During summer vacation at Aunt Paula's lakeside cabin, daring fisherman Nate issues an ultimate challenge to his hesitant older brother, Hank--an offer to kiss on the mouth every fish that Hank can catch

You Cheat!

Gilson, Jamie

Children's Books

Simon&Schuster

The year is 1614. Recently orphaned Lizzy Tinker has lived half of her twelve years in Holland, but she does not feel at home there. Lizzy belongs to a small congregation of religious refugees who have fled England in order to worship as they choose. The Dutch people enjoy a free and easy lifestyle that Master William Brewster constantly admonishes his austere English Pilgrims to resist. Many find this difficult, including Lizzy. Although the Brewsters took her in when her father died, she doesn't feel at home with them either. Her undisciplined tongue always seems to get her in trouble. What is more, Lizzy has a talent for cooking, and she loves making sinfully delicious Dutch cookies and cakes. Her kitchen craft has landed her a job cooking for a Dutch family whose precocious eight-year-old son has a stubborn nature, artistic talent, and nose for trouble even greater than Lizzy's own. Heaven help her now!With meticulous research and great imagination, Jamie Gilson has created an authentic, entertaining story that brings to life seventeenth- century Holland and the unique culture that fostered both the Mayflower Pilgrims and master painters such as Rembrandt.

Stink Alley

Literature & Fiction

Harpercollins

Wagon Train 911

Dinah wants to pass on this trip to the past.
Five-foot-ten-inch tall Dinah is less than thrilled when Mr. Marconi "marries" her to her muvh shorter classmate Orin for the fith-grade wagon train project. Dinah, Orin, and the rest of Wagon Train Seven are assigned a two-week journey along the Oregon Trail. But Wagon Train Seven can't seem to get anywhere without a frontier flare-up. Can this be how the West was won?

Hobie Hanson knows that the sounds coming from across the hall can mean only one thing: 4A has a substitute teacher. And she's sinking fast. Hobie's certain 4B will never be so lucky. Their regular fourth grade teacher, Mr. Star, is as healthy as a horse. 
The very next day, though, Mr. Star rushes out of the room -- "indisposed," the principal says -- and Hobie and his classmates hear "s-u-b". They are prepared. No stranger could possibly withstand the volley from their vast arsenal of sub sinkers. Except, perhaps, Miss Ivanovitch. It soon becomes clear that it might not be the sub who sinks -- this time, it might just be the students.

Thirteen Ways to Sink a Sub

Humor

HarperColl

Richard begins to worry when he discovers that someone in Mrs. Zookey's second-grade class has head lice

Itchy Richard

Clarion Books

The second story about Mrs. Zookey's second-grade class focuses on the kids at Table Two, Endangered Animals Week, and Patrick's choice between hanging around with real scary bats or letting his friends desert him for the class's pesty new know-it-all.

It Goes Eeeeeeeeeeeee!

Bug in a Rug

Richard's day gets off to a bad start when he has to wear too-big purple corduroy pants to school. Although it's Richard's turn to lead the Pledge of Allegiance and to hand out the mealworms that Mrs. Zookey's class is going to study, those purple pants keep getting in his way. Richard tells his classmates that the pants are a gift from his aunt and uncle, who are space aliens from the purple planet Pluto. After he names one of his mealworms Uncle Ken, the real Uncle Ken shows up in Mrs. Zookey's classroom-knock-knock jokes, too-loud laugh, and all. Richard has some explaining to do, but a plan for Silly Clothes Day and a surprising rapport with his uncle make it a good day after all.

With a friend like Patrick, who needs enemies? Patrick is a showoff and a prankster, and Richard is his usual target. Resolved not to let Patrick get him in trouble, Richard is sucked in by The Mosquito, a way to eat red Jell-O through a straw, and of course trouble ensues. Complications arise when the new girl from France thinks the boys are seriously injured, and miscommunication is all too easy when idioms in English and in French are taken literally. The shifting alliances, interests, and concerns of second-graders are authentically and humorously depicted in this easy-to-read school story.

My Teacher Is an Idiom

Growing Up & Facts of Life

Hello, My Name Is Scrambled Eggs

When his folks host a Vietnamese family that has come to settle in their town, Harvey enjoys Americanizing twelve-year-old Tuan.

Demco Media

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You Cheat!

Stink Alley

Wagon Train 911

Thirteen Ways to Sink a Sub

Itchy Richard

It Goes Eeeeeeeeeeeee!

Bug in a Rug

My Teacher Is an Idiom

Hello, My Name Is Scrambled Eggs

Thirteen Ways to Sink a Sub