A young girl named Trina helps introduce readers to what water is, why it is important to people, why it is important to conserve it, why it is important to avoid polluting it, and steps that children
What do hammers, wheelbarrows, and brooms have in common? All of them are levers! Levers are simple machines. They help us to do jobs more easily. But don't take our word for it. Put levers to the tes
What do bicycles, doorknobs, and screwdrivers have in common? All of them use wheels and axles to perform work! Wheels and axles are simple machines. They help us to do jobs more easily. But don't tak
Many people believed NFL quarterback Aaron Rodgers would quickly become a star when he joined the Green Bay Packers in 2005. But as the backup to Brett Favre, Aaron didn't get to play much during his
Is teamwork impossible for these brothers and sisters? Badger brothers Grub and Bristle want to build a boat with their friends, but their new fox sister Ginger always tries to take charge. Everyone h
Jenny loves to jump. But when jumping gets her in trouble, she decides to retire her pogo stick. Then her school decides to hold a fundraising fair, and she discovers that her skill can be used for a
It's not going to hurt anyone.Fish hates having to take ADHD medication. It helps him concentrate, but it also makes him feel weird. So when his crush, Ella, needs a boost to study for tests, Fish off
Mr. Venezi has put up a “help wanted” sign in the pet shop. He needs someone to keep track of the animals. But more help might mean he sells more pets, and the animals will have to leave their home. S
Ruby invites everyone to a grand Valentine's Day party at her mountaintop home, but when a blizzard keeps her guests away, she decides to take the carefully planned party into town.
Throughout the day when Howard B. Wigglebottom faces choices about whether to tell the truth or not, he sometimes makes the wrong choice, but soon his guilt starts to feel like a monkey on his back ur
After a rockfall blocks the hippos' river and they move to the river where the elephants live, Elmer convinces the elephants to help move the rocks so that the hippos can return home.
Sammy Spider crawls down his web to inspect the candy apple Josh has attached to his Simchat Torah flag. When Josh leaves for synagogue, he doesn’t notice the spider stuck to his apple! Atop Josh’s fl
When a group of friends starts getting together to play an old game that they discovered in a basement called "Black Magic," they begin to discover that the game's promise of granting good fortune at
Required to attend summer school after moving to Chicagoland, 13-year-old manga-lover Megan Yamamura needs help from 12-year-old computer genius Raf to escape the maniacal principal's mind-control exp
When Ruth and her parents take a motor trip from Chicago to Alabama to visit her grandma, they rely on a pamphlet called "The Green Book" to find places that will serve them; a real guide, "The Green
When Howard B. Wigglebottom has trouble managing his anger and gets in trouble at school, his friend Ali helps him figure out how to back away and feel better.
Believing her stuffed bear to be a devoted companion who uses karate to protect her from the monsters that roam in the night, Bella is challenged to be brave on her own when her bear goes missing.
Asked to help Rose, a young elephant, find her way back to the herd, Elmer and his cousin, Wilbur, are astonished to discover that Rose is pink, a finding that teaches them about being different and
When Ali is sad because her parents are fighting, Howard B. Wigglebotton, a bunny who likes to fix things, discovers that sometimes all a friend can do to help is to be a friend.
Lucy wants to make Mother's Day special, avoiding the disasters she usually creates, so she works with her neighbor, Diego, to celebrate the holiday as it is done in Mexico.
In the late 1500s, while the conductor of the Royal Orchestra of Barcelona prepares for a concert to celebrate Spain’s colonies in the New World, his son secretly practices playing the Shofar to help
When Jazz's pet piglet gets sick and the veterinarian suspects it was poisoned, she and Milo use their detective skills to try to figure out who did it.
When Chico the monkey wakes up to a loud clatter, he puts on his tool belt and searches his tree house to find what is making the noise, only to discover Clark the elephant stuck in the laundry chute.
From one of China’s most famous epics comes a righteous hero and god of war. Guan Yu, an ancient Chinese warrior, fights side by side with his blood brothers Liu Bei and Zhang Fei to squash the menaci
When best friends Gus and Mickey go camping, Gus wants to put his survival skills to the test while Mickey brings everything from pizza to a television set.
Nine-and-a-half-year-old Mallory's trepidation about going to sleepaway camp is multiplied when she and her best friend are assigned to different cabins, and a new "friend" seems determined to get Mal
As the hero of a graphic novel whose spaceship is stranded on Planet J for repairs, the reader is asked to make choices throughout the story to avoid being annihilated by three gruesome aliens. Simult
Landslides can bury homes and bulldoze trees. Students learn about the conditions that can lead to these natural disasters, including flooding and land erosion.
Long ago in Africa, the sky god Nyame keeps all of the stories to himself, but when Anansi the spider asks their price, Nyame agrees to trade his stories if Anansi can perform four seemingly impossibl
When the children at school laugh at him, Howard the rabbit decides to stop dancing even though he loves it, until he realizes his dancing is what makes him unique.
Something has been making tracks in Oscar's backyard and eating his mother's red flowers, so Oscar and his friends devise a plan to get a clearer set of prints and compare them to pictures in a librar
