Nancy Elizabeth Wallace continues to explore difficult topics while making them more accessible to young readers with her signature cut-paper illustrations and, in this book, photographs from NASA. Minna is a stargazer. She looks at the nighttime sky and wonders, What are stars? Minna's friends wonder about stars too. How far away are they? Are they really shaped like stars? Is the sun a star? …
Little Kitten can't purr so she asks Dog whether he has her purr but he only has his woof. Perhaps Cow has her purr? Or Sheep? One by one, Little Kitten asks all the animals in the farmyard but no one has her purr. Where ever can it be?
It's Arnold turn to take care of Liz, the class pet, for the weekend. And he and Keesha are taking Liz to a rock collection show. Bur Arnold has so many rocks that he can't decide how to organize them! Leave it to Liz to come up with some really fun ways
Meet Invisible Inc. Chip is invisible, Justin reads lips and Charlene is very good at figuring things out. Together they solve mysteries and have fun.'
from the back cover: Marilla Cuthbert and her brother Matthew want to adopt an orphan, to help on the farm at Green Gables. They ask for a boy, but they get Anne, who has red hair and freckles, and who talks and talks. They didn;t want a girl, but how can gthey send a child back, like an unwanted parcel? So Anne stays, and begins a new life in the sleepy, quiet village of Avonlea in Canada. …