Sonia, a future world-famous veterinarian, and her newly remarried father engage in a comic but touching battle of wills over a friendly stray dog called Max, in this award-winning novel about contemporary family life. Reissue....
"Austin's visit to his grandmother's is the first since Grandpa died. Austin notices Grandpa's things but feels the emptiness of his absence. This spare story vividly captures the emotions of painful times and shows how they ease with sharing and rem...
Disaster becomes the result when ten-year-old Maggie Hunter--the child of divorced and feuding parents--sets out to even the score with an obnoxious classmate, Corky Newton, who has a taste for playing dirty tricks...
Independent-minded and angry at being left at home while her parents travel on business, twelve-year-old Iris gives her babysitter the slip; but a disturbing incident makes her realize that she does need her family and friends...
A hilarious look at life in the sixth grade follows Mrs. Gladys B. Furley, R.N., Human Interaction teacher, and her innovative approach to sex education, an approach that reassures twelve-year-old River about the awful mysteries of becoming a teenage...
Young readers will love the latest novel from Newbery Honor winner Mavis Jukes:
River is dreading the assignment in Mrs. Furley's Human Interaction class. The students actually have to discuss a boy's changes! River is finding it hard en...
A hilarious account of preparing for New Year's Eve for the millennium with romance, drama, shopping, two devilish stepsisters, and a happily-ever-after ending.
Ashley Ella Toral wants to spend the last hours of 1999 and the first hours of the...
A hilarious account of preparing for New Year's Eve for the millennium with romance, drama, shopping, two devilish stepsisters, and a happily-ever-after ending.
Ashley Ella Toral wants to spend the last hours of 1999 and the first hours of the...
You’re a gruff bear with fleas. A grump with a hump between your shoulders.
So begins Mavis Jukes’s playful story of a young girl who wanders the house, imagining herself as a bear with lots to do: sniff for owl in the skies, go for a dip,...
Illus. in full color. "Timid Alex strives to be like his rugged cowboy stepfather, and the two find a common bond when Alex 'rescues' Jake from a wolf spider. Jukes' quiet observations are unfaltering in their perceptiveness. Radiant full-page pastel...
Newbery Honor Award -- winning author Mavis Jukes is back with a lovable new character named Carson. His father moves him to a new town in Northern California, where he'll be the new kid in class -- friendless and alone, except for his beloved stuffe...