What's the price of fame? Cassie is the best singer in Southside High's Glee Club and dreams of being famous. She skips school to try out for a national talent competition. But her hopes sink when she
Captured at sea . . . a young man must choose between his country and his freedom.The Atlantic Ocean, 1781. James Forten is a free African American sailor on an American ship, the Royal Louis, during
During the biggest game of her life . . . a girl pitches to the world’s best slugger.Chattanooga, Tennessee, 1931. Jackie Mitchell is a girl pitcher on a minor-league baseball team, the Chattanooga Lo
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
Elmer the elephant enlists his animal friends to help him find the end of a strange, colorless rainbow so that he can share some of his patchwork colors and make it right.
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
Directions: Mix together first three ingredients in unlimited quantities. Add a handful of resolutions and enjoy every minute of the New Year!Warning: Even the best recipes don't always turn out the w
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
When Mallory gets the lead in the school play, she cannot understand why her best friend Mary Ann is not just as excited as she is, but eventually she finds out--and learns who her real friends are.
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
Having lost their home, a fox and her daughter move in with a badger and his three children, but when the youngsters throw a big party hoping to prove that they are incompatible, their plan backfires.
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
Get to know some zany characters as they find new friends, test their talents, share exciting explorations and have a tremendously good time, in a new series that celebrates the alphabet and is perfec
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.
A Bar Mitzvah boy's kippah falls off his head and journeys around the world before finding its way back home; young readers are invited to follow the adventures of Josh's kippah from his Bar Mitzvah i
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
Once a year on Elmer's Day, all the elephants decorate themselves and have a parade, and this year Elmer comes up with a plan to include the other animals as well as the elephants.
Rhyming text expands on the nursery rhyme, "Hickory Dickory Dock," as a cat chases the mouse up the clock, followed by other animals, until midnight arrives and the tired creatures fall asleep.
In the follow-up to Dino-Hockey, the veggie-nibbling Grazers and the meat-munching Biters play a closely fought soccer match, refereed by a dodo bird and watched by a stadium full of cheering dinosaur
Mallory enters fourth grade with high hopes for her best year ever, but instead she starts by breaking the teacher's rules and then feeling left out when her best friend likes the same boy she does. R
When he and his mother move into an old farmhouse in the English countryside, asthmatic, twelve-year-old Jack discovers that he can communicate with the ghosts inhabiting the house and inadvertently e
When a new camper arrives at Camp Thundering Rock, she soon has the girls of the Chipmunk Cabin trading with everyone else, even the boys at Camp Whistling Wave.
Amateur detectives Milo and Jazz try to figure out if the haunted house they are building for the school fair has a real ghost, in a chapter book that looks at cause and effect. Simultaneous.
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
Traffic jams, news stands, and theater fans, oh my! Check out eight action-packed scenes to see what happens during a full day in a busy city. In each picture, the city buzzes with activity. Peek insi
Horses! Ducks! Cows! Would you like to see what happens during a year at a farm? Then come spend the next twelve months at this farm. Check out eight action-packed scenes for a bird’s-eye view of spri
Detectives-in-training Milo and Jazz join forces to tackle their first big case--finding out who stole the lucky socks from the high school baseball team's star pitcher.
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.
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.
