Ms. Frizzle's class learn about the incredible systems that work together to make the human body function.

From bestselling author Bill Myers comes another hilarious, warmhearted, and action-packed adventure starring the Mulligan family. The Mulligans are used to a little bit of crazy. What do you do when the crazy all happens at the same time? Street-smart Hector has had a hard time fitting in at school - unless you count having regular fights with other boys as fitting in. Now he’s got a few new friends . . . if he can prove that he belongs. But the...

Provides answers to such children's questions as "Why can't I hear God talking to me?" and "How big is God?".

Dreaming with Animals is the first children's biography of celebrated sculptor and Brookgreen Gardens cofounder Anna Hyatt Huntington. Her remarkable life serves as an inspiration not only because of the greatness of her art but also because of her courage and perseverance. L. Kerr Dunn highlights how Anna overcame society's expectations of women and survived a life-threatening illness to become a prolific sculptor and an important benefactor of art...

Once the rain stops, what is there to do but go outside and explore your newly wet and sparkly backyard? In this counting board book, young readers will discover all the things the rain brings out: one puddle, four butterflies, nine wiggly worms.

Alexander Graham Bell led a fascinating life. He was an immigrant, an inventor, a pioneering speech teacher, and a champion of educating the hearing impaired. Bell was raised by a mother who had nearly no hearing, married a deaf woman, and was lifelong friends with Helen Keller. Few people realize that Bell considered his work with the deaf the most important of his life. Quite a statement, considering Bell's inventions ranged from telephony and phonographs...

Vee's favorite bedtime story is the night she met her parents. When Vee was nine months old, they flew to China to bring her home. But when she struggles to keep up in Chinese dance class and a woman at the grocery store makes Vee feel like she doesn't belong, her white parents don't always understand. Vee wants to embrace every part of herself, but it's hard when it feels like she has to choose. With help from another adoptee, can Vee find a way

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Another hilarious companion to I Wanna Iguana.
Alex is not happy about being sent to his grandparents’ retirement community while his parents go on a fabulous vacation. What could be worse than tagging along to Grandma’s boring bridge game or enduring the sight of Grandpa’s dentures?
 
But as the week goes on, Alex’s desperate emails to his parents turn into stories about ice cream before dinner...

D'une beauté surnaturelle car elles sont de sang-mêlé Faé et Humain, Nox et Amaris grandissent dans un orphelinat. Inséparables, les deux jeunes filles se font une promesse : un jour, elles vivront ensemble, loin de cet enfer où elles ne sont que de vulgaires marchandises. Mais lorsque la patronne d'une maison close offre une fortune pour acheter Nox, celle-ci devient esclave de plaisirs au service d'hommes riches et puissants. Amaris réussit...

"In 1948, following World War II, eleven-year-old Anna, her mother, and older sister must flee Czechoslovakia after Russian Communists take over the government. Includes notes about the author's family history, on which the story is based"--Title verso page.