The Westing Game

For over twenty-five years, Ellen Raskin's Newbery Medal-winning The Westing Game has been an enduring favorite. It has sold over one and a half million copies. This highly inventive mystery involves sixteen people who are invited to the reading of Samuel W. Westing's will. They could become millionaires—it all depends on how they play the tricky and dangerous Westing game, a game involving b…

Students in Space : Activity Book

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9780194401609

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14p; ill; bw; pbk

Series Title

Oxford Dolphin Readers level 3

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New Girl in School : Activity Book

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ISBN/ISSN

9780194401623

Collation

14p; ill; bw; pbk

Series Title

Oxford Dolphin Readers level 3

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A Day with Baby : Activity book

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ISBN/ISSN

9780194401395

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18p; ill; col; pbk

Series Title

Oxford Dolphin Readers level Starter

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Mr. Popper's Penguin

A classic of American humor, the adventures of a house painter and his brood of high-stepping penguins have delighted children for generations. "Here is a book to read aloud in groups of all ages. There is not an extra or misplaced word in the whole story."--"The Horn Book." Newbery Honor Book.

Holes

As an elementary school librarian, I have been disappointed with many of the recent Newbery Medal winning books, mainly because it seemed like adults were selecting books that they thought young people SHOULD read. Many recent Newbery winning books just sit on our shelves.Therefore, when I added "Holes" to our collection, simply because it had received the medal, I expected to see yet another t…

The Dragon of Lonely Island

Grade 3-6-Because their mother needs a quiet place to finish her novel, the three Davis children find themselves spending the summer in a Victorian house on a small island off the coast of Maine. A mysterious letter from their elderly Great Aunt Mehitabel, absentee owner of Lonely Island, helps the siblings discover Fafnyr Goldenwings, a three-headed dragon that sleeps deep inside a cave on Dra…

The Best School Year Ever

The Herdmans are the most famous kids at Woodrow Wilson School. In fact, they are the most famous kids in the whole town-and they are worst kids in the history of the world.

The Westing Game

A bizarre chain of events begins when sixteen unlikely people gather for the reading of Samuel W. Westing's will. And though no one knows why the eccentric, game-loving millionaire has chosen a virtual stranger-and a possible murdered- to inherit his vast fortune, one thing's for sure : Sam Westing may be dead... but that won't stop him from playeing one last game!

The Secret Speech

The Soviet Union 1956: after Stalin's death, a violent regime is beginning to fracture. It leaves behind a society where the police are the criminals, and the criminals are innocent. Stalin's successor Khrushchev pledges reform. But there are forces at work that are unable to forgive or forget the past. Leo Demidov, former MGB officer, is facing his own turmoil. The two young girls he and hi…