After the puppy kindergarten graduation, Charley is under his favorite cherry tree and his sister, Cara, runs toward him and tells of the surprise their mom is planning.
Winner of the Crystal Kite Award, this touching story explores what it mean to be a good friend, how you should react to a bully, and makes the events of September 11th, 2001 personal.
From the savanna to the city to outer space, celebrated Nordic children's book illustrator Linda Bondestam offers a charming peek at the many ways we settle in for sleep, with gorgeous, dreamlike illustrations full of offbeat humor.
Destiny doesn't factor into seventeen-year-old adoptee Maddie's rational world, where numbers and scientific probability have always proven to be the only things she can count on as safe and reliable.
Finn the fin-backed whale spends his days swimming with his mother and observing the beautiful marine life in their ocean home until a ';floating island with two-legged creatures' steals his mother from him.
This book on getting along with others offers teachers and counselors specific, easy-to-use strategies for approaching this sometimes difficult but important issue in the lives of middle school students.