didn't feel bad enough, her perfect best friend, Margaret, has so many talents, she…

Synopsis: The Siamese kitty boy with the gigantico imagination has returned for another loco adventure!Skippyjon Jones is a rambunctious kitty boy with very large ears and a gigantico imagination to match. He dreams of becoming El Skippito, his Zorro-like alter ego, who is really a Chihuahua. Skippito gets to speak with a Spanish accent; he gets to wear a mask and cape. And he gets to help out his Chihuahua friends down in Old Mexico by driving a scary…

Synopsis: If you were a snake, you could . . . sleep all winter! grow as long as a school bus! swallow your food whole! crawl out of your skin! Featuring stunning full-color photographs from the Wildlife Conservation Society, this is the latest title in an exciting I Can Read Book series that takes readers into the "amazing" world of animals.

Synopsis: This adventure novel about survival at sea by Newbery Honor author Gary Paulsen is now available in an After Words paperback edition!David thought he was alone, that the ocean around him was all there was of the world. The wind screamed, the waves towered, and his boat, the twenty-two foot fiberglass FROG, skidded and bucked and, each moment, filled deeper and grew heavier with sea water.David thought surely he was dead at fourteen. His uncle…

Synopsis: Key Features Description Since he was little, Capricorn Cap Anderson has lived on a farm commune and has been home-schooled by his hippie grandmother, Rain. When Rain breaks her hip in a fall from a tree and is hospitalized, Cap is forced to attend the local middle school. Although he knows a lot about Zen Buddhism, nothing has prepared him for the politics of public school, where students take advantage of his naivety. Since he was little,…

Synopsis: "Little fish, little fish, let me come in.""Not by the skin of my finny fin fin!""Then I'll munch, and I'll crunch, and I'll smash your house in!"Mama tells her three little fish that it's time to make their own homes. Jim builds his house of seaweed, but the big bad shark munches it up. Tim builds his house of sand, but the shark crunches it up. It's smart Kim who sets up house in an old sunken ship!Children will delight in this silly story…

Synopsis: As I read my list of rules over again, I felt myself splitting right in two. Half of me was thinking, Georgina, don't do this. Stealing a dog is just plain wrong.The other half of me was thinking, Georgina, you're in a bad fix and you got to do whatever it takes to get yourself out of it.Georgina Hayes is desperate. Ever since she and her mama and little brother were evicted from their apartment, they've been living in their car. And she hates…

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Synopsis: 2006 Dooby Dooby Moo (P) by Doreen Cronin / Illustrated by Betsy Lewin ***ISBN-13: 9780545110112

Synopsis: Leroy Brown, aka Encyclopedia Brown, is Idaville's ten-year-old star detective. With an uncanny knack for trivia, he solves mysteries for the neighbourhood kids through his own detective agency. But his dad also happens to be the chief of police, and every night around the dinner table, Encyclopedia helps him solve his most baffling crimes. Join Encyclopedia Brown as he solves ten of his newest and most confounding mysteries, including a case of…