Synopsis: A cumulative rhyme relating how Ki-pat brought rain to the drought-stricken Kapiti Plain. Verna Aardema has brought the original story closer to the English nursery rhyme by putting in a cumulative refrain and giving the tale the rhythm of “The House That Jack Built.”

Synopsis: Tikki tikki tembo-no sa rembo-chari bari ruchi-pip peri pembo!Three decades and more than one million copies later children still love hearing about the boy with the long name who fell down the well. Arlene Mosel and Blair Lent's classic re-creation of an ancient Chinese folktale has hooked legions of children, teachers, and parents, who return, generation after generation, to learn about the danger of having such an honorable name as Tikki…

Synopsis: A young Chinese girl beginning a new life in America describes how her difficult adjustment was made more endurable when she made her first American friend.

Synopsis: Jimmy's boa constrictor wreaks havoc on the class trip to a farm.

Synopsis: Originally published in September 2000, Clifford and the Halloween Parade is now a Scholastic Reader!Everyone's favorite Big Red Dog is back again as a part of the Scholastic Reader series!It is Halloween!What will Clifford be?Clifford's friends bring him a ladder, a hose, and a light that flashes. Children will delight when Clifford marches into the Halloween parade as a big, red firetruck in this story they can read themselves!

Synopsis: Junie B is very upset when a boy in her class plans to invite everyone except her to his birthday party, but her grandfather helps her deal with the situation.

Synopsis: David Goes To School: David, the out-of-control monster-child from David Shannon's Caldecott Honor Book No, David! is back... and ready to disrupt the class. Shannon remembers the word "no" all too clearly from his childhood, and, as he says in his introduction, "It seems that kids haven't changed much over the years, and neither have school rules, some of which date back even further than the invention of sneakers."

Synopsis: A true story of a blind dog who rescued a child from drowning.

Synopsis: When the literal-minded Amelia Bedelia helps out at her doctor's office one busy day, nothing seems to go quite right until Amelia begins to treat the impatient patients.

Synopsis: Comedy

Synopsis: "Twenty-one poems that will entertain you, inspire you, and celebrate you for who you are!"--Page 4 of cover

Synopsis: Hubie has been invited to a New Year's Eve sleepover but has never spent the night away from home. What happens if he gets sick and what's all the talk about making a New Year's resolution?

Synopsis: Housekeeper Amelia Bedelia visits an art museum, where her confusion leads to surprising results.

Synopsis: There's an Earth Day celebration in store for Mrs. Green's class, and her students are working on important reports. They're out to discover all the ways the climate is changing and what can be done to help Mother Nature. One by one they pick their subjects: Freddy will cover food supply (a subject close to his heart) and Derek takes recycling because he thinks it's about riding a bike. Hubie gets stuck with water pollution, a very big problem…

Synopsis: 1999 Scholastic Phonics Chapter Books Book 2 -- Jackson's Contraptions (P) by Cass Hollander / Illustrated by Jamie Smith ***This book features: *r-Blends, l-Blends, and s-Blends, *Consonant Digraphs sh, th, wh, and ch, & *High-Frequency and story words ***ISBN-13: 9780590030892 ***Pages: 31

Synopsis: Grace is invited for a visit with her father and his new family in Africa.