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Two very good friends plan for Mother's Day, go to the beach, experiment with new shoes, and dig tunnels.

Paperback:

9780440402183 | Reprint edition (Yearling Books, July 1, 1989), cover price $2.95 | also contains What Is Informational Writing? | About this edition: Two very good friends plan for Mother's Day, go to the beach, experiment with new shoes, and dig tunnels.

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When Manuela's sheep are stolen, she has to go to Alice Nizzy Nazzy's talking road-runner-footed adobe house and try to get the witch to give the flock back, in a Southwestern version of the Baba Yaga story.

Paperback:

9780698116504 | Reprint edition (Puffin, September 1, 1998), cover price $6.99 | About this edition: When Manuela loses her sheep, the tracks lead directly to Alice Nizzy Nazzy's fence, in a version of the Russian tale of Baba Yaga relocated to the American Southwest

School and Library:

9780399227882 | Putnam Pub Group, April 1, 1995, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: When Manuela's sheep are stolen, she has to go to Alice Nizzy Nazzy's talking road-runner-footed adobe house and try to get the witch to give the flock back

Reinforced:

9780606154307 | Demco Media, January 1, 1999, cover price $15.85 | About this edition: When Manuela loses her sheep, the tracks lead directly to Alice Nizzy Nazzy's fence, in a version of the Russian tale of Baba Yaga relocated to the American Southwest

Prebinding:

9780613104937 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $16.45 | About this edition: When Manuela loses her sheep, the tracks lead directly to Alice Nizzy Nazzy's fence, in a version of the Russian tale of Baba Yaga relocated to the American Southwest

Product Description: Possum is from Earth. Alien is from another planet. Can these two ever be friends? Without a doubt!

Paperback:

9780689853265, titled "Alien & Possum: Friends No Matter What" | Reprint edition (Aladdin Paperbacks, September 1, 2002), cover price $3.99 | About this edition: When Possum, a grey creature who enjoys his cabbage, meets up with a multi-colored alien who dines on high voltage, an unexpected and special friendship forms in this easy reader with full-color illustrations.

School and Library:

9780689838354, titled "Alien & Possum: Friends No Matter What" | Simon & Schuster, September 1, 2001, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Possum and Alien become friends and find that they have both similarities and differences.

Library:

9781424209620, titled "Alien & Possum: Friends No Matter What" | Fitzgerald Books, January 1, 2007, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Possum is from Earth.

Reinforced:

9780606254076, titled "Alien & Possum: Friends No Matter What" | Demco Media, December 1, 2002, cover price $12.50 | About this edition: Possum is from Earth.

Prebinding:

9780613575652 | Turtleback Books, March 1, 1998, cover price $12.35 | About this edition: Possum and Alien become friends and find that they have both similarities and differences.

Product Description: Ready-to-Read Level 3 Reading Proficiently Rich vocabulary More-challenging stories Longer chapters Possum loves hanging upside down. It makes him feel new. When Alien tries hanging upside down, the electricity rushes to its head...read more

Paperback:

9780689857713 | Aladdin Paperbacks, May 1, 2003, cover price $11.99 | About this edition: Two good friends, Possum and Alien, spend time together celebrating their birthdays, discovering their uniqueness, and hanging out together in a tree.

School and Library:

9780689838361 | Simon & Schuster, May 1, 2002, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Two good friends, Possum and Alien, spend time together celebrating their birthdays, discovering their uniqueness, and hanging out together in a tree.

Library:

9781424209613 | Fitzgerald Books, January 1, 2007, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Ready-to-Read Level 3 Reading Proficiently Rich vocabulary More-challenging stories Longer chapters Possum loves hanging upside down.

Reinforced:

9780606278966 | Demco Media, April 1, 2002, cover price $12.50 | About this edition: Two good friends, Possum and Alien, spend time together celebrating their birthdays, discovering their uniqueness, and hanging out together in a tree.

Prebinding:

9780613663915 | Turtleback Books, December 1, 2003, cover price $15.12 | About this edition: Two good friends, Possum and Alien, spend time together celebrating their birthdays, discovering their uniqueness, and hanging out together in a tree.

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Isolated on her mountain, Amber meets and befriends a girl from the city who gives her the determination to learn to read and write
By Robert Duncan (illustrator) and Tony Johnston

Hardcover:

9780803712195 | Dial Books for Young Readers, June 1, 1994, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Isolated on her mountain, Amber meets and befriends a girl from the city who gives her the determination to learn to read and write

Paperback:

9780140564082 | Reprint edition (Puffin, May 1, 1998), cover price $6.99 | About this edition: Isolated on her mountain, Amber meets and befriends a girl from the city who gives her the determination to learn to read and write

Library:

9780803712201 | Dial Books for Young Readers, June 1, 1994, cover price $14.89 | About this edition: Isolated on her mountain, Amber meets and befriends a girl from the city who gives her the determination to learn to read and write

Reinforced:

9780606131193 | Reprint edition (Demco Media, May 1, 1998), cover price $15.81 | also contains Amber on the Mountain | About this edition: Isolated on her mountain, Amber meets and befriends a girl from the city who gives her the determination to learn to read and write

Prebinding:

9780613072281 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $17.20 | About this edition: Isolated on her mountain, Amber meets and befriends a girl from the city who gives her the determination to learn to read and write

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A collection of poems that reflects the culture, customs, daily life, and history of Mexico offers a tribute to the Mexico of the past and the Mexico of the present.
By Karen Barbour (illustrator) and Tony Johnston

Hardcover:

9780374303471 | 1 edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 2, 2003), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: A collection of poems reflecting the culture, customs, daily life, and history of Mexico.

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An old black man finds a baby abandoned in a dumpster and raises him in a rough Los Angeles neighborhood to know both African American and Mexican American ways.
By Carole M. Byard (illustrator) and Tony Johnston

School and Library:

9780399234057 | Philomel Books, June 15, 2006, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: An old black man finds a baby abandoned in a dumpster and raises him in a rough Los Angeles neighborhood to know both African American and Mexican American ways.

Arturo and his family and friends share all kinds of experiences living in the barrio of East Los Angeles--reclaiming their names, playing basketball, championing the school librarian, and even starting their own gang.

Paperback:

9780439233842 | Scholastic Paperbacks, June 1, 2003, cover price $5.99 | About this edition: Arturo and his family and friends share all kinds of experiences living in the barrio of East Los Angeles--reclaiming their names, playing basketball, championing the school librarian, and even starting their own gang.

School and Library:

9780439189361 | Blue Sky Pr, September 1, 2001, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Arturo and his family and friends share all kinds of experiences living in the barrio of East Los Angeles--reclaiming their names, playing basketball, championing the school librarian, and even starting their own gang.

Reinforced:

9780606282413 | Demco Media, April 1, 2002, cover price $13.59 | About this edition: Arturo and his family and friends share all kinds of experiences living in the barrio of East Los Angeles--reclaiming their names, playing basketball, championing the school librarian, and even starting their own gang.

Prebinding:

9781439519790 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, August 11, 2008), cover price $13.99
9780613674799 | Turtleback Books, December 1, 2003, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Arturo and his family and friends share all kinds of experiences living in the barrio of East Los Angeles--reclaiming their names, playing basketball, championing the school librarian, and even starting their own gang.

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Stealing the young goblins' magic fan, a badger makes a fortune after using the fan to make a rich girl's nose grow
By Tomie Depaola (illustrator) and Tony Johnston

School and Library:

9780399219450, titled "The Badger and the Magic Fan: A Japanese Folktale" | Putnam Pub Group, April 1, 1990, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Stealing the young goblins' magic fan, a badger makes a fortune after using the fan to make a rich girl's nose grow

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For at least one hundred years, generations of barn owls have slept, hunted, called, raised their young, and glided silently above the wheat fields around an old barn.

Paperback:

9780881069822, titled "The Barn Owls" | Charlesbridge Pub Inc, July 1, 2001, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: For at least 100 years, generations of barn owls have slept, hunted, called, raised their young, and glided silently above the wheat fields around an old barn.

School and Library:

9780881069815, titled "The Barn Owls" | Talewinds, February 1, 2000, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: For at least 100 years, generations of barn owls have slept, hunted, called, raised their young, and glided silently above the wheat fields around an old barn.

Prebinding:

9780613512367 | Turtleback Books, March 1, 2000, cover price $18.40 | About this edition: For at least 100 years, generations of barn owls have slept, hunted, called, raised their young, and glided silently above the wheat fields around an old barn.

The wind blows an apple off a tree, a worm eats a tiny hole in it, a bird pecks at it, and a boy eats it, spitting out the seeds--from which an apple tree grows.

Reinforced:

9780606185196 | Demco Media, November 1, 2000, cover price $12.50 | also contains Big Red Apple | About this edition: The wind blows an apple off a tree, a worm eats a tiny hole in it, a bird pecks at it, and a boy eats it, spitting out the seeds--from which an apple tree grows.

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This version of the familiar story in which a mistreated step-child finds happiness with the 'man' of her dreams is set in an old-growth forest and features Bigfoot characters.
By Tony Johnston and James Warhola (illustrator)

Paperback:

9780698118713 | Puffin, November 1, 2000, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: This version of the familiar story in which a mistreated step-child finds happiness with the 'man' of her dreams is set in an old-growth forest and features Bigfoot characters.
9780439083645 | Scholastic Educational, June 1, 1999, cover price $3.95 | About this edition: children

School and Library:

9780399230219 | Putnam Pub Group, October 1, 1998, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: This version of the familiar story in which a mistreated step-child finds happiness with the 'man' of her dreams is set in the old-growth forest and features Bigfoot characters

Prebinding:

9780613336734 | Turtleback Books, March 1, 2001, cover price $17.20 | About this edition: This version of the familiar story in which a mistreated step-child finds happiness with the 'man' of her dreams is set in an old-growth forest and features Bigfoot characters.

This version of the familiar story in which a mistreated step-child finds happiness with the 'man' of her dreams is set in an old-growth forest and features Bigfoot characters.

Reinforced:

9780606203487 | Demco Media, February 1, 2002, cover price $15.81 | About this edition: This version of the familiar story in which a mistreated step-child finds happiness with the 'man' of her dreams is set in an old-growth forest and features Bigfoot characters.

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Determined to see his son become a doctor, David's father teaches him the study of human bones at an early age, but when he discovers that his son is teaching his black friend the lessons he is learning, David's father uses threats and violence to end their relationship, in a moving tale set in Tennessee in the 1950s.

School and Library:

9781596431133 | Roaring Brook, August 7, 2007, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: In 1950s Tennessee, ten-year-old David's racist father refuses to let him associate with his best friend Malcolm, an African American boy.

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While reading about the ghost of Old Clara Clabber, a farmer hears spooky noises and lets his imagination get out of hand.
By Carolyn Croll (illustrator) and Tony Johnston

Paperback:

9780590379984 | Cartwheel Books, July 1, 1999, cover price $3.99 | About this edition: While reading about the ghost of Old Clara Clabber, a farmer hears spooky noises and lets his imagination get out of hand.

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Hating the color red from the moment he is taken away from his farm in a red truck, Bernardo the bull chases a fire truck that speeds by his field, with four-alarm results
By R. W. Alley (illustrator) and Tony Johnston

Paperback:

9780590475976 | Scholastic, September 1, 1996, cover price $3.99 | About this edition: A big, bulky, brave bull named Bernardo is infuriated by anything red.

Reinforced:

9780606111737 | Demco Media, September 1, 1996, cover price $11.30 | About this edition: A big, bulky, brave bull named Bernardo is infuriated by anything red.

Prebinding:

9780613002707 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: A big, bulky, brave bull named Bernardo is infuriated by anything red.

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Rhyming text describes the behavior and characteristics of cats.
By Tony Johnston and Wendell Minor (illustrator)

Hardcover:

9780060277420 | Harpercollins Childrens Books, August 1, 2001, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Rhyming text describes the behavior and characteristics of cats.

Paperback:

9781567923513 | David R Godine Pub, May 16, 2008, cover price $9.95 | also contains Cat, What Is That?

Library:

9780060277437 | Harpercollins, August 1, 2001, cover price $16.89 | About this edition: Rhyming text describes the behavior and characteristics of cats.

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By Christine Davenier (illustrator) and Tony Johnston

School and Library:

9781580893817 | Charlesbridge Pub Inc, August 1, 2013, cover price $16.95

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Having lost something very important to her, a frantic chicken begins a thorough search of a very busy kitchen--causing chaos and destruction as she proceeds by flipping pans, breaking bowls, and turning the entire place inside-out along the way.
By Tony Johnston and Eleanor Taylor (illustrator)

School and Library:

9780689856419 | Simon & Schuster, January 25, 2005, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: When a crazy chicken wreaks havoc in the kitchen there is just one thing to do--prepare a nest so that she will settle down.

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When the blood-sucking chizzywink (mosquito) flies into the house, its residents know they must outwit him in order to get him out, and devise a plan that includes putting a powerful dose of alamagoozlum (maple syrup) to use.
By Robert Bender (illustrator) and Tony Johnston

Hardcover:

9780688134594 | Tambourine, April 1, 1997, cover price $25.01 | About this edition: Zeke and Zelda must try to deal with the large mosquito that is keeping them awake by calling for their sweet blood.
9780688135393 | Tambourine, April 1, 1997, cover price $25.01 | About this edition: Zeke and Zelda must try to deal with the large mosquito that is keeping them awake by calling for their sweet blood.

School and Library:

9780823413591 | Holiday House, March 1, 1998, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A huge mosquito keeps Zeke and Zelda awake, until Zelda finds a way to quiet the persistent pest

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A child anticipates the arrival of an old man in red, smelling of pine, spreading crinkling presents late at night.
By Tony Johnston and Guy Porfirio (illustrator)

Hardcover:

9780873587853 | Rising Moon, July 1, 2001, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A child anticipates the arrival of an old man in red, smelling of pine, spreading crinkling presents late at night.

In this adaptation of 'The Princess and the Pea,' the wealthy daughter of a Texas rancher devises a plan to find a real cowboy among her many suitors
By Tony Johnston and Warren Ludwig (illustrator)

Paperback:

9780698113565 | Reprint edition (Puffin, April 1, 1996), cover price $6.99 | About this edition: In this adaptation of 'The Princess and the Pea,' the wealthy daughter of a Texas rancher devises a plan to find a real cowboy among her many suitors

School and Library:

9780399223303, titled "Cowboy and the Black-Eyed Pea" | Putnam Pub Group, October 1, 1992, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: In this adaptation of 'The Princess and the Pea,' the wealthy daughter of a Texas rancher devises a plan to find a real cowboy among her many suitors

Reinforced:

9780606091657 | Demco Media, April 1, 1996, cover price $14.70 | About this edition: In this adaptation of 'The Princess and the Pea,' the wealthy daughter of a Texas rancher devises a plan to find a real cowboy among her many suitors

Prebinding:

9780613236003 | Turtleback Books, May 1, 2000, cover price $17.20 | About this edition: In this adaptation of 'The Princess and the Pea,' the wealthy daughter of a Texas rancher devises a plan to find a real cowboy among her many suitors

Rabbit outwits Coyote in this Zapotec tale which explains why coyotes howl at the moon.
By Tomie dePaola (illustrator) and Tony Johnston

Reinforced:

9780606133623 | Reprint edition (Demco Media, May 1, 1998), cover price $13.86 | About this edition: In a Mexican trickster tale, Rabbit outwits hungry Coyote

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