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It’s raining, it’s pouring—this weather is anything but boring! In this lively fiction title, readers join a young narrator on a rainy day. Through engaging language and colorful illustrations, readers learn about indoor and outdoor activities that take place on a rainy day, and the importance of using your imagination! Readers meet a delightful cast of characters, who will encourage them to draw connections between the narrative and the friends and family in their own lives.

Winner at the 2012 Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards. A subtle, deceptively simple book about the relationship between a kid and his Grandfather, suffering from Alzeimer’s. Love and understanding are often the best tools for dealing with this problem. And who better to help than a mischievous grandson? Grandpa Monty is a bit confused: he tries to roast the chicken inside the washing machine, he gets towels mixed up with napkins, gloves mixed up with socks, and he’s always forgetting my name! My mom and uncle Andrew are worried things could get worse, so they decided it was best if Grandpa ...

Diego va a un safari en África. Pero todos los elefantes se han convertido en rocas debido a las acciones de una hechicera. Entonces Diego anda en una misión de rescate para salvar a los elefantes y, al mismo tiempo, descubre en el camino a muchos otros animales.

'Come, Jameela. Stand right here. I need to do something.' I grab hold of his sleeve. 'Where are you going?' His face is twisted. He doesn't look at me. 'Never mind.' Jameela lives with her family in a war-torn village in Afghanistan. Life is hard, but when her mother dies, and her father remarries, Jameela has to face a greater horror. To survive she draws on the strong sense of self that her mother gave her. Based on a real girl called Sameela, and a real orphanage, this unforgettable novel tells the story of a devout Muslim girl and what life is really like in post-Taliban Afghanistan....