Synopsis: Key Features Description Camilla Cream loves lima beans, but she never eats them. Why? Because the other kids in her school don't like them. Camilla Cream is very worried about what other people think about her, but at the very moment she most wants to fit in, she becomes completely covered in colorful stripes! Worse yet, she seems to change colors to match whatever is happening around her. When the class says the Pledge of Allegiance, she turns…

Synopsis: Learn about animals and their amazing superpowers in this photographic comic-inspired reader!Think superpowers only exist with superheroes in comics and movies? You're so wrong! With ANIMAL SUPERPOWERS, young readers will learn all about the amazing things animals do every day--things we normally think are impossible. Can you imagine being so strong you could lift over 1000 times your own weight? Or being so fast you could outrun a speeding…

Synopsis: Having used their magic tree house to travel to India, where they must get a gift to help free the dog Teddy from a spell, Jack and Annie have adventures involving a tiger and other endangered jungle animals.

Synopsis: Budding entrepreneurs will love the unforgettable Cleopatra Edison Oliver in this multiracial, capitalist tale that's equal parts The Lemonade War and Encyclopedia Brown.Cleopatra Edison Oliver has always been an entrepreneur, just like her inspiration, successful businesswoman Fortune A. Davies. So when Cleo's fifth-grade teacher assigns her class a "Passion Project," Cleo comes up with her best business idea yet: the finest "tooth-pulling"…

Synopsis: The pressure's really piling up on Greg Heffley. His mom thinks video games are turning his brain to mush, so she wnats her son to put down the controller and explore his "creative side".As if that's not scary enough, Halloween is just around the corner and the frights are coming at Greg from every angle.When he discovers a bag of gummy worms, it sparks an idea. Can Greg get his mom off his back by making a movie.... and will he become rich and…

Synopsis: In his second adventure, eleven-year-old Gregor returns to the world beneath New York City to rescue his kidnapped sister, Boots, and fulfill a prophecy that will restore peace to the people, bats, rats, cockroaches, and spiders who populate the underworld.

Synopsis: translated by Richard Howard