Zany cartoon illustrations add just the right amount of fun to this intriguing, stomach-turning collection of food lore. Includes a look at what are considered delicacies in other areas of the world, as well as little-known ingredients in some of kids' best loved snacks. Full-color illustrations.
When a teacher leaves a blank book in the Writer's Corner for her students tofind, an epic battle ensues as they follow her instructions to "write in thisbook."
In this imaginative story, a girl named Iggie is stuck inside on a rainy day and gets a bad case of the Krazies: mad, wild creatures who force her into a mess-making frenzy. Color illustrations accompany the text.
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle is a favorite middle-grade novel. This companion gives background on the author, including an interview, questions to guide reading, clues to themes, plot, characters, and setting of the book, a glossary, writing and other activities, and more. If you loved A Wrinkle in Time, you need this reading companion.
A stinkbug named Louise sets out to prove there is more to her than her smell by winning an ice skating competition. Does Louise have what it takes to defeat Kiki, the terrible cockroach who rules the ice rink? Color illustrations accompany the text.
While the Fantoras are away for the summer, their talented cat Ozymandias invites readers inside and reveals the truth behind an intriguing assortment of snapshots. From Francesca's revenge against a ballet class bully to vegetarian vampire Auntie Varavara's wedding, Ozzy's stories form a warm, funny chronicle of an offbeat family. Illustrations.
Ozzy the cat relates the further adventures of this unusual family, in which Bianca can bring things to life, Marco can make himself invisible, and Francesca can change the weather.
Illustrated in black-and-white. He played the game and out they came! To escape the endless chores on his aunt's chicken farm, Fred plays his computer's virtual reality game, Dumb. Playing Dumb, Frederick becomes Sir Frederick, the Fearless Knight battling alien forces. But these aliens look suspiciously like the plucked chickens in his aunt's ...
Meet the fabulous Fantoras. The grandmother sees the future in her knitting. The mother creates magical potions and can fly. Her husband can grow a tree of fruit salad. Even the kids have unusual superhuman talents in this offbeat family. "Jolly good fun, " says "Publishers Weekly."
Fred escapes from boring summer days on his aunt's chicken farm by playing virtual reality games on his computer, but when parts of a game intrude into real life, it's almost too exciting, even for Fred.
Ozzy the cat describes the activities of the unusual Fantora family, which includes a clairvoyant grandmother, an invisible boy, and a vegetarian vampire aunt.
The Scholastic Book of World Records is being freshened up for 2004: nearly all of the photos will be replaced, the graphs will be re-designed, and brand new records will be added. All of the entries will be revised, and an all new bonus section of wild and amazing facts will be included. Each of the 300 records in the book has its own page that ...
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