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How to Read Literature Like a Professor: For Kids
Thomas C. Foster · HarperCollins; Reprint edition
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In How to Read Literature Like a Professor: For Kids, New York Times bestselling author and professor Thomas C. Foster gives tweens the tools they need to become thoughtful readers. With funny insights and a conversational style, he explains the way writers use symbol, metaphor, characterization,... |
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National Football League
David Rausch · Epic
Format: Print book
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"Engaging images accompany information about the National Football League. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 2 through 7"-- |
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Bad Kitty Camp Daze
NICK BRUEL · Roaring Brook Press
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover
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Kitty s life is really hard. Like really, REALLY hard. All she asks for is twenty-two hours a day to sleep and food to be delivered morning and night. But does she get it? No. And when Puppy and Baby get a little rambunctious during her naptime, Kitty gets bonked on the head and starts... |
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A Home for Mr. Emerson
Barbara Kerley · Scholastic Press,
Pages: 48
Format: Print book
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From the award-winning creators of THOSE REBELS, JOHN & TOM, a joyful portrait of an American icon and an inspiring blueprint for how to live your life."All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better."Before Ralph Waldo... |
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Zoobots: Wild Robots Inspired by Real Animals
Helaine Becker · Kids Can Press
Format: Hardcover
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Innovations in the world of robotics are multiplying, with many cutting-edge breakthroughs, and this exciting and timely new book for young readers explores one particularly intriguing area the world of robo-animals, or zoobots. In an attempt to design robots that can solve problems or perform... |
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The Buccaneers' Code
Caroline Carlson · HarperCollins Publishers
Pages: 301
Format: Print book
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Humor, magic, and adventure abound in the third - and final - book of the Very Nearly Honorable League of Pirates series.Hilary Westfield is now a freelance pirate. After trying to prove herself to the VNHLP, she realized many members of the League weren't all that honorable - not even... |
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Lord and Lady Bunny--Almost Royalty!
Polly Horvath · Schwartz & Wade Books
Pages: 293
Format: Hardcover
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In this hilarious sequel to Mr. and Mrs. Bunny - Detectives Extraordinaire! - that even includes a guest appearance by J. K. Rowling a.k.a. "Oldwhatshername" - Madeleine wants nothing more than to save money for college, but her impractical, ex-hippie parents are broke. When the family... |
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The Case of the Missing Moonstone
Jordan Stratford · Alfred A Knopf
Pages: 216
Format: Print book
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History, mystery, and science collide in a new series for middle-grade readers, perfect for fans of The Mysterious Benedict Society and Lemony Snicket! Jordan Stratford imagines an alternate 1826, where Ada Lovelace (the world's first computer programmer) and Mary Shelley (author... |
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Alison the Art Fairy
Daisy Meadows · Scholastic (Us)
Pages: 80
Format: Print book
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It's time for Jack Frost to learn his lesson! Best friends Kirsty Tate and Rachel Walker usually only get to spend vacations and holidays with each other. But for a special week, they'll both be going to the same school! It's a good thing the two friends are together. Jack Frost is causing... |
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Chinese Fables: The Dragon Slayer and Other Timeless Tales of Wisdom
Shiho S. Nunes · Tuttle Publishing; Hardcover with Jacket edition
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the 2014 Aesop Prize for Childrens and Young Adult Literature Winner of the 2013 Gelett Burgess Childrens Book Award for Fables, Folklore Fairytales 2014 Creative Child Magazine Book of the Year Award Winner For thousands of years, Chinese storytellers have delighted listeners... |
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Sugar Gliders
Kristin Petrie · Abdo Publishing Company
Format: Book
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Describes the physical features, habitat, defense mechanisms, and behavior of sugar gliders and what needs to be done to care for them as pets.Title Sugar GlidersAuthor Petrie, KristinPublisher Abdo GroupPublication Date 20120801Number of Pages 24Binding Type LIBRARYLibrary of Congress... |
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Middle School: Just My Rotten Luck
James Patterson · Little, Brown and Company, 2015.
Pages: 301
Format: Print book
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TOUCHDOWN! James Patterson will have kids busting out laughing as they follow lovable bad-boy Rafe's struggles to score big on the field--and in the social scene! In this seventh Middle School episode, Rafe heads back to the place his misadventures began: the dreaded Hills Village Middle... |
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Mary Cassatt
Iain Zaczek · Gareth Stevens Publishing
Format: Print book
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From School Library Journal Gr 3-5-These books organize biographical material around the artists' works. They offer practical tips in the "How to Paint Like..." chapters. The writing is clear but will not necessarily grab readers. For example, Zaczek writes... |
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The School for Good and Evil #4: Quests for Glory
SOMAN CHAINANI · HarperCollins
Pages: 568
Format: Hardcover
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If Good and Evil can't find a way to work together, neither side will survive.With every end comes a new beginning in the fourth installment of Soman Chainani's New York Times bestselling School for Good and Evil series, Quests for Glory.Join Sophie, Agatha, Tedros, and the other students... |
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