Amber Brown is excited to be starting second grade and a little nervous. But on the way to school with her best friend, Justin, Amber decides she's ready for whatever happens. And second grade had better be ready for Amber Brown!

Now in print for more than sixty years, this classic story of "the cutest, silliest tugboat you ever saw" continues to delight children around the world. This 8 x 8 edition features watercolor illustrations done in the style of the late Hardie Gramatky. Card catalog de*ion Little Toot the tugboat conquers his fear of rough seas when he single-handedly rescues an ocean liner during a storm.

The little blue engine comes to the rescue again!More adventures await the famous little engine,who thought she could and did make it over the mountain.In this exciting story she uses her determination and bravery to help out her very best friend,the toy clown.

Though Kim Okawa studies all the time, she can never please her father He expects her to excel in all her classes and thinks that the surfing crowd at Balboa High is a bad influence on her When Kim 's parents catch her coming back from a secret meeting with her boyfriend, George, her father lays down the law:Kim must transfer from Balboa to a nearby private school known for its accelerated programs.Kim 's only a high-school junior, but suddenly life couldn't be worse. George has just broken up with her, and now she's faced with leaving her school and all the people she cares about.Her friends decide that what Kim needs is a new love interest-- Donna Thurman 's older brother, Eric.As if romance could cheer her up at a time like this!But then, on a trip to Mexico with the gang, an unexpected turn of events makes Kim realize that things aren't quite as bad as they seem

Three friends relax after their picnic lunch by each telling his or her best story.——This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Discovering a huge underwater crater while diving, Jesse is dragged away by a human-hating giant eel, and when their whale friend, Willy

Wiglaf ’s latest assignment for the DSA school paper is to write an in-depth article about the headmaster: Who is the real Mordred de Marvelous? Wiglaf, with help from his buddy Angus, decides the best way to learn all about the headmaster is to follow him around school for a day. But when the boys overhear Mordred and his scout, Yorick, whispering about "twins," "kidnapped!" and "gold," they decide to investigate and end up getting much, MUCH more than a newspaper story.

Starred Review. Grade 4-8–Grandits combines technical brilliance and goofy good humor to provide an accessible, fun-filled collection of poems, dramatically brought to life through a brilliant book design. The eye-catching title selection, an account of a science experiment gone astray, appears on the front cover and its messy aftermath, a squashed tomato, winds up on the back. Simple drawings, varied typefaces, unusual arrangements of text, and different colors are used to call attention to the words. Grandits crafts an 11-year-old protagonist, Robert, whose perspective throughout is authentically adolescent. He is both immature and intelligent, and delights in all things gross as can be seen in such offerings as "The Autobiography of Murray the Fart," "Spew Machine," and "Sick Day." "TyrannosaurBus Rex" features a predatory cartoon school bus munching its way along its route: "More children. More sacrifices./Yum." This book doesn't reach the masterful collaboration of Paul B. Janeczko and Chris Raschka's

We are in tbe lnidst of an energy crisis. We're running out of heating oil and gasoline, tearing up our wilderness with hydro dams and damaging our heahh with nuclear power.And out production of energy may be the biggest cause of pollution in the world today. In The Heat Is On you'll find out where our energy comes from and why it is creating a problem. But you'll also discover that there are bright spots from the many plans to develop alternative clean energy sources, to the many ways we can all help, by using energy more thoughtfully and efficiently.

Inspired by a passage from Henry David Thoreau’s Walden, the wonderfully appealing Henry Hikes to Fitchburg follows two friends who have very different approaches to life. When the two agree to meet one evening in Fitchburg, which is thirty miles away, each decides to get there in his own way, and the two have surprisingly different days.

An English boy, shipwrecked, hungry, and lost, finds his way into the court of Constantine where he is interpreted as a symbol of good luck and, as such, ordered to be kept always near the king. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Packed with movie stills, cross-sections, and character details, this guide offers an up-close look at the world of Oakey Oaks and all of the colorful characters who live there.

A diary cum guide to Green projects throughout the year.

You'll find a jungle of beasts prowling through this fascinating collection of animal poems. There are tigers, baboons, yaks, unicorns and even a duck-billed platypus in a menagerie of poems by a whole range of poets, including Ted Hughes, Hilaire Belloc, T S Eliot, Edward Lear and Spike Milligan.

From "Who sits where in an orchestra?" to "Why do flutes have holes?" I Wonder Why Mice Are Musical and Other Questions About Music answers all sorts of questions that children love to ask about composers, instruments, singing, and dancing.

"Epitaph School is the biggest in the world," said the Headmaster proudly, rubbing his hands together. "Not even I know how big it is." Endill Swift is rudely plucked from his home at Gibbet Hall and carried by basket over a deep and murky ravine patrolled by a man-eating eel to this detestable establishment. In Nettles dormitory he dreams only of escape. Within the walls of this island fortress lurks a motley crew of teachers - Mr Fractor, Mr Litmus, Mr Jotter (no prizes for guessing what they teach) and Matron, who tours the corridors on a motorbike. Take a wrong turning and you might be.lost for years. But the Headmaster takes the prize for the biggestcrackpot of all. Endill and his friend Mould work secretly on their giant catapult. Surely, one day, escape must be possible...?This original and hilarious book has received much praise, especially from children, who selected it for the Federation of Children's Book Group's 'The Pick of the Year':"Breathtaking stuff", said The Guardian. To dat

In this lively book, The Missing Cat, you will meet six-year-old Nicholas and his family, hot on the trail of Princess, the beloved family cat, who has disappeared from her basket. As you read, you'll begin to learn Italian, including basic words and phrases, greeting words, numbers, days of the week, colors, foods, and more. Read to find out the happy surprise in store for Nicholas and his family. See how much fun learning a new language can be!

Ages 4-8. In this world record book of natural history, Jenkins identifies and describes places such as the planet's deepest lake, highest mountain, most active volcano, the most extreme tides, and the places designated the hottest, the coldest, the wettest, the driest, and the windiest on Earth. Each spread features a distinctive collage of cut-and-torn papers, which vary in texture and hue. Silhouetted forms provide dramatic focal points in the compositions. Each spread includes a couple of lines of text, supplemented with more information in smaller type and inset maps and diagrams that help the reader visualize just how high, deep, or wet the subject is in comparison with others of its kind. Highly effective visual education for the classroom or for young browsers intrigued by superlatives. Carolyn Phelan --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Dr. Robert Mason, the current recipient of the National Science Foundation"s Young Investigator Award, has been studying a mysterious phenomenon for over fifteen years: the reemergence of tens of thousands of red-sided garter snakes — the world"s largest concentration of snakes — after a winter spent in a state of suspended animation in subterranean caverns. This gathering each spring in the forests of Manitoba, Canada, is one of the most extraordinary events of the natural world and is the subject of study for Dr. Mason, a.k.a. the Snake Scientist.