Gavin wants to make a good impression at Carver Elementary, where no one knows he excels at soccer and skateboarding, but an annoying big sister, a bully, and his great aunt's Pomeranian are not helping.

On a short winter day, Samuel and his father enter into a series of trades with neighbors and strangers until they come home with a brown-eyed milk cow for Mama.

"In this high-interest novel for middle readers, 13-year-old Mark adjusts to long rides on the school bus after moving to a small town to live with his grandmother."-- Mark is a city kid who has come to a small town to live with his grandmother after his mom goes into rehab. He has to take a school bus home for the first time. The long, noisy ride home is nothing like riding city transit. There's some kind of secret code of knowing where you're allowed...

"Seven-year-old J.C. is excited about the class field trip to the Famous Black Americans Museum, especially since his dad is coming along--and when his group gets separated from their teacher in the crowded museum it is J.C. who remembers the map their teacher showed them, and reunites the groups"--Title verso page.

Jake is the best bull rider in his division, but after he finally takes a bad spill during a competition he has to overcome his fear before he can ride again.

Extrait : "Robert-Robert devait ce double nom à son père et à son parrain. C'était une singularité ; mais cette synonymie est encore préférable à la prétentieuse ribambelle de prénoms dont on se plaît quelquefois à étiqueter les enfants, et qui, par leur fade ou bizarre redondance, figureraient plus convenablement sur les rébus d'un marchand de bonbons que sur les graves registres du bureau de l'état-civil." À PROPOS DES ÉDITIONS...

With frostbitten fingers, sleepless nights and sore muscles, 14-year-old Jackson Jones and his posse of cousins discover the lost art of winging it when they take over an orchard of 300 wild apple trees. They know nothing about pruning or irrigation or pest control, but figure it out they must-if they are to avoid losing $8,000 (because of an unfair contract). With spot illustrations for mechanical-loving readers-the gears of a tractor, a plow with...