Synopsis: In Butterfly Meadow, colorful butterflies dance through the air, glowworms inch through the grass, and bumblebees buzz around every flower. It's a place where friendships and adventures take flight!Skipper, Dazzle, and their friends plan to spend the day flitting about the forest. But an unexpected storm spells trouble for the butterflies --- especially when they discover a cocoon about to hatch. Can Skipper help this new butterfly weather the…

Synopsis: In this all-new very special miniseries, the Aldens have been recruited by a secret society to return lost artifacts and treasures to their rightful locations--all around the world! The final leg of the Aldens' journey brings them to South America and to the Salt Flats in northern Argentina. But when they hit a dead end, they realize someone has tricked them in order to delay their plans! Returning to Buenos Aires, the Aldens connect with the…

Synopsis: This sequel to the award-winning Water Beds: Sleeping in the Ocean (2007 Teacher’s Choice & 2005 Mom’s Choice) takes readers on an around-the-world boat ride to learn how mammals sleep in or around nine major rivers of the world on all continents except Antarctica. Row down the Mississippi and watch two river otters slip into a hollow tree or look to the bank of the Brisbane River as a platypus pops into a hole and disappears into a narrow…

Synopsis: The most beloved and oft-adapted work by Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow follows a love triangle in the New York countryside in 1790. Sleepy Hollow, a supposedly haunted glen on the outskirts of Tarry Town, is home to a particularly ghoulish fiend - the Headless Horseman - who is said to be the specter of a fallen soldier. Ichabod Crane, a schoolmaster from Connecticut, competes with local hero Abraham 'Brom Bones' Van Brunt for…

Synopsis: Six-year-old Ramona tries to cope with an unsympathetic first-grade teacher.

Synopsis: What do class pets get up to when students aren't around? Adventure -- and lots of trouble!Class 5B has a substitute teacher -- and he's the worst! Fuzzy might just be 5B's pet guinea pig, but he will not stand by while his kids suffer. With the help of the Class Pets Club, Fuzzy is going to drive the terrible sub out of town ... or lose his whiskers trying!

Synopsis: Key Features Description Murray's adorable Gingerbread Man returns for the holiday season. This time, he works with his classmates to create gifts for the community workers. Not only is this a sweet book about the value of creating gifts with one's own hands, but also doing kind deeds for others. The inclusion of many different community helpers also makes it valuable book about jobs.At the end of the book, the students surprise their teacher…

Synopsis: Can you believe Hershey's was not always a chocolate company? Milton Hershey only started to make this sweet treat as a coating for his already-popular caramels. But when he started to sell the extra chocolate in bar form, he became the first milk chocolate producer in America. Readers will delight in learning more about their favorite candy in this delicious title.

Synopsis: Ten-year-old Marcus plans to become a professional basketball player, but when he, his twin sister, and their classmates meet a real star on a school field trip, they learn the importance of dreaming more than one career dream.

Synopsis: Five children find entry tickets to Willy Wonka's mysterious chocolate factory. The tour brings out the best and worst in them.

Synopsis: Describes how humans, plants, and animals survive at the North and South Poles, the effect of human industrial activity on the polar landscapes, and how changes in the world's weather patterns affect the Poles.

Synopsis: After a mysterious egg hatches into a baby dragon, Wiglaf and his roommate Angus decide to keep it.

Synopsis: For use in schools and libraries only. Documents the life cycle and ecosystem of the giant saguaro cactus and the desert animals it helps to support.

Synopsis: Storyline Online Selection - SAG-AFTRA Foundation / Storyline Online The spirited story of Marcenia Lyle, the African American girl who grew up to become "Toni Stone," the first woman to play for an all-male professional baseball team. If there was anything in the world better than playing baseball, Marcenia Lyle didn't know what it was. As a young girl in the 1930s, she chased down fly balls and stole bases, and dreamed of one day playing…

Synopsis: Joe Stoshack travels back to 1919, where he meets Shoeless Joe Jackson and tries to prevent the fixing of the World Series in which Jackson was wrongly implicated.

Synopsis: Spring becomes a memorable time for Miss Mackle's second-grade classroom because of the antics of Horrible Harry and the special insights of shy Song Lee.

Synopsis: 本书融会了牛津大学几百年来的教育理念,结合牛津大学著名教授、学子的诸多经验和成功经历,以及流传在牛津校园内的经典格言与故事,提炼了牛津所特有的十项核心品质,生动刻画了牛津大学内涵所带来的力量,引导青年人走向成功。

Synopsis: A retelling of 10 fables by Aesop including "The Fox and the Crow," "The Crow and the Water Jug," and "The Lion and the Mouse."