What fun is a fair with no tickets? River Heights Elementary is throwing a fall festival! It promises to be full of fun games, great food, and amazing amusement park rides — even a roller coaster! All of the kids in River Heights, including Nancy, George, and Bess, are very excited and have been working […]
Snowy situation! Nancy, George, and Bess are on a ski trip! They are having tons of fun, and Bess proves a natural for the slopes. She even wins a special award! But when the ski supply room is suddenly trashed, all eyes turn to Bess. It looks like shes a suspect this time around. Nancy […]
Bess and George are fighting – and Nancys caught in the middle! Its Valentines Day, but things are not all hearts and flowers for Nancy!While she and her best friends, Bess and George, are making their own stuffedanimals at Farmer Frans Barnyard Buddies, someone slips a mean valentineinto Bess animals pocket. Whats worse than a […]
Back-to-school shopping spree! The Clue Crew is headed to the mall! They are ready to shop till they drop for new school supplies. First stop: the Pencil Box for glittery notebooks. But right away it looks like the girls have a back-to-school mystery on their hands. Money is missing from the Pencil Boxs cash register, […]
River Heights Elementary School is having a Thanksgiving pageant, and Nancy, Bess, and George want to dress up as Native Americans! But when the town starts preparing for Thanksgiving dinner, the girls end up smelling a mystery instead of turkey. As Thanksgiving food around town starts to disappear, the Clue Crew realizes that someone is […]
At 7 and a half, with working parents and a sister at “a difficult age,” Ramona Quimby tries hard to do her part to keep family peace. Usually, however, she ends up behind every uproarious incident in the house. Whether shes dying herself blue, watching while her young neighbor flings Kleenex around the house, or […]
First published in 1963,?ÿHop on Pop?ÿremains a perennial favorite when it comes to teaching kids to read. Here, as in most of his extensive body of work, Dr. Seuss creates uncomplicated, monosyllabic rhymes to foster learning and inspire children to read. But what was radical about this little book at the time of publication (and […]
From dreamy thoughts about colour to fantastic notions on left and right, this surreal book encourages young children to let their imaginations run riot and think up all kinds of weird and wonderful things. This delightful Beginner Book now joins 16 of Dr. Seuss most popular works in the Classic Collection series, which also contains […]
“A haunting and unusual story based on the fact that in the early 1800s an Indian girl spent 18 years alone on a rocky island far off the coast of California. . . . A quiet acceptance of fate characterizes her ordeal.”–School Library Journal, starred review. William Allen White Award; ALA Notable Childrens Book; 1961 […]
Anne Shirley is grown up, has married her beloved Gilbert and now is the mother of six mischievous children. These boys and girls discover a special place all their own, but they never dream of what will happen when the strangest family moves into an old nearby mansion. The Meredith clan is two boys and […]
Blubber?ÿis a good name for her, the note from Caroline said about Linda. Jill crumpled it up and left it on the corner of her school desk. She didnt want to think about Linda or her dumb report on the whale just then. Jill wanted to think about Halloween. But Robby grabbed the note and […]
Although the Little House stories are traditionally seen as “girl” books, boys might be happily surprised if they take another peek at their sisters shelves.?ÿLittle House in the Big Woods–the first book of the series and Laura Ingalls Wilders first childrens book–is full of the thrills, chills, and spills typically associated with “boy” books. Any […]
“If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until it looks so ugly you can hardly bear to look at it.” How do you outwit a Twit? Mr. and Mrs. Twit […]
A paperback edition of E.B. Whites classic novel about one small mouse on a very big adventure! With black and white illustrations. Stuart Little is no ordinary mouse. Born to a family of humans, he lives in New York City with his parents, his older brother George, and Snowbell the cat. Though hes shy and […]
To impress Julius Caesar, Queen Cleopatra promises to build the Roman Emperor a magnificent palace in just three months. Of course, Asterix has to get involved. By the time his feisty group from Gaul have finished, they??ve outwitted the Roman army, too.
In autumn, a strong wind blows flower seeds high in the air and carries them far across the land. One by one, many of the seeds are lost — burned by the sun, fallen into the ocean, eaten by a bird. But some survive the long winter and, come spring, sprout into plants, facing new […]