Grade 4–8—O'Conner has produced a grammar guide for children using the witty, lighthearted style that made Woe Is I (Putnam, 1996) so popular. She covers pronouns, plurals, possessives, verb usage, subject-verb agreement, capitalization, and punctuation with jargon-free explanations and entertaining examples (Shrek, Count Olaf, Garfield, and Harry Potter all put in appearances). A…
Ms. Frizzle's class is growing a beautiful garden. But Phoebe's favorite flower is back at her old school. So, the class climbs aboard the Magic School Bus. And, of course, the kids don't only go back to Phoebe's school but they go inside one of Phoebe's
Emily Arrow may be a poor reader, but she's terrific in math and is also the fastest runner in her class. In October, school gets even better when a new commer from Florida, dawn Bosco joins the class and sits next to her. When Emily sees that Dawn is a better reader and a faster runner, she tries to accept it with grace. But then Emily discovers something awful, Dawn is a thief.
That spaceship is Earth, and it has everything on board that we need to survive: water, food, and air with oxygen. Unlike a space shuttle, Earth is able to renew its resources.'
From stone tablets to cell phones, from the days of ancient civilizations to today's modern world and the quest to organize time and lives, the book investigates the development and evolution of one of the world's most important tools.'
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If telling the truth is the right thing to do, why is the whole world mad at Libby?
Stacy Arrow's first day of school isn't going well at all. She was only trying to help when she told Jiwon, the girl with black hair, that her drawing of herself looked like a cow. And she didn't mean to scare her with stories about man-eating snake. Now Jiwon refuses to be Stacy's best friend. What's Stacy doing wrong?