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Lynne Cox, Brian Floca
World-renowned swimmer and bestselling author Lynne Cox and Caldecott Medal-winning illustrator Brian Floca team up to bring us this inspiring story of an elephant seal who knew exactly where she…
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Richard Jackson
A boy with a father in the military reflects on cherished memories of a camping trip with Dad in this warm, reassuring picture book.
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Brian Floca
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An ode to the essential workers keeping the country operating during the Covid-19 pandemic –
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon mission, Floca expands his Sibert Honor Book in this new edition, introducing a new generation of readers to a story…
Korean edition of [Keeping the City Going] by Brian Floca. Caldecott Award winner Brian Floca gives a heartfelt thank you to the essential workers who keep their cities going during…
Avi
A wolf and bird must fight the Starving Time and find food, while a human boy learns to hunt –
Avi’s beloved and award-winning Poppy series continues with this brand-new adventure beautifully illustrated by Floca.
An all new Poppy stories adventure –Cover.
Poppy, a timid dormouse, is a loyal, obedient subject of Ocax, the hoot owl who rules Dimwood Forest–until she sees Ocax devour her fiance. To prove that the intimidating ruler…
This delightful tale chronicles the early adventures of Poppy’s lost love, Ragweed. Determined to see the world, Ragweed leaves his family and country home and sets off by train for…
Includes sheet music for the song, A Mouse Will A-roving Go, written by Avi with music by Shaun Wolf Wortis.
Poppy, accompanied by her troublesome son Junior, his skunk friend, and Uncle Ereth the porcupine, responds to a summons to return to her ancestral home, Gray House, to save the…
Newbery Medalist Avi creates a new animal world in New York’s Central Park in the year 1900, where squirrels manage baseball teams, rats invade the park, and a possum works…
Newbery Medal-winning author Avi returns to Dimwood Forest with beloved characters Ragweed and Poppy, illustrated by Caldecott Medalist Brian Floca, for a brand-new book in the series.
In this best-selling Poppy story, the tiny deer mouse for which Avi’s award-winning series is named, rallies the courage to battle a tyrannical owl and leads her family to safety.
In this second book in The Dimwood Forest Chronicles , Poppy along with Rye, Ragweed’s brother, face kidnapping and imprisonment, and a daring rescue to fight beavers who have flooded…
Patricia Lakin
The cute hamster friends who live in the art room of an elementary school are back, and this time they are making Halloween masks. After the kids go home, Max…
Lisa Wheeler
Johanna Hurwitz
Four simple stories about playing outside that will make new readers eager to keep going!
Deborah Hopkinson
With simple but engaging text, paintings, and an illuminating author’s note telling the true account of a young slave who joins the Union Army, this tale of a real person’s…
Told with simple language, this emotional story is based on historical accounts of the real Bill Bayly, who defends his family farm near Gettysburg from Rebel troops looking for an…
When Max and Mo, two class hamsters, return to school and are placed in the Art Room, they use supplies found there to spell out their names for the students…
Kate Messner
With help from her Grandma Barb, irrepressible third grader Marty McGuire builds a habitat for worms in her school cafeteria as part of her class Save the Earth Project.
These classic readers are now available in paperback Big Book editions. Full color.
When all of the big kids go outside to play in the snow, Max and Mo want to join in the fun. Since its too cold out there for even…
When tomboy Marty is cast as the princess in the third-grade play, she learns about improvisation, which helps her become more adaptable. Illustrations.
Max and Mo are tired of eating corn. Luckily the big ones – the kids – just went apple picking. Everyone knows you can make applesauce with apples, but is…
Laura Amy Schlitz
A Newbery Medalist and a Caldecott Medalist join forces to give an overscheduled princess a day off – and a deliciously wicked crocodile a day on.
Stuart J. Murphy
Two squabbling siblings learn about symmetry when their babysitter helps them build and fly a kite.
Princess Cora is bored with her routines of life, so she asks her fairy godmother to help.
Max and Mo, the art room hamsters, decide to use the students’ supplies to prepare their own Halloween costumes. Includes instructions for making a paper Halloween mask.
Lakin, Patricia
From award-winning author Patricia Lakin and Caldecott Medal-winning illustrator Brian Floca comes a collectible boxed set with six Level 1 Ready-to-Reads starring the adorable hamsters, Max and Mo. Follow along…
Floca Avi (BRIAN)
Young Ereth the porcupine has a birthday he’ll never forget when he has a run-in with bears and foxes and other creatures of the forest.
Fun activities inside! –Dust jacket cover.
