Friends - When his friend moves away, a boy sets out on a journey to find her.
My Blue Bunny, Bubbit - A little girl who loves her
blue wool
bunny makes a special toy friend for her new baby brother.
Lost Cat - Slipper the
cat is mistakenly left
behind in the commotion when the lady she has always lived with moves in
with her daughter's family, so Slipper sets out to find someone new to
adopt.
Ant and Honey Bee, A Pair Of Friends In Winter - The funny, endearing insect pals find
a way to be more than fair-weather
friends in a second early chapter book from Megan McDonald
and G. Brian Karas. "Brrrr!" The leaves are off the trees,
and frost is on the ground. It's time for bugs to hunker down
and hide out for the
winter. But
Ant isn't ready to hunker down.
Ant isn't ready to be "all by herself" for months on end. The thought
of a long chilly season without her best friend,
Honey Bee, is enough to make
Ant shiver with dread. Can
Ant brave the cold for one last surprise visit before the snow flies?
And will
Honey Bee welcome an interruption
of her peace
and quiet? The author
of the Judy Moody series teams up again with award-winning illustrator G. Brian Karas to show that true
friends can weather whatever comes their way -- even if one is feeling antsy
and the other has blissful hibernation
in mind.
Mysterious Traveler - Desert guide Issa finds the baby girl Mariama after a sandstorm, and
raises her as his own daughter--until a young man and his protectors
come seeking a guide for their dangerous journey through the Bitter
Mountains.
The Silver Button - At
the same moment that Jodie's baby brother takes his first step, a city's worth of moments unfold.
Eat Like A Bear - Follows
a bear
from the time she emerges from her den in April after four months
without food, through months of eating fish, ants, and huckleberries, to
midwinter when the arrival of two cubs interrupts her long winter's
rest. Includes facts about brown (grizzly) bears of the Yellowstone
National Park/Glacier National Park region.
Henry's Hand -
Henry is a monster whose body parts tend to fall off but his right
hand helps keep everything together and is his best friend, until
Henry becomes lazy and his
hand decides to leave.
Spark - "
Spark is a little dragon with a big problem. He can't control his fiery breath. Even practicing doesn't help. Will
Spark ever be able to tame his flame?"-- Provided by publisher.
King For A Day - "Even though he is confined to
a wheelchair,
a Pakistani boy tries to capture the most kites during Basant, the annual spring kite festival, and become "
king"
for the
day. Includes an afterword about the Basant festival"--Provided by publisher.
The Invisible Boy - Brian has always felt
invisible at school, but when a new student, Justin, arrives, everything changes.
Herman And Rosie - New York City, a "groovy little jazz number" brings together a lonely crocodile
and deer.
Fortunately, The Milk - While picking up
milk for his children's cereal, a father is abducted by aliens and finds himself on a wild adventure through time and space.
Archon - Twelve-year-old Taemon struggles with the fallout from his role in
ending the city of Deliverance's ability to use telekinetic powers and
embarks on a dangerous journey with Amma to find his missing father in a
Republik.
Rooftoppers - When authorities threaten to take Sophie, twelve, from Charles who has
been her guardian since she was one and both survived a shipwreck, the
pair goes to Paris to try to find Sophie's mother, and they are aided by
Matteo and his band of "
rooftoppers."
Words with Wings - Gabby daydreams to tune out her parents' arguments, but when her parents
divorce and she begins a new school, daydreaming gets her into trouble.
Her mother scolds her for it, her teacher keeps telling her to pay
attention, and the other kids tease her...until she finds a friend who
also daydreams and her teacher decides to work a daydreaming-writing
session into every school day.
With a notebook "thick
with
daydreams," Gabby grows more confident about herself and her future.
This verse novel poignantly celebrates the power of writing and the
inspiration a good teacher can deliver.
The Bingo Rematch - Everybody is fighting in sixth-grader Maximilian's world as his elderly aunts battle for
the Queen
Bingo trophy, his masked uncles wrestle for
the tag-team title of
the world, and his sweetheart and
the "new girl" battle for Max's heart.
Serafina's Promise - In a poor village outside of Port-au-Prince, Haiti,
Serafina works hard to help her family, but dreams of going to school and becoming a doctor--then the earthquake hits and
Serafina must summon all her courage to find her father and still get medicine for her sick baby brother as she promised.
The Cat With Seven Names- A wandering cat brightens the lives of six lonely people--and persuades all of them to feed him until a near accident brings them all together.
Round Is A Tortilla- A little girl discovers things that are round, square, and rectangular in her Hispanic American neighborhood.
