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Unhappy queen-in-training Cora receives a pet crocodile from her fairy godmother, who disrupts her mundane daily routine.

Anne Ursu, author of the National Book Award nominee The Real Boy, returns with a story of the power of fantasy, the limits of love, and the struggles inherent in growing up. When you're an identical twin, your story always starts with someone else. For Iris, that means her story starts with Lark. Iris has always been the grounded, capable, and rational one; Lark has been inventive, dreamy, and brilliant--and from their first moments in the world...

After celebrating their first nine same-day birthdays together, Amanda and Leo, having fallen out on their tenth and not speaking to each other for the last year, prepare to celebrate their eleventh birthday separately but peculiar things begin to happen as the day of their birthday begins to repeat itself over and over again.

"Marley has two new friends in the house -- the new kittens, Lucky and Yow-Yow! As the king of the castle, Marley enjoys showing the kittens a few life lessons. Marley shows the kittens where to wait for Cassie to come home from school and where not to sniff, like Baby Louie's diaper! The kittens show Marley a few things too, like how to pounce and how to scratch. But when Marley is scared by a thunderstorm, he may find that he doesn't know everything...

The assignment: If you could give someone in your life the perfect present--just one gift--what would it be? Some students answer right away. A few take more time to consider. Certain choices spark lively conversation; others are revealed only in private journal pages. But all are as heartfelt as they are unexpected. In accessible verse that highlights transformative moments of connection, Linda Sue Park celebrates the ways--big and small, obvious...

When Katie Honors feels angry and out of control, her mother helps her to be herself again.

Simple text asks the readers a series of questions about the characters on each page, and the child must decipher the visual clues to find the answer.

After burning their Thanksgiving dinner, Ann and Ed head for the local cafe, where they are welcomed by an immigrant family into an unusual celebration that gives everyone cause to be thankful.

After getting so bundled up that he can hardly move, Hubie tries to enjoy his snow day off from school.

A young girl feels a pea through twenty mattresses and twenty featherbeds and proves that she is a real princess.