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Thirteen-year-old Sammy must call upon her detective skills to solve the mystery when a dog she is watching disappears from a city parade and the owner receives a ransom note.

The Beacon Street Girls fear the future may hold big changes for them when Charlotte's father wants to move away, Maeve starts stressing over an important project, and a new girl tries to join their group.

A mother and child watch as tadpoles develop and grow into frogs.

After their archaeologist mother fails to return from Mexico and they discover that someone is stalking their Albuquerque house, twelve-year-old Kevin and his opera-singing older sister flee to Venice, California, where they hope that new identities will keep them safe.

A collection of easy-to-read tongue twisters. SUBJECTS: Readers (elementary), Fiction, Stories in Rhyme, Nonsense Verses.

Bat wakes up, flies into the night, uses the echoes of her voice to navigate, hunts for her supper, and returns to her roost to feed her baby.

A young boy remembers the Saturdays when he was nine or ten and he would ride his bicycle to his Ma'am-maw's house, where they spent the day together mowing the lawn, picking vegetables, eating lunch, and making delicious, sweet teacakes.

When thirteen-year-old Sammy finds herself with an abandoned baby on her hands, she sets out to find the young mother, who may belong to a gang, and accidentally jeopardizes her position on the softball team.

A seaside adaptation of the familiar rhyme about an old woman who swallows a fly, in which the lady in question swallows a shell, a crab, some sand, and many other puzzling items for a creative reason revealed at the end.

Resets Hans Christian Andersen's tale, The ugly duckling, in the Northern Piney Woods of Alaska, where a baby moose is raised by a family of ducks who try to teach him to waddle, quack, and fly but cannot see his true beauty.

After a lone hungry wolf finds companions whose combined strength drags down an old moose, the entire pack sleeps through a blizzard and dreams of the return of spring.

Isabel helps her family plan her sister Elena Maria's quincean?era at her uncle's ranch in San Antonio.

Two dogs learn that despite their differences, they are both well-loved by their owner.

A collection more than one hundred silly poems from Jack Prelutsky with activities; and features selections entitled "It's Hard to Be an Elephant," "Once They Believed in Dragons," "Is Traffic Jam Delectable?" and others; and includes an audio CD with thirty performances by the author.

Presents an illustrated dictionary of theater terms, with quotes from Broadway actors, facts about backstage duties and logistics, and more, with an audio CD of "I Was Here," performed by Brian Stokes Mitchell.