Miss Alaineus

When Sages spelling and definition of a word reveal her misunderstanding of it to her classmates, she is at first embarrassed but then uses her mistake as inspiration for the vocabulary parade. Full color.

Letters of the alphabet in various graphic styles accompany words associated with fairs.

The kids from "Miss Alaineus: A Vocabulary Disaster" are back and they're putting on a neighborhood play starring the world's most astonishing combination of atoms--H2O. Filled with scientific facts about water, readers can join in the kids' wet-and-wild celebration. Full color.

Thesaurus Rex is a playful young dinosaur with a way with words. He especially likes trying out synonyms as he plays all day.

A young girl and her mother walk along the beach and marvel at the treasures cast up by the sea and the wonders of the world around them.

A lyrical recipe uses seasonal changes to explain to a child the time that passes between one birthday and the next. Includes a recipe for more traditional birthday cake, as well as information about the passage of time and how it is revealed through trees.

The Earth celebrates the birth of a newborn baby, as around the planet the moon pulls, the tides rise, and the rain falls.

For fans of Gary Schmidt and Joan Bauer, a laugh-out-loud intergenerational road trip story from acclaimed author Paul Acampora! Since the death of his grandfather, Leo's number one chore has been to chase after his grandmother who seems to wander away from home every few days. Now, Gram's decided to roam farther than ever. And despite his misgivings, Leo's going along for the ride. With his seventeen-year-old cousin, Abbey, and an old, gassy dog named Kermit, Leo joins Gram in a big, old Buick to leave their Pennsylvania home for a cross-country road trip filled with fold-out maps, family secrets, new friends, and dinosaur bones.How to Avoid Extinction is a middle grade comedy about death and food and family and fossils. It's about running away from home and coming back again. For Leo, it's about asking hard questions and hopefully finding some sensible answers. As if good sense has anything to do with it. Against a backdrop of America's stunning size and beauty, it's also about growing up, getting old, dreaming about immortality, and figuring out all the things we can -- and can't -- leave behind.