Tag Archives: 4-for-3 Books

The Black Stallion Returns

Rating: (29 reviews)
Author: Walter Farley
Publisher: Yearling

Product Description
In this, the second book in the series, the heart-stopping adventures of the Black Stallion continue as Alec discovers that two men are after the Black. One claims to be the Black’s rightful owner and one is trying to kill the beautiful steed. An Arab chieftain proves his [...]

The Littles Go Exploring

Rating: (5 reviews)
Author: John Peterson
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks

Product Description
In their latest adventure, the Littles venture into the land beyond the Dark Wood, an area unknown to small people.

Hands Are Not for Hitting (Board Book) (Best Behavior Series)

Rating: (18 reviews)
Author: Martine Agassi Ph.D.
Publisher: Free Spirit Publishing

Product Description
It’s never too soon for children to learn that violence is never okay, hands can do many good things, and everyone is capable of positive, loving actions.
In this bright, inviting, durable board book, simple words and full-color illustrations teach these important concepts in ways even [...]

Pennsylvania Dutch Night Before Christmas Coloring Book

Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Chet Williamson
Publisher: Pelican Publishing

Product Description
Children will enjoy coloring the pictures while reading this retelling of the Christmas classic by Clement C. Moore. Pennsylvania Dutch Night Before Christmas blends Santa Claus with the traditional Pennsylvania Dutch figure of the Belsnickel, a thin, cantankerous old man who visits children before Christmas and rewards [...]

Christmas Mice!

Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Bethany Roberts
Publisher: Sandpiper

Product Description
The holiday mice are back! It’s Christmas time and the four cheerful mice merrily hang stockings, string popcorn, wrap presents, and sing carols. The little mice are so caught up in their joyful preparations that they almost forget to look out for their old enemy, the cat. Happily, [...]

A Christmas Carol (Pacemaker Classic)

Author: Prescott Hill
Publisher: Fearon

American Popular Piano – Christmas (Level 3) (Girl Zone)

Author: Christopher Norton
Publisher: Novus Via Music Group

Product Description
Each volume, at progressive levels, has lyrical, rhythmic and ensemble arrangements of traditional carols.

Christmas Wishes (Holly Hobbie and Friends)

Rating: (1 reviews)
Author:
Publisher: Little Simon

Product Description
When Holly finds out that a family’s Christmas is in trouble, she sets out to bring the holiday spirit back to their home.
Join Holly Hobbie in this heartwarming story that celebrates the joys of friendship, love and happiness.

Saint Nicholas: The Real Story of the Christmas Legend

Rating: (14 reviews)
Author: Julie Stiegemeyer
Publisher: Concordia Publishing House

Product Description
Many parents and teachers struggle with how to approach the Saint Nicholas/Santa Claus dilemma. Many deal with this by telling children that the legends surrounding Santa Claus are based on a real, hi

The City of Ember (Books of Ember)

Rating: (498 reviews)
Author: Jeanne DuPrau
Publisher: Yearling

Product Description
NOW A MAJOR motion picture starring Bill Murray, Tim Robbins, Martin Landau, Saoirse Ronan, and Harry Treadaway! This tie-in edition of The City of Ember features a movie-art cover and an 8-page photo insert. Jeanne DuPrau’s instant classic tells the story of the great, underground city of Ember, [...]

Punk’d and Skunked (Rotten School, No. 11)

Rating: (4 reviews)
Author: R. L. Stine
Publisher: HarperCollins

Product Description
Bernie Bridges has always dreamed about going to PPP—the exclusive Preppy Prep Prep school. All the kids at PPP are rich, rich, rich! And if there is one thing that Bernie loves it’s money, money, money!
But how will Bernie get to PPP? All he and his buddies [...]

The Black Stallion’s Ghost (Black Stallion)

Rating: (17 reviews)
Author: Walter Farley
Publisher: Yearling

Product Description
While riding the Black in the Everglades one day, Alec meets a man astride a ghostly gray mare. Alec’s fascination with the man turns to fear as he realizes the man is dangerously close to insanity. Soon Alec and the Black are caught up in a deadly chase [...]

Amelia’s Most Unforgettable Embarrassing Moments

Rating: (2 reviews)
Author: Marissa Moss
Publisher: Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books

Product Description
A Note from the Author — Amelia!
“I don’t know what’s worse — sharing a dorm with girls I don’t know or sharing one with a girl I know too well — my sister, Cleo. This school trip is a major lesson in embarrassment!”
– Me, [...]

All About Heat (Rookie Read-About Science)

Author: Lisa Trumbauer
Publisher: Children’s Press(CT)

Product Description
From friendly dolphins to giant pandas, from icebergs and glaciers to energy from the sun, from magnets to solids, liquids, and gases, Rookie Read-About Science is a natural addition to the primary-grade classroom with books that cover every part of the science curricula. Includes: animals, nature, scientific principles, the environment, [...]

You Wouldn’t Want to Live in a Wild West Town! (You Wouldn’t Want to…)

Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Peter Hicks
Publisher: Children’s Press(CT)

Product Description
Looks through the eyes of the fictional marshal of an imaginary town called Dustville to show what life was like on the Great Plains just after the Civil War.

The Black Stallion’s Courage

Rating: (13 reviews)
Author: Walter Farley
Publisher: Yearling

Product Description
When Hopeful Farm burns down, Alec’s dreams for the future go up in smoke. How can he get the money to rebuild? To make matters worse, a strong young colt named Eclipse has taken the racing world by storm, threatening to replace the Black in the hearts of [...]

Spot’s First Christmas board book

Rating: (5 reviews)
Author: Eric Hill
Publisher: Putnam Juvenile

Product Description
Spot and his mom are preparing for Christmas Day by taking the tree home and decorating it, wrapping presents and enjoying the Christmas carolers at their door. With a new, full-color cover, young toddlers will enjoy this classic Spot board book with its sturdy, rounded-edge pages and [...]

Things I See at Christmas

Author: Julie Stiegemeyer
Publisher: Concordia Publishing House

Kingdom Keepers: Disney After Dark

Rating: (7 reviews)
Author: Ridley Pearson
Publisher: Hyperion Book CH

Product Description
Featuring a new paperback cover to match hardcover of Kingdom Keepers II:
 

In this fantastical thriller, five young teens tapped as models for theme park “guides” find themselves pitted against Disney villains and witches that threaten both the future of Walt Disney World and the stability of [...]

Perfect Chemistry

Rating: (89 reviews)
Author: Simone Elkeles
Publisher: Walker Books for Young Readers

Product Description

A fresh, urban twist on the classic tale of star-crossed lovers.
When Brittany Ellis walks into chemistry class on the first day of senior year, she has no clue that her carefully created “perfect” life is about to unravel before her eyes. She’s forced to [...]

The Vampire Diaries: The Awakening (rack)

Rating: (150 reviews)
Author: L. J. Smith
Publisher: HarperCollins

Product Description
A deadly love triangle
Elena: beautiful and popular, the girl who can have any guy she wants.
Stefan: brooding and mysterious, desperately trying to resist his desire for Elena . . . for her own good.
Damon: sexy, dangerous, and driven by an urge for revenge against Stefan, the brother [...]

What Lives in a Shell? (Let’s-Read-and-Find-Out Science 1)

Rating: (7 reviews)
Author: Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld
Publisher: Collins

Product Description
What makes a shell like a house?
A house is a home for you, a nest is a home for a bird, and a cave is a home for a bear. But for some animals a shell is a home. Snails and turtles and crabs and clams all [...]

Wicked Christmas

Author: Nury Vittachi
Publisher: PPP Company Limited

Product Description
Ho ho ho? No, no, no! Global warming melts the North Pole and Santa has to find a new home. But he knows little about the modern world, since he only visits it once a year in the dead of night. Santa s operations room is taken over by [...]

Madeline’s Christmas (Picture Puffins)

Rating: (11 reviews)
Author: Ludwig Bemelmans
Publisher: Viking Juvenile

Product Description
It’s the night before Christmas and everyone is sick in bed. All except brave Madeline, who is up and about and feeling just fine. Taking care of eleven little girls and Miss Clavel is hard work, but Madeline finds help from a magical merchant peddling flying carpets [...]

Eloise Decorates for Christmas (Ready-to-Read Level 1)

Author: Kay Thompson
Publisher: Simon Spotlight

Product Description
It is holiday time. Eloise hopes she will be the one to place the star atop the Christmas tree!

Rotten Ralph’s Rotten Christmas

Rating: (3 reviews)
Author: Jack Gantos
Publisher: Sandpiper

Product Description
Rotten Ralph is not at all nice to the Christmas visitor.

Mickey Mouse Flies the Christmas Mail (Little Golden Book)

Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Annie North Bedford
Publisher: Golden/Disney

Product Description
IT’S CHRISTMAS EVE, and Mickey must use Santa’s sleigh to help deliver the Christmas mail! Originally published in 1956, this classic Little Golden Book features vintage Disney artwork that is sure to delight young readers.

Merry Christmas, Cheeps!

Rating: (2 reviews)
Author: Julie Stiegemeyer
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Children’s Books

Product Description
It’s the day before Christmas, and a family of chicks is busy getting ready. There are snow angels to make, gingerbread cookies to decorate, a tree to trim, and don’t forget to hang the stockings. Then it’s off to bed…and early to rise on Christmas [...]

I Spy Merry Christmas (Scholastic Reader Level 1)

Rating: (2 reviews)
Author: JEAN MARZOLLO
Publisher: Cartwheel Books

Product Description
Ho ho ho! Ring in the season with two festive I Spy readers, bound together with foil on the cover. While waiting for St. Nick, kids can have some jolly fun with rhyming picture riddles by Jean Marzollo and stunning photography from Walter Wick!
This bind-up includes:
SCHOL RDR [...]

Christmas in Noisy Village (Picture Puffins)

Rating: (5 reviews)
Author: Astrid Lindgren
Publisher: Puffin

Product Description
FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY.

The Little Engine That Could and the Snowy, Blowy Christmas

Rating: (2 reviews)
Author: Watty Piper
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap

Product Description
Poor Santa! All eight of his reindeer are sneezing so hard they can’t fly. Who will help him deliver his last present? “I think I can,” says everyone’s favorite Little Blue Engine!

Spot’s First Christmas (color)

Rating: (5 reviews)
Author: Eric Hill
Publisher: Puffin

Product Description
The bestselling puppy is better than ever. Spot’s 25th birthday presents are bold, beautiful color covers that give him a great new look. Enjoy Spot in paperback with full-color covers and traditional Lift-the-Flap features. Have more fun with Spot!

Donkey’s Christmas Song

Rating: (5 reviews)
Author: Nancy Tafuri
Publisher: Scholastic Press

Product Description
A very special baby is born in a stable under a star, surrounded by friendly farmyard animals. The donkey wants to be the first to welcome the baby, but he is too shy. So the doves welcome him with their “Coo-coo,” the cow with her “Moo-moo,” and [...]

The Christmas Story

Rating: (3 reviews)
Author: Tracy Harrast
Publisher: Zonderkidz

Product Description
The story of Christmas comes to life in this delightful, interactive Bible storybook created especially for young, curious minds.

First Christmas, The (Candle Playbook)

Author: Juliet David
Publisher: Candle Books

Product Description
Kids can peer through the peepholes and read the story of this wonderful, interactive book that follows Mary and Joseph to the stable in Bethlehem. Toddlers learn the real story of Christmas as they read and play with this sturdy board book.

What Is the World Made Of? All About Solids, Liquids, and Gases (Let’s-Read-and-Find-Out Science, Stage 2)

Rating: (10 reviews)
Author: Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld
Publisher: Collins

Product Description
Did you ever walk through a wall? Drink a glass of blocks? Have you ever played with a lemonade doll, or put on milk for socks? This latest addition to the Let’s-Read-and-Find-Out Science series introduces the youngest readers to an important science concept: the differences between solids, [...]

Clouds (Let’s-Read-and-Find-Out Science 1)

Rating: (5 reviews)
Author: Anne Rockwell
Publisher: Collins

Product Description
Do you ever wake up and wonder what the weather will be? Instead of turning on the TV to find out, you can just look out your window at the clouds. How do you know what type of clouds can forecast a change of weather? Read and find [...]

Manny’s Motorcycle Adventure (Handy Manny)

Rating: (3 reviews)
Author: Susan Amerikaner
Publisher: Disney Press

Product Description

An action-packed story based on the “Motorcycle Adventure” episode premiering on Disney Channel’s Family Movie Night.

Manny and the tools are headed to Manny’s family reunion on their motorcycle, when Pat, Squeeze and Flicker wind up separated from them. Seems Pat has gone in search of his own [...]

The Potty Train

Rating: (26 reviews)
Author: David Hochman
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing

Product Description
The Potty Train is coming! All aboard!
Time to say good-bye to diapers and take the journey to Underpants Station.
Are you ready? Let’s chug away on the Potty Train!

Huevos verdes con jamón

Rating: (31 reviews)
Author: Dr. Seuss
Publisher: Lectorum Publications

Product Description
Sam-I-Am mounts a determined campaign to convince another Seuss character to eat a plate of green eggs and ham. “Limited vocabulary but unlimited exuberance of illustration”.–School Library Journal. Full color.

A Christmas Prayer (Christmas Books)

Rating: (3 reviews)
Author: Rian B. Anderson
Publisher: Covenant Communications

Product Description
On Christmas Eve in 1881, fifteen-year-old Matt discovers the joy of giving when his father uses money intended for buying him a rifle to help a needy widow.

Christmas Trucks (Tonka Power Reading)

Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Scholastic Inc.
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Product Description
All about the trucks that work hard at the Christmas tree farm! Spot art throughout the text illustrates key words to help young readers.

Spider-Man 3: Meet the Heroes and Villains (I Can Read Book 2)

Rating: (5 reviews)
Author: Harry Lime
Publisher: HarperCollins

Product Description
Peter Parker is lucky to have good friends in his life. And they are lucky to be friends with a hero like Spider-Man. As long as there are villains out there, the world will always need its heroes.

I Like You

Rating: (61 reviews)
Author: Sandol Stoddard
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children

Product Description
A tiny book that expresses the true meaning of friendship. Amazon.com Review
“Here is the book that Romeo would have given Juliet; Charlie Brown would have given Snoopy; and you can give to some very special friend” proclaims the back cover of this small, whimsical [...]

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Rating: (184 reviews)
Author: Sherman Alexie
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Product Description
Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the rez to attend an all-white farm town high school where [...]

The Little Engine That Could mini

Rating: (80 reviews)
Author: Watty Piper
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap

Product Description
“A good example of pioneer feminist lore, with girl engine as ‘hero’”.–Publishers Weekly. The classic story of optimistic thinking that has delighted generations of children. Full-color illustrations. Amazon.com Review
The unknowing progenitor of a whole generation of self-help books, Wally Piper’s The Little Engine That Could is [...]

Fisher-Price Little People Worlds of Adventure: A Look Inside Book

Rating: (5 reviews)
Author: Reader’s Digest
Publisher: Reader’s Digest

Product Description
This unique Fisher-Price book helps kids find out what’s inside a world of adventure with the turn of large die-cut pages throughout.  Colorful large board book reveals what is inside five different exciting places.  Dozens of labels teach over 250 words.
The Fisher-Price gang become pirates, perform in [...]

Epic Battles (DK READERS)

Rating: (3 reviews)
Author: Simon Beecroft
Publisher: DK CHILDREN

Product Description
More thrilling Star Wars episodes for young readers! Kids can continue their discovery of the fantastic Jedi knights, rogue rebels, heroic allies, and evil Sith lords that were loved by their parents’ generation, while strengthening their reading skills at the same time.
Explore the intergalactic star wars. Learn [...]

Time For Kids: Thomas Edison: A Brilliant Inventor

Rating: (2 reviews)
Author: Editors Of Time For Kids
Publisher: HarperCollins

Product Description
A fast-paced biography of Thomas Edison, the scientist who perfected the light bulb and propelled America into the twentieth century.

Criss Cross

Rating: (79 reviews)
Author: Lynne Rae Perkins
Publisher: Greenwillow Books

Product Description
She wished something would happen.
Something good. To her. Checking her wish for loopholes, she found one. Hoping it wasn’t too late, she thought the word soon.
Meanwhile, in another part of town, he felt as if the world was opening. Life was rearranging itself; bulging in places, [...]