I see a monkey. The monkey swings in the tree. Beginning readers can learn all about monkeys in this short book in the I See Animals Series. With less than 20 unique words, kids can learn about interesting animals while building their reading fluency.

Andrew Yancy--late of the Miami Police and soon-to-be-late of the Monroe County sheriff's office--tackles a murder case that pits him against a twitchy widow, two optimistic real-estate speculators, a voodoo witch with a string of hapless lovers, and the eponymous bad monkey.

Jim Panzee wakes up in a bad mood one beautiful day, but he keeps denying he is grumpy even as his friends give advice for feeling better.

Clever monkey Chico Bon Bon builds lots of things with his many tools, and when he is captured by an organ grinder, he uses them to help him escape and get back home.

The 1925 case against high school coach and science teacher John Scopes, arrested for teaching evolution in defiance of a Tennessee state law, was America's original "Trial of the Century." The proceedings began as a publicity stunt but grew into a landmark event in the nation's history. The trial featured three-time presidential candidate and fundamentalist leader William Jennings Bryan, who argued on behalf of the prosecution, and famed agnostic...

Frank and Joe are called upon to find a wealthy industrialist’s son who has mysteriously disappeared. The only clue in the case leads the two young detectives to South America, where the intrigues of evil adversaries almost cost them their lives. Only through their courage and perseverance do the Hardys solve one of the toughest cases they have ever tackled.

The children are having a picnic at the zoo. Naughty Max Monkey is looking at their picnic food. He is hungry. Read to see what he does.

Eleven-year-old Clay must find a home on the streets of New York City in this award-winning, heartbreakingly honest novel.  He was eleven years old, and he had never felt so alone in his life.   Clay Garrity lived a normal life until his father lost his job and abandoned the family. Now his pregnant mother has deserted him too, leaving Clay alone in a welfare hotel with a jar of peanut butter and half a loaf of bread. Fearing being placed in foster...