It’s a bone-afide mystery at Dink’s school. Some sneaky soul has stolen the skeleton from the nurse's office! The principal promises free aquarium tickets to the savvy sleuths who can track down poor Mr. Bones. Soon mysterious clues are showing up all over the school. It’s up to Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose to follow the clues and put those old bones to rest.
R is for Racehorse . . . And they’re off! Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose are excited to see Uncle Warren's new racehorse, Whirlaway, in action. But the night before the big race, the horse disappears! He shows up the next day, just in time to lose the race. Why is Whirlaway suddenly so slow? Can the kids figure it out–or is Whirlaway out of the winner’s circle for good? A to Z Mysteries are fast-paced, collectible mysteries for beginning chapter book readers!
Butterflies are all around us. It's hard to believe thesemajestic insects with impressive wingspans and beautifully coloredand patterned wings were once creepy crawly caterpillars. How inthe world does this transformation happen? This level 1 Readergives kids an up-close look at exactly how a caterpillar becomes abutterfly. With bonus information including different types ofbutterflies and poisonous caterpillars, this reader is one of akind. This high-interest, educationally vetted series of beginningreaders features the magnificent images of National Geographic,accompanied by texts written by experienced, skilled children'sbook authors. The inside back cover of the paperback edition is an interactivefeature based upon the book. Level 1 books reinforce the content ofthe book with a kinesthetic learning activity. In Level 2 booksreaders complete a Cloze letter, or fun fill-in, with vocabularywords.
Sun, sand--and sunken treasure? That's what Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose discover when they go on vacation to Florida. An old ship has been found off the coast, and it's full of gold! Two divers are collecting donations to bring up the loot. They're promising to share whatever they find, but is this too good to be true? It's up to Dink and his friends to get to the bottom of it! A brand-new map of the Florida coast and fun black-and-white drawings make The Goose's Gold a must for kids who love mysteries!
Meet Tyrone the Tyrannosaurus, Green Lawn's newest-and biggest!-visitor. The kids' old friend Jud Wheat is in town, and he's raising funds for a dinosaur museum by taking the T. rex on tour. But after the show in Green Lawn, all Jud's money disappears! Can Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose track down the cash and rescue Jud from this prehistoric pickle? 作者简介： Ron Roy is the author of more than thirty-five books for children, including A Thousand Pails of Water, Where's Buddy?, and the award-winning Whose Hat Is That? When he's not writing a thrilling new story for the A to Z Mysteries series, Ron spends time traveling all over the country and restoring his old Connecticut farmhouse.
Second grade is turning out great. But suddenly, there's aproblem: a new rule. Ms. Light says desks have to be kept clean.Amber's desk is never clean. What will she do?
Book De*ion The world's funniest kindergartner is back, in her 15thbook! It's almost the end of the school year, and Room Nine is taking afield trip to a farm! There's lots of fun farm stuff there. Like areal actual barn. And a real actual farmer. There's even real aliveanimals you can pet! Only, where's the gift shop? That's what JunieB. Jones would like to know. Surely no one would want Junie B. togo home empty-handed. . . .
Book De*ion Jack and Annie are off in search of another story in jeopardy,this time at a monastery in ancient Ireland. Trouble arrives whenVikings land, and Jack and Annie must find a way to escape! Card catalog de*ion Their magic tree house takes Jack and Annie back to a monasteryin medieval Ireland, where they try to retrieve a lost book whilebeing menaced by Viking raiders. About Magic Tree House series Magic Tree House is a book series for young children by Mary PopeOsborne. The series features two children, the bookworm Jack andhis adventurous and imaginative younger sister Annie, who travel tohistorical places using a magic tree house. The magic tree housebelongs to Morgan Le Fay who, in the series, is King Arthur'ssister and a librarian. She uses the magic tree house to gatherbooks from time and space. Jack and Annie travel by opening a book, pointing at a picture ofa place and then wishing that they could go there. The magic treehouse then spins around and ma
In 1838, settlers moving west forced the great Cherokee Nation, and their chief John Ross, to leave their home land and travel 1,200 miles to Oklahoma. An epic story of friendship, war, hope, and betrayal.
What was it like to wear armor? What was the food like in castles? This book explores what life was really like in medieval times.
Merlin sends Jack and Annie on a mysterious mission to Paris, France, over a hundred years ago. There they must find four magicians and give them an urgent message from Merlin himself. When Jack and Annie land in Paris, they make their way to the 1889 World's Fair. Below the Eiffel Tower, built especially for the fair, there are thousands of exhibits from all over the world. But how will Jack and Annie find the magicians in the crowds of people? And who are the magicians anyway? Jack and Annie are about to find out in another adventure filled with history, magic, and amazing surprises! In Night of the New Magicians, Mary Pope Osborne brings to life an amazing time in history that gave birth to many startling inventions and scientific discoveries that would change the world forever. The paperback edition boasts all-new backmatter full of activities!
In the tradition of The Adventures of Peter Rabbit, this is a "garden tale" of farmer versus vermin, or vice versa. The farmers in this case are a vaguely criminal team of three stooges: "Boggis and Bunce and Bean / One fat, one short, one lean. / These horrible crooks / So different in looks / Were nonetheless equally mean." Whatever their prowess as poultry farmers, within these pages their sole objective is the extermination of our hero--the noble, the clever, the Fantastic Mr. Fox. Our loyalties are defined from the start; after all, how could you cheer for a man named Bunce who eats his doughnuts stuffed with mashed goose livers? As one might expect, the farmers in this story come out smelling like ... well, what farmers occasionally do smell like. This early Roald Dahl adventure is great for reading aloud to three- to seven-year-olds, who will be delighted to hear that Mr. Fox keeps his family one step ahead of the obsessed farmers. When they try to dig him out, he digs faster; when they lay siege to hi
HOW DO PENGUINS survive in frigid conditions? What happens at a research station in Antarctica? How long can an emperor penguin go without food? What other creatures live in the Antarctic? Find out the answers to these questions and more in the Magic Tree House Research Guide: Penguins and Antarctica.
Illustrated in black-and-white. Jack and Annie are whisked forty yearsforward in time and land at an international space station on the moon.There they don space suits and go exploring the lunar surface in search of thefourth object needed to free the enchantress Morgan le Fay from a powerfulspell.
W is for Wolf. . . . Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose are thrilled to visit Wallis Wallace at her new cabin in the Maine wilderness. On their very first day, they glimpse a white wolf and her babies on a cliff. But soon after the kids spy the wolf family, the pups are wolf-napped! Can Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose sniff out the culprits before the white wolf starts suspecting them? "An appealing combination of intrigue, ingenuity, and good fun. A great recreational choice for newly independent readers." --School Library Journal
当布兰妮以为自己的噩梦已经结束的时候，她受邀前往游乐园。 令布兰妮没有想到的是，这个游乐园似乎透着丝丝的诡异，和它的表面截然不同，但和它的名字一致——惊恐乐园，让人感觉非常不自在。 布兰妮发现自己被困在了这个惊恐乐园中。 更糟糕的是，有越来越多和她一样的孩子不断来到这个恐怖乐园中。 布兰妮感觉到似乎有人或者说是有东西在不断召唤大家来到这里。 它究竟是什么？布兰妮必须尽快找出来，不然他们可能永远被困在这个地球上恐怖的地方了…… 惊险刺激的故事情节，丝丝恐怖在字里行间里渗透出来，令人感觉头皮发麻，背脊发凉的同时却依然不愿停下来。
Lis for Lucky. . . . And that's just how Lucky O'Leary feels when the lottery ticket his grandfather sends him for Christmas turns out to be a million-dollar winner! But before Lucky can cash it in, someone sneaks into his house and steals it. Now it's up to Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose to track down the thief and return the ticket . . . before Lucky loses out!
