Prosper and Bo are orphans on the run from their cruel aunt and uncle. The brothers decide to hide out in Venice, where they meet a mysterious thirteen-year-old who calls himself the “Thief Lord.” Brilliant and charismatic, the Thief Lord leads a ring of street children who dabble in petty crimes. Prosper and Bo delight […]
Sent in 1910 to live with distant relatives who own a rubber plantation along the Amazon River, English orphan Maia is excited. She believes she is in for brightly colored macaws, enormous butterflies, and “curtains of sweetly scented orchids trailing from the trees.” Her British classmates warn her of man-eating alligators and wild, murderous Indians. […]
Judy gets a taste of her own medicine in a hilarious new episode sure to tickle your humerus (aka funny bone) and put you in a very Judy Moody mood! She took her own temperature. With the fancy thermometer that beeped. It was not normal. It was not 98.6. Judys temperature was 188.8! Judys temperature […]
“This sequel to JUDY MOODY handily matches the original in zip and wit . . . Even Judy could spell two words that describe both the plot and its heroine: f-r-e-s-h and f-u-n-n-y.”??PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (starred review) Everyone knows that Judy Moody has a mood for every occasion, and this time she??s in a jealous mood. […]
The mercurial Judy returns – and she??s in a mood to take on the world!?ÿ Get ready for the newest installment in the hilarious Judy Moody series. Rare! It all starts with the Crazy Strip contest ?? and the dream that she, Judy Moody, might one day see her very own adhesive-bandage design covering the […]
“This is a great choice for first-chapter-book readers, especially those already acquainted with Judy.”??BOOKLIST Judy Moody ate one, two, three bowls of cereal. No prize. She poured four, five, six bowls of cereal. Nothing. Seven. Out fell the Mystery Prize. Judy definitely has a mood for every occasion. And now she has a mood ring […]
“This delightful book will inspire children to write their own declarations of independence complete with ??alien?? rights and the ??purse?? of happiness.” — SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL?ÿ Hear ye! Hear ye! Everyone knows that Judy Moody has a mood for every occasion, and now a visit to Boston has put her in a revolutionary frame of […]
“A humorous peek at the world through the eyes of a precocious third grader. . . . This entertaining journey will have easy-chapter-book readers lining up for the trip.” ?? SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL Judy Moody cannot believe her ears. There at the lunch table, a girl called Amy Namey is interviewing Judy??s best friends. Even […]
Judy Moody is making a list and checking it twice, but all her brother, Stink, wants this year is snow. It hasn??t snowed on Christmas in Virginia in more than a hundred years, however, so what are the chances that that will change? Enter the new mailman, Mr. Jack Frost, who not only looks like […]
Its her funniest adventure yet! A few sessions with a college-age math tutor turn Judy into a jargon-spouting polygon princess. Crucial! Judy Moody is in a mood. Not a good mood. And definitely NOT a math mood. The substitute teacher in Class 3T thinks Judys math skills need improving. So Judy has to start meeting […]
Hectate Tenbury-Smith can turn people into animals, and create new animals out of thin air. She??s an animal witch, and a recent graduate of a school for good witches. Determined to make the world a better place, Heckie befriends a boy named Daniel, and informs him of her mission to do good by turning bad […]
This collection brings between two covers some of the most memorable fiction that has emerged from R.K. Narayans pen. It contains. The Man-eater of Malgudi, arguably the greatest novel Narayan has ever written, which tells the story of Nataraj, owner of a small printing press, and his house guest Vasu, a taxidermist, who moves into […]
Black Bugs. Green Bugs. Fat Bugs. Buggy Bugs., I like Bugs!, , A rhyming ode to insects, penned by none other then Margaret Wise Brown. This poem was originally published in The Friendly Book., , Mile 1 books entice brand-new readers with rhyme, rhythm, and repetition. The type is big, the words are easy, and […]
Four gems, with new introductions, mark acclaimed Indian writer R. K. Narayan??s centennial?ÿ Introducing this collection of stories, R. K. Narayan describes how in India “the writer has only to look out of the window to pick up a character and thereby a story.” Powerful, magical portraits of all kinds of people, and comprising stories […]
The best of a lifetimes work-novels, short stories, essays, travel pieces and short non-fiction-of one of the worlds finest writers comes together in Malgudi Landscapes. Skilfully edited and introduced by S. Krishnan, this selection brings Malgudi, the enchanting little South Indian town that R.K. Narayan created, to glorious and colourful life.