In East Africa, a young girl learns that one cannot always judge by appearances as she and her mother visit a market in search of kanga cloth and meet merchants who all claim they have the secret to good chai (tea).

Product Description: Little Rabbit is very sad. He lost his favorite cuddly toy. He looked everywhere and can't find it! Fortunately, all his friends will help him look for it. Where did the cuddly toy hide?The My Baby Stories series deals with toddlers' everyday themes (friendship, animals)...read more

Product Description: Witty and nimble verse about body parts pairs with whimsical drawings in this informative, fun science poetry collection. It begins with an invitation to solve a series of poetic riddles: "Of course you have a body, / But do you have a clue / Where all the body parts you've got are found / And what they do?" Each poem that follows poses a puzzle in verse (with a sly wink and a nod to Shakespeare) and provides hints for uncovering the body part in question...read more

Product Description: Miller Sanford's parents think he's too young to explore the annual town fair alone with his best friend. Hopeful that this year they will reconsider, Miller works extra hard to be nice to his little sister Penny and her friends.When his mother can't attend the Fair and his father has to cover her volunteer booth hours as well as his own, Miller ends up with more responsibility than he can handle...read more

Product Description: For Nadine Rostraver, fourth grade means peer pressure and new social rules she hadn t anticipated. For one thing, girls aren t supposed to hang out with boys anymore. So where does that leave Nadine and her best friend Nick?Then Summer Crawford arrives at Upper Springville Elementary and Nadine s life goes from bad to worse! Nadine loses her job as the art editor on the class newspaper The Springville Spark and gets in some serious trouble with her teacher, Mr...read more

Product Description: Dive in--to award-winning, funny science poetry about a remarkable array of sea creatures! AT THE SEA FLOOR CAFE: ODD OCEAN CRITTER POEMS is a creative nonfiction companion to elementary and middle school ocean studies.Let s visit a habitat shallow and deep,and boiling hot, where acids seep,and frigid and pressured and mountainy-steep,Come explore the sea!Examine odd critters, enormous and tiny,sunlit reef toasty and arctic ice briny,jelly-ish, delicate, venomy, spiny,They all live in the sea!What sea creature literally spills its guts when disturbed?Why do bottlenose dolphins wear sponges on their heads?Dive in to find the answers to these questions and along the way discover some of the incredible ways ocean creatures forage for food, capture prey, trick predators, and protect their young in this collection of witty poems and astonishing facts...read more

Product Description: Most boys would love to spend a summer with a fun-loving bachelor uncle in a seaside cabin far away from the watchful eyes of their parents. But not Jonah Lander. Jonah has secretslots of themand they weigh heavily on his mind. Before leaving home, Jonah intercepts a letter to his parents from his school...read more

Product Description: A swarm of insects introduces readers to the joy of poetry. Witty nonfiction poems describe how insects capture prey, trick predators, attract mates, and have managed to survive for 400 million years. Scientifically accurate information further explains bug behavior...read more

Product Description: This educational activity book is full of tall ships fun for children 5-9 years. In-book activities include word finds, mazes, crosswords as well as nautical history, music, and poetry. Special attention to nautical terminology and technical accuracy.

Product Description: Book by STECK-VAUGHN