Rating: (53 reviews)
Author: Dr Seuss
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Product Description
Started by Seuss, finished by Prelutsky, and splendiferously illustrated by
Lane Smith, this is the children’s book publishing event of the year! Big–56
pages–and bursting with energy, here is a joyous ode to individuality,
starring an unsinkable teacher named Miss Bonkers and quirky little
Diffendoofer School, which must [...]
Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Dan Gutman
Publisher: HarperCollins
Product Description
The weirdness never stops!
A.J. has to go see Miss Laney, the speech teacher, which makes no sense at all because he already knows how to talk. Miss Laney has him say weird tongue twisters and forces him to be the lead in the third-grade play, Romeo & Juliet. [...]
Rating: (2689 reviews)
Author: J. K. Rowling
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
Product Description
In one of the most hotly anticipated sequels in memory, J.K. Rowling takes up where she left with Harry’s second year at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Old friends and new torments abound, including a spirit named Moaning Myrtle who haunts the girl’s bathroom, [...]
Rating: (2 reviews)
Author: Suzy Kline
Publisher: Puffin
Product Description
It’s Christmastime, but with Miss Mackle in the hospital, no one feels much like celebrating. Maybe Harry can think of a way to cheer up Miss Mackle and put the holiday spirit back in Room 2B.
Rating: (8 reviews)
Author: Jane O’connor
Publisher: HarperCollins
Product Description
Nancy and her partner for the talent show are very different. They don’t have any of the same talents. How will they ever come up with an act?
Rating: (26 reviews)
Author: Francine Pascal
Publisher: Sweet Valley
Product Description
Given a pair of antique dolls by their grandparents, Jessica and Elizabeth learn that the dolls are a family legacy from a past generation of twins and that they have magical powers.
Rating: (3 reviews)
Author: Cecily von Ziegesar
Publisher: Poppy
Product Description
The ninth engrossing novel in the #1 bestselling It Girl series. Popular Gossip Girl character Jenny Humphrey never goes looking for trouble; but trouble always seems to find her. What Waverly Academy mischief will Jenny, Tinsley, and Callie stir up now?
It’s January, and a new semester at [...]
Rating: (8 reviews)
Author: Jane O’connor
Publisher: HarperCollins
Product Description
Nancy is all set to wear something special for Pajama Day at school. But when Bree and Clara show up in matching outfits, Nancy feels left out. Will this Pajama Day be as fun as she thought?
Author: Nancy Krulik
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
Product Description Winter Break is approaching, and everyone at Joyce Kilmer Middle School is in the holiday spirit. Everyone except the Pops, that is! Jenny can’t wait for the holidays, but her good mood quickly evaporates when she picks Dana as her “Secret Snowflake” in English class and finds out that [...]
Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Stephenie Meyer
Publisher: Alfaguara
Product Description
Twilight tempted the imagination. New Moon made readers thirsty for more. Eclipse turned the saga into a worldwide phenomenon. And now, the book that everyone has been waiting for… Breaking Dawn, the final book in the #1 bestselling Twilight Saga, will take your breath away. Description in Spanish: [...]
Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Jane O’Connor
Publisher: HarperTrophy
Product Description
Nancy absolutely adores stars. She loves how they sparkle in the sky, and she can even name the constellations. Nancy can hardly wait for her class visit to the planetarium!
Young readers will delight in this newest addition to the Fancy Nancy I Can Read series, sharing in Nancy’s [...]
Rating: (38 reviews)
Author: Julie Danneberg
Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing
Product Description
First Day Jitters
Rating: (57 reviews)
Author: Jon Scieszka
Publisher: Viking Juvenile
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Did you ever wake up to one of those days where everything is a problem? You have 10 things to do, but only 30 minutes till the bus leaves. Is there enough time? You have 3 shirts and 2 pairs of pants — can you make 1 good [...]
Rating: (6 reviews)
Author: Katie Davis
Publisher: Voyager Books
Product Description
Dexter already knows everything there is to know about kindergarten. His big sister, Jessie, told him all about it. So Dexter is not scared. Not even a little bit. But his stuffed dog, Rufus, is scared. Actually, he’s terrified. But Dexter–er, Rufus–has nothing to fear: As he’ll [...]
Rating: (143 reviews)
Author: Louise Fitzhugh
Publisher: Yearling
Amazon.com
Ages 8-12. Thirty-two years before it was made into a movie, Harriet the Spy was a groundbreaking book: its unflinchingly honest portrayal of childhood problems and emotions changed children’s literature forever. Happily, it has neither dated nor become obsolete and remains one of the best children’s novels ever written. [...]
Rating: (2 reviews)
Author: Richard Scarry
Publisher: Sterling
Product Description
Great Big Schoolhouse is lovingly remembered by generations of American children whose first day at school was undoubtedly made easier by Scarry’s warm, friendly, and comforting classroom. Huckle’s life changes forever as he joins his classmates on the school bus; meets Miss Honey, his sympathetic teacher; and learns [...]
Rating: (222 reviews)
Author: Jack Gantos
Publisher: HarperTrophy
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Joey Pigza has problems. Big problems. He was emotionally abused by his grandmother. He has never met his dad. He can’t get along in his elementary school classroom because of his mood swings and his “dud meds.” We gradually see that Joey must have Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), which [...]
Rating: (13 reviews)
Author: Jeff Brown
Publisher: HarperTrophy
Product Description
Stanley Lambchop is just a normal boy, with a normal younger brother named Arthur, and two normal parents. That is, until a bulletin board falls on him during the night and flattens him to half an inch thick! From this point on, Stanley will never again be just [...]
Rating: (5 reviews)
Author: Valerie Tripp
Publisher: American Girl
Rating: (25 reviews)
Author: Laura Bush, Jenna Bush
Publisher: HarperCollins
Product Description
Tyrone rules the school!
He’s king of the monkey bars, a math machine, and a science whiz.
The only thing he doesn’t like about school is reading. Books are so boring! But when strange visitors start dropping by the classroom for story hour, Tyrone discovers there’s more to [...]
Rating: (2 reviews)
Author: Frances O’Roark Dowell
Publisher: Aladdin
Product Description
Here’s what you need to know about Phineas L. MacGuire, boy-scientistextraordinaire, aka Mac:
1. He’s allergic to purple, telephone calls, and girls, and can proveit.
2. He’s probably the world’s expert on mold, including which has thehighest stink potential.
3. He does not have a best friend. He does, however, [...]
Rating: (204 reviews)
Author: Kate Dicamillo
Publisher: Candlewick
Product Description
Once, in a house on Egypt Street, there lived a china rabbit named Edward Tulane. The rabbit was very pleased with himself, and for good reason: he was owned by a girl named Abilene, who adored him completely. And then, one day, he was lost. . . .
Kate [...]
Rating: (138 reviews)
Author: Thomas Rockwell
Publisher: Yearling
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How to Eat Fried Worms has happily repulsed children since its original publication in 1973. Now youngsters can experience this classic story in a whole new yucky way, by listening to it on audiocassette. Narrator Jay O. Sanders gives extra kick and vitality to this already lively yarn. He [...]
Rating: (283 reviews)
Author: E. L. Konigsburg
Publisher: Aladdin
Amazon.com
A powerhouse sixth-grade Academic Bowl team from Epiphany Middle School; the art of calligraphy; the retirees of Century Village, Florida; a genius dog named Ginger; and a holiday production of “Annie” all figure heavily in the latest book by E. L. Konigsburg, who has produced a Newbery Medal-winning [...]
Rating: (6 reviews)
Author:
Publisher: HarperFestival
Product Description
Papa Bear and the cubs are having some trouble with chores –– they don’t want to do them! When they decide to take a break from cleaning, Mama Bear plays along. But what will happen when the mess builds up . . . and up . . . and up?
Ages [...]
Rating: (3279 reviews)
Author: Louis Sachar
Publisher: Yearling
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“If you take a bad boy and make him dig a hole every day in the hot sun, it will turn him into a good boy.” Such is the reigning philosophy at Camp Green Lake, a juvenile detention facility where there is no lake, and there are no happy [...]
Rating: (2599 reviews)
Author: J.K. Rowling
Publisher: Scholastic
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For most children, summer vacation is something to look forward to. But not for our 13-year-old hero, who’s forced to spend his summers with an aunt, uncle, and cousin who detest him. The third book in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series catapults into action when the young wizard “accidentally” [...]
Author:
Publisher: Poppy
Product Description
Alicia takes on Mission Spalfa: Spanish Alpha! Back in Spain to visit her relatives, Alicia discovers that Spain’s newest pop sensation ¡Ignacio! is searching for a true Spanish beauty to star in his new hit-single video. She can’t believe her luck! If Alicia is cast as a true Spanish beauty, Massie will never [...]
Rating: (24 reviews)
Author: Sarah Dessen
Publisher: Viking Juvenile
Product Description
Ruby, where is your mother?
Ruby knows that the game is up. For the past few months, shes been on her own in the yellow house, managing somehow, knowing that her mother will probably never return.
Thats how she comes to live with Cora, the sister she hasnt seen [...]
Rating: (7 reviews)
Author: Mike Lupica
Publisher: Philomel
Book Description
For Hutch, shortstop has always been home. It’s where his father once played professionally, before injuries relegated him to watching games on TV instead of playing them. And it’s where Hutch himself has always played and starred. Until now. The arrival of Darryl “D-Will” Williams, the top shortstop [...]
Rating: (635 reviews)
Author: Orson Scott Card
Publisher: Starscape
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Ender’s Shadow is being dubbed as a parallel novel to Orson Scott Card’s Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Ender’s Game. By “parallel,” Card means that Shadow begins and ends at roughly the same time as Game, and it chronicles many of the same events. In fact, the two books [...]
Rating: (2649 reviews)
Author: J.K. Rowling
Publisher: Arthur A. Levine Books
Amazon.com
It’s hard to fall in love with an earnest, appealing young hero like Harry Potter and then to watch helplessly as he steps into terrible danger! And in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, the much anticipated sequel to the award-winning Harry Potter [...]
