Big Max and the Mystery of the Missing Giraffe

Big Max and the Mystery of the Missing Giraffe
Author: Kin Platt
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 74
Release: 2005-05
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0060099186

Big Max, the world's greatest detective, must travel to the land of Ah-Ah-Achoo to find the king's missing pet giraffe.

Big Max

Big Max
Author: Kin Platt
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1992-04
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780812428841

The world's greatest detective solves another crime.

Zack's Alligator

Zack's Alligator
Author: Shirley Mozelle
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 68
Release: 1995-01-19
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0064441865

When Bridget the alligator arrives in the mail, she's only the size of a key chain! But after Zack soaks her in water, she grows into a real live alligator. Bridget wrestles the garden hose and swings from the monkey bars. And what other alligator can do cartwheels? Children's Books of 1989 (Library of Congress)

Put Me In the Zoo

Put Me In the Zoo
Author: Robert Lopshire
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 23
Release: 2001-11-27
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0375812156

They say a leopard can’t change his spots–but Spot sure can! Babies and toddlers will love pointing out the colors of his changing spots in this delightful, rhyming adaptation of Robert Lopshire’s classic Bright and Early Book.

Dirt on My Shirt: Selected Poems

Dirt on My Shirt: Selected Poems
Author: Jeff Foxworthy
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 33
Release: 2009-10
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0061765252

In this hilarious collection of poems, comedian Jeff Foxworthy creates a neighborhood filled with fun, family, friends, and more. Here you'll meet Cousin Lizzy, Uncle Ed and Aunt Foo Foo, cows with horns that don't go beep, dads in sweaters, also sheep. From the thrill of flying to the imaginary planet Woosocket to bonding with a friend over a shared hatred of spinach, these poems capture the very essence of being a kid. Filled with sly humor and always affectionate, "Dirt on My Shirt" is sure to delight kids, big and little, everywhere.

The Blue Man

The Blue Man
Author: Kin Platt
Publisher:
Total Pages: 185
Release: 1961
Genre: Detective and mystery stories
ISBN:

Aunt Eater Loves a Mystery

Aunt Eater Loves a Mystery
Author: Doug Cushman
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 66
Release: 1989-03-09
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0064441261

CenterFour Aunt Eater Mysteries! A stolen traveling bag . . . A mysterious black shadow on the wall . . . A thief next door . . . A disappearing cat . . . Don't worry, Aunt Eater is on the case.

Leveled Books (K-8)

Leveled Books (K-8)
Author: Irene C. Fountas
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2006
Genre: Education
ISBN:

For ten years and in two classic books, Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell have described how to analyze the characteristics of texts and select just-right books to use for guided reading instruction. Now, for the first time, all of their thinking and research has been updated and brought together into Leveled Books, K-8 to form the ultimate guide to choosing and using books from kindergarten through middle school. Fountas and Pinnell take you through every aspect of leveled books, describing how to select and use them for different purposes in your literacy program and offering prototype descriptions of fiction and nonfiction books at each level. They share advice on: the role of leveled books in reading instruction, analyzing the characteristics of fiction and nonfiction texts, using benchmark books to assess instructional levels for guided reading, selecting books for both guided and independent reading, organizing high-quality classroom libraries, acquiring books and writing proposals to fund classroom-library purchases, creating a school book room. In addition, Fountas and Pinnell explain the leveling process in detail so that you can tentatively level any appropriate book that you want to use in your instruction. Best of all, Leveled Books, K-8 is one half of a new duo of resources that will change how you look at leveled books. Its companion-www.FountasandPinnellLeveledBooks.com-is a searchable and frequently updated website that includes more than 18,000 titles. With Leveled Books, K-8 you'll know how and why to choose books for your readers, and with www.FountasandPinnellLeveledBooks.com, you'll have the ideal tool at your fingertips for finding appropriate books for guided reading. Book jacket.

Sophie's World

Sophie's World
Author: Jostein Gaarder
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 599
Release: 2007-03-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1466804270

A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.