Caught up in the national excitement over the events of 1969, not the least of which is her own parent's possible divorce, Wheezie Moore devises a plan to fix everything and finds support in unexpected places....
After eagerly waiting to recieve her gifts, one young girl is very disappointed when they are stolen, but when a miracle occurs, she realizes the true meaning of Christmas has nothing to do with presents, in a charming tale set during the Great Depre...
It is Christmas Eve and Nicholas, a young chimney sweep, has one last chimney to clean. Shivering in his ragged coat, he climbs inside the narrow, sooty chimney, working his way to the top. From the roof, he sees the glow of fireplaces in the houses ...
When the sunshine pours like warm honey from the sky, it's time to tend Grandpa's bees. This day his granddaughter lends a hand, and she is treated to a spectacular show. The swarming bees whirl and twirl like a big buzzing cloud until they finally c...
"I was smitten, bitten by a love bug or something
I didn't even care that I'd just been hit.
I was in deep smit."
Laura Crapper, a seventeen-year-old combat-boot-wearing poet with spiked red hair, re...
Set in Atlantic City in the 1930s, a young girl tells of her great summer by the sea as she experiences the eclectic sights, sounds, and events all around her, such as the human cannonballs, card-playing cats, and the high-diving horse stunt. Reprint...
Cool Bopper is a bebopper in the Snazzy Catz Jazz Club, losses his choppers in the beboppin' crowd. Like Charlie Parker, Cool Bopper bops hard below silver stars and blue moons of night. One evening, Cool Bopper puts down his saxophone and begins to ...
Ben has always dreamed of becoming a cowboy. But when he and his family move from the West to New York City, they have to give up their ranch and their horses.
Ben doesn't like city life, and he misses the ranch. The only horses in the city...
The barn is old. The boards are beaten. A hundred years of wind and rain have taken their toll. When you step inside, you can smell the hay and horses. It's a beautiful place, this barn, in its rugged way. But now it's time for the barn to come down....
Her family runs Stevens Brothers Funeral Home. Which is ironic, since Faith Hope Stevens is not long for this world. Unless someone dies. Unless there is a match. Staying alive will mean a heart transplant. Faith copes with wit and nerve. She's also ...
Macy is dead. Selfies while driving never end well. She knows it now #suckstobeme. And she has unfinished business. Her friend Ryan is planning to shoot up the school. But the afterlife is so ... unexpected. She gets distracted. Who knew she would fi...
TERL Boosters offer expansion opportunities for your Teen Emergent Reader Libraries. Unlike the libraries, Booster titles are sold individually. Each Booster level supports a TERL library. Boosters can also stand alone and are excellent hi-lo classro...
TERL Boosters offer expansion opportunities for your Teen Emergent Reader Libraries. Unlike the libraries, Booster titles are sold individually. Each Booster level supports a TERL library. Boosters can also stand alone and are excellent hi-lo classro...
TERL Boosters offer expansion opportunities for your Teen Emergent Reader Libraries. Unlike the libraries, Booster titles are sold individually. Each Booster level supports a TERL library. Boosters can also stand alone and are excellent hi-lo classro...
Theme: Hi-Lo, emergent, teen content, full-color, Verse Jim is determined to overcome his fear of swimming in the ocean. He almost died in a riptide. But not this time. Then he sees something glimmer in the water. What is it? A huge fin. Then a girl....
A poignant middle grade animal story from talented author Linda Oatman High that will appeal to fans of Katherine Applegate’s "The One and Only Ivan." In this heartwarming novel, a girl and an elephant face the same devastating loss -- and slowly r...
First there was Bird. Then there was Bird-Bird. And now, Third Bird.Magnolia's daddy won the beloved cockatiel Third Bird at a carnival, just before hedied in a car accident. Magnolia promised to always take good care of Third Bird . . . butthen she ...
Get whisked away with Heather Whirl, Weather Girl, and her magical umbrella as she explores extreme weather and climate science in this new STEM chapter book series perfect for young readers ages 6â€"9.Heather Whirl is fascinated by the weather! With...
Get whisked away with Heather Whirl, Weather Girl and her magical umbrella as she and her friends experience wildfires and the impact of climate change in this chapter book for readers ages 6â€"9, the second in a series!Heather Whirl is fascinated by...
Ruby Bean, a 12-year-old Accidental Expert on Missing Mothers, embarks on a cross-country journey with her aunt to find her missing mother, who suffers from mental illness and addiction.Along the way, Ruby discovers that sometimes the worst events ca...