A touchingly honest, candidly hysterical memoir from breakout
teen author Maya Van Wagenen
Stuck at the bottom of the social ladder at “pretty much the lowest level of people at school who aren’t paid to be here,” Maya Van Wagenen decided to begin a unique social experiment.
“My daughter used to be so wonderful. Now I can barely stand
her and she won’t tell me anything. How can I find out
what’s going on.”
“There’s a clique in my daughter’s grade that’s making her life miserable.
“There’s a clique in my daughter’s grade that’s making her life miserable.
From Newbery Award winner Phyllis Reynolds Naylor comes a witty
tale of the Wild West filled with comical cliffhangers and
featuring a cast of plucky orphans and dastardly villains.
Emily Wiggins is poor and timid, without a drop of self-confidence.
Emily Wiggins is poor and timid, without a drop of self-confidence.
Maxie McNabb and her miniature dachshund, Stretch, are just back
from their latest adventure when a murder shatters the quiet in
their hometown of Homer, Alaska. Now it's up to Maxie to find the
killer - a search that leads her to a place called 'the end of the
road.
This four-story collection includes.
Gooney Bird Greene
There’s never been anyone like Gooney Bird Greene at Watertower Elementary School. She is the star of story time and keeps her class on the edge of their seats with her “absolutely true” stories.
Gooney Bird Greene
There’s never been anyone like Gooney Bird Greene at Watertower Elementary School. She is the star of story time and keeps her class on the edge of their seats with her “absolutely true” stories.
Two-time Newbery Medalist Lois Lowry introduces a new girl in class
who loves being the center of attention and tells the most
entertaining “absolutely true” stories.
There’s never been anyone like Gooney Bird Greene at Watertower Elementary School.
There’s never been anyone like Gooney Bird Greene at Watertower Elementary School.
Gooney Bird Greene likes to be right smack in the middle of
everything. That's why she wants to have the lead role of Squanto
in her class Thanksgiving pageant. But that role will go to whoever
finds someone to be the room mother. All the parents are so busy,
no one can bring cupcakes to the play.
Gooney Bird Greene has a fabulous idea after her teacher reads
fables to the class. The children learn that fables are stories
with animal characters that teach something important.
Gooney’s fabulous idea is that each student create their own
fable and tell it to the class.
Gooney Bird Is So Absurd
On the day that Gooney Bird wears her special brain-warming hat to school, Mrs. Pidgeon is teaching her class about poetry. But just when things are going well, the kids get some terrible news. And Gooney Bird will need all the inspiration her brain can muster to organize the most important poem the class has ever written.
On the day that Gooney Bird wears her special brain-warming hat to school, Mrs. Pidgeon is teaching her class about poetry. But just when things are going well, the kids get some terrible news. And Gooney Bird will need all the inspiration her brain can muster to organize the most important poem the class has ever written.
From the Anthony and Macavity award-winning author
of Murder at Five Finger Light.
After healing from knee surgery, Jessie Arnold can’t wait to train for the Iditarod, but she and her dogs must work hard to qualify. Jessie’s practice run goes smoothly until her sled hits a bump along the trail—a dead body.
After healing from knee surgery, Jessie Arnold can’t wait to train for the Iditarod, but she and her dogs must work hard to qualify. Jessie’s practice run goes smoothly until her sled hits a bump along the trail—a dead body.
Honey Santana–impassioned, willful, possibly bipolar,
self-proclaimed “queen of lost causes”–has a
scheme to help rid the world of irresponsibility, indifference, and
dinnertime sales calls. She’s taking rude, gullible
Relentless, Inc.
Eleven-year-old Sallie March is a whip-smart tomboy and voracious
reader of Western adventure novels. When she and her ladylike older
sister Maude are orphaned for the second time, they decide to take
matters into their own hands and escape their self-serving
guardians for the wilds of the frontier and an adventure the likes
of which Sallie has only read about.
