![Mice and Beans](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0439183030.jpg?itok=31bfMIg9)
As Rosa Maria prepares for the family celebration of her granddaughter’s birthday, she gets unexpected help from the mice who live in the house. Spanish words are integrated into the joyful text and reflected in the energetic, vibrant illustrations.
Mice and Beans
![Mitchell Is Moving](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0689808763.jpg?itok=PlpGeBez)
After years in his home, Mitchell, a dinosaur, builds a new house and plans to move. But Margo, his friend and neighbor, just doesn’t understand. Humorous illustrations combine with a familiar theme for a rollicking story.
Mitchell Is Moving
![Moving Day](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0688139493.jpg?itok=FI-bjo3B)
A hermit crab is looking for the perfect home. He does ultimately find it, though getting there is what makes the fun. The comic illustrations add to the humor in this rhyming, cumulative look at the crab’s move out and up.
Moving Day
![Mud Flat April Fool](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0688151639.jpg?itok=0nA1alya)
Something peculiar is going on in the village of Mud Flat today. Mr. Duffy has disappeared in a puff of green smoke, and Brian woke up with his head on backward. Doris is greeted by a singing tree, and poor Lila sniffs a rose that promptly squirts her in the eye. What is this strange brand of spring fever?
Mud Flat April Fool
![Nate the Great](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/044046126X.jpg?itok=ig6EWy9m)
Meet Nate the Great, the neighborhood detective. He’s just finishing up breakfast (pancakes, of course) when his friend Annie calls, asking his help to find a missing painting. Can Nate’s keen powers of observation and deductive reasoning save the day?
Nate the Great
![Never Mind!: A Twin Novel](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0060543159.jpg?itok=NIVjL6Fx)
Twelve-year-old twins, Edward and Meg, have little in common beyond their birthday – that is, until they attend separate schools. Told by the distinctly different voices of Edward (Avi) and Meg (Rachael Vail), this tale of sibling life is sure to make readers laugh out loud.
Never Mind!: A Twin Novel
![I'm Not Moving, Mama](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0613217519.jpg?itok=Ekd2H7q3)
A young mouse digs in his heels while his mother is packing up their house for the inevitable move. Adults and children will see familiar behavior when the small mouse insists that he’s not going. The satisfying conclusion makes this book especially helpful.
I’m Not Moving, Mama
![Old Turtle's 90 Knock-Knocks, Jokes & Riddles](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0688095852.jpg?itok=T475V1BA)
Old Turtle’s friends discover that the doorbell doesn’t work when they come to visit him, and so they begin with knock-knocks: who’s there? Annie. Annie who? Annie body home? The wraparound story is used as a platform for a bunch of jokes, sure to please.
Old Turtle’s 90 Knock-Knocks, Jokes & Riddles
![Owen](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0688114490.jpg?itok=xkinAyCC)
Owen’s neighbor thinks that Owen is getting too old to take Fuzzy, his beloved yellow blanket, to kindergarten. With a snip, however, Owen’s inspired mom comes up with a creative solution for all.
Owen
![Paws Off, Cheddarface](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0439559685.jpg?itok=LdjRKQpk)
Geronimo Stilton narrates his cheesy saga of a reputation run amok. In this installment of the heavily illustrated, pun-filled series, the writer-detective-mouse must protect his reputation from an unscrupulous imposter.
Paws Off, Cheddarface
![Peek!: A Thai Hide-And-Seek](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0763620416.jpg?itok=nSDIGO5Y)
Baby knows that Jut-Ay means morning has come, and it’s time to play. But where is Baby hiding? Eechy-eechy-egg! crows the red-tailed rooster. Is Baby near? Hru-hruu! Hru-hruu! whines the puppy dog. Is Baby crouching there? Hornbill and snake, elephant and tiger – who can finally lead Papa to Baby’s hiding place?
Peek!: A Thai Hide-And-Seek
![Perloo the Bold](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0590110039.jpg?itok=lG4RdvzW)
Perloo is a peaceful scholar who has been chosen to succeed Jolaine as leader of the furry underground people called the Montmers. He finds himself in danger, though, when Jolaine dies and her evil son seizes control of the burrow.
Perloo the Bold
![Pippi Longstocking](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0142402494.jpg?itok=nR_vbPnB)
Pippi, an amazingly strong child, can pick up the house in which she lives alone in the middle of town. Her extraordinary adventures continue to delight and amaze children, just as Pippi did for the author’s own daughter.
Pippi Longstocking
![Poppy](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0380727692.jpg?itok=tALjDCuE)
A small mouse named Poppy overcomes a stronger adversary – an owl named Ocax – through determination and inner strength in this first installment of the popular Tales from Dimwood Forest series.
Poppy
![Ramona Quimby, Age 8](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0380709562.jpg?itok=fws_5WRr)
Ramona is ready for the challenges of a new school — without her older sister. It’s a year of change for the Quimby family and if everyone else can adjust, so can Ramona. The normal challenges of family life come alive here with verve and humor.
Ramona Quimby, Age 8
![Ribbit Riddles](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0142400564.jpg?itok=OHKHKztJ)
Where do frogs sit? On toadstools. What happened when the frog left his car in a no parking zone? It was toaded, of course! Jewel-toned, semi-abstract paintings illustrated this pun-filled book all about amphibious friends.
Ribbit Riddles
![Riding Freedom](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0439087961.jpg?itok=7TnyIG3p)
Charlotte Parkhurst could do almost anything with horses. Once out of the orphanage, Charlotte masquerades successfully as a man named Charley, and in spite of huge obstacles is able to drive a stagecoach and work with horses. Based on a real person, Charley also became the first woman to cast her vote in the state of California.
Riding Freedom
![Round Is a Mooncake: A Book of Shapes](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0811826767.jpg?itok=cL6Io9n3)
A girl discovers things that are round, square, and rectangular in her urban neighborhood. A gently rhyming text and crisply lined illustrations reveal many things that are universally recognizable as well as others that come from the child’s Chinese background.
Round Is a Mooncake: A Book of Shapes
![Sarah, Plain and Tall](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0060241012.jpg?itok=KjE_wzVB)
Set in the 1800s, a widowed farmer advertises for a wife and mother for his two children. A tall, plain woman answers the ad; Sarah leaves her Maine home and the sea for the Plains as she grows to love Caleb and Anna. An elegantly simple telling.
Sarah, Plain and Tall
![Sidewalk Circus](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0763611077.jpg?itok=1gmXqVru)
As advertisements go up announcing the arrival of the circus, children imagine the different acts on the sidewalks of their town. It’s a nearly wordless but richly imagined adventure.
Sidewalk Circus
![S.O.R. Losers](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0380699931.jpg?itok=7FNhmOU3)
The motto of South Orange River (S.O.R.) Middle School’s sports program is “everybody plays, everybody wins.” But all that changes when a group of 11 unenthusiastic seventh graders are forced to form a soccer team. Learn the secret of the S.O.R. Losers’ success in this original sports story.
S.O.R. Losers
![Starring Grace](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0142300225.jpg?itok=2_xNOycV)
It’s summer vacation for Grace and her neighborhood friends, just the time for the fun to begin! Grace remains the imaginative, energetic girl first introduced in Amazing Grace (1991) as she involves all the kids in dramatic play. From helping an isolated older woman to creating a circus, Grace and her chums spend a delightful summer vacation close to home.
Starring Grace
![Susan Laughs](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0805065016.jpg?itok=hg_YUWCi)
What Susan does everyday is revealed in a simple, rhyming text and light-lined, colored pencil illustrations. What Susan does and how she behaves is what all children do but she does it using a wheelchair, revealed — without sentimentality — in the final spread.
Susan Laughs
![Thank You, Mr. Falker](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0399231668.jpg?itok=miQRXZHw)
Learning how to read isn’t easy for Trisha. But with the help and support of a wise new teacher, she begins to blossom. Told with warmth and sensitivity, and illustrated in Polacco’s signature style, the story of a girl overcoming dyslexia is based on the author’s own experience.