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 and the Sorcerer’s Stone，he is in terrible danger indeed。As if it’s not bad enough that after a long summer with the horrid Dursleys he is thwarted in his attempts to hop the train to the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry to begin his second year。But when his only transportation option is a magical flying car，it is just his luck to crash into a valuable （but clearly vexed） Whomping Willow。Still，all this seems like a day in the park compared to what happens that fall within the haunted halls of Hogwarts。 Chilling，malevolent voices whisper from the walls only to Harry， and it seems certain that his classmate Draco Malfoy is out to get him。 Soon it’s not just Harry who is worried about surviva
Wendell Flutz’s room isn’t a mess. It’s a total pigsty. But Wendell’s mother can’t get him to clean it up.Wendell doesn’t think the mess is so awful. In fact, he doesn’t even mind it when one day he discovers a real pig sitting on his bed!
Book De*ion Train, Boats and Plants -- Pop-Up Book In this book your children can find many friendly characters and can read the traditional rhyming text with funnly illustrations.
Born underground in a warm den, a baby wolf soon learns how to howl, how to hunt, and how to live with her wolf pack. And with this Level 2 kids can learn, too--all about a baby wolf! Mary Batten lives in Los Angeles, CA. Jo Ellen McAllister Stammen lives in Camden, ME.
How do fish breathe underwater? Do all birds fly? Why do some animals have fur? Children will learn the answers to these and other questions as they explore, with Pooh, the worlds of mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians, sea creatures, and insects and spiders! The 30 beautifully illustrated Discovery Cards in this set provide a unique educational experience, featuring stunning real-life images and fascinating facts for curious young minds.
Arthur doesn't realize how precious his pesky little sister can be until the day he rushes off to school to avoid her. This time, it's D.W. who gives Arthur the nicest gift and surprise.
After their defeat of the Morbuzakh and the shape-shifting Krahka, the Toa Metru expect to be hailed as heroes. Instead, they are betrayed by someone they thought they could trust. Three of the Toa are arrested. In prison, they meet a mysterious stranger who helps them to escape--and to learn more about their new powers. The remaining Toa are forced to flee through the city, avoiding security forces and the Dark Hunters who try to capture them. Can the Toa reunite and defeat their new enemy? Or has the their luck finally run out?
Read Their words. Hear TheLr voices. These are some of the most amazing poems ever written, touching the heart, challenging the mind, and conjuring wor of experience and imagination. Included are poems by: Emily Dickinson Edgar Allan Poe William Shakespeare Sylvia Plath Walt Whitman Pablo Neruda Lucille Clifton Elizabeth Barrett/Browning Gwendolyn Brooks Wallace Stevens Marianne Moore Percy Bysshe Shelley …and many more. For each Classics Edition published, Scholastic will make a donation to a literary or children's charity.
Ready to Read Preschool-Kindergarten,Does you child know the alphabet?Is your child eager to begin reading?Step 1 Is the perfect first step! Big Type and Easy words,Rhyme and Rhythm,Picture Clues
Will is new to Sheffield Institute, but quickly befriends Irma, Taranee, Cornelia, and Hay Lin, four girls with whom Will learns to share her mysterious supernatural abilities. Together they discover that they need to protect Earth from the evil of Metamoor. But things go seriously wrong for the girls at the school's Halloween dance when Metamoor henchmen crash the party and attempt to capture them. The girls have to command their newly discovered powers in their first battle against evil. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
Look! Look! The Cat wants to cook! Told with simple rhymes and rhythms, this jaunty illustrated tale gives very young readers a taste of the Cat in the Hat’s flamboyant cooking skills as he slaps on a Chef’s hat and whips up purple cupcakes using some truly odd ingredients! A cat-terrific spin-off based on Dr. Seuss’ The Cat in the Hat movie.
TO EAT, OR NOT TO EAT? That's a stupid question! The fat cat was born to binge, and while some might call it gluttony, Garfield prefers to think of it as eating proactively. Besides, someone needs to keep the surplus donut population under control. In this latest collection of comics, the heavyweight of humor tips the scales with a veritable metric ton of laughs.
Sister Bear has made it to the school spelling bee! Papa Bear is very proud and excited to help her practice . . . and practice . . . and practice. . . . But will all of this p-r-a-c-t-i-c-e take all of the f-u-n out of spelling for Sister?
Birthdays，Halloween，Valentine's DaLJ，Christmas。parties—make cards for gour friends and fomilg!FoIlow the simple step。btj．step pictu res and photog raphs to create over 30 fabulous cards each graded to show how eastj theg are to make．With over 250 stickers，press．OUC templates and speciaI messages to cop9，gou can make cards that evergone wilIIave to receive．
Build word power with these 24 ready-to-reproduce, 3-page lessons. Each lesson includes research-based activities that build on students' prior knowledge and gives them multiple encounters with the new words so they really remember them. Lesson topics include prefixes, suffixes, Latin and Greek roots, homophones, antonyms, synonyms, and lots more Watch readinq skills and test scores soar!
Words and images combine on each page of this classic picturebook to create an introduction to familiar words that children andtheir parents will want to return to again and again. With a wealthof detail, Jay has created a series of pictures where elementscleverly reappear from spread to spread.
Ginger Wald and her identical twin brothers, Nat and Pat, are lost in the woods. No problem. After all, Ginger did go to that stupid nature camp.Still, there's something odd about this part of the woods. The grass is yellow. The bushes are purple. And the trees are like skyscrapers.Then Ginger and her brothers meet the beasts. They're big blue furry creatures. And they want to play a game. The winners get to live. The losers get eaten. . . .
A completely brilliant new Charlie and Lola story, based onthe hit BBC TV series, in a fantastic new board book format.
Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood. I never asked to be the son of a Greek god. I was just a normal kid, going to school, playing basketball, skateboarding. The usual. Until I accidentally vaporized my maths teacher. That's when things started really going wrong. Now I spend my time fighting with swords, battling monsters with my friends and generally trying to stay alive. This is the one where Zeus, God of the Sky, thinks I've stolen his lightning bolt - and making Zeus angry is a very bad idea...
Charming story of Peter Rabbit and his bride as they start their new life together in the Old Briar-Patch. Set in large, easy-to-read type, enhanced with 8 new illustrations. Something is detlnltely wrong with peter rabbit...he has on appetite！ Deciding he is terribly lonely, Peter sets off to visitsome friends in the Old Pasture but instead finds himselfnarrowly escaping the clutches of Hooty Owl, experiencing anasty encounter with Jed Thumper（a big gray rabbit）andeventually staring right into the soft, gentle eyes of MissFuzzytail. Before you know it, Peter has a new bride！ Children will love sharing the adventures of Mr. and Mrs. PeterRabbit as they start a new--and often precarious--life togetherin the Dear Old Briar-Patch. As they enjoy the story, youngstersabsorb gentle lessons about nature, wildlife and simple humanvirtues. Eight charming new illustrations, based on the originalsby Harrison Cady, enhance this delightful tale, newly reprintedin large, easy-to-read type.
Engrossing tale of young Sara Crewe, whose pleasant days at an English boarding school end abruptly when her father dies, leaving her penniless and at the mercy of a vindictive headmistress. A delightful fairy-tale ending makes this riches-to-rags-to-riches tale one that will captivate romantics of all ages. Abridged. Throughout her long and SUCQeSSfUl career．Frances HodgsonBurnett（1849—1924）had a reputation for delighting readers withstories about people whose desperate situations always seemedto improve by the last chapter．This charming piece of fiction，first published nearly a century ago--and more recently the basisof an acclaimed motion picture--follows that pattern． Its young heroine，Sara Crewe，falls upon hard times at anEnglish boarding school when her father suddenly dies．Leftpenniless and at the mercy of a vindictive headmistress，Saramanages--despite a multitude of adversities--to maintain heroptimistic outlook and usual goodness，qualities that do not gounnoticed by a mys
