Nadja Sarell

Frankie Sparks, the self-proclaimed "best inventor in the third grade," does research and creates a tool to try to persuade her classmates that a rat would make the best class pet.

"Ever since Stanley Lambchop was flattened by a bulletin board, each day brings new adventures! According to Stanley's second grade teacher, Ms. Root, everyone in classroom 2E is a scientist. That's good news for Stanley because he has a problem in need of solving! Both his classmate, Josie, and his little brother, Arthur, think he's been using his flatness to cheat during playground games. But Stanley can't help being flat! It's time to test how...

Lyrical rhyming text and colorful illustrations follow Santa Claus on his vacation to Tennessee, but he doesn't heed Mrs. Claus's advice to keep it on the down low, and multiple kids see his face and the North Pole is inundated with letters.

Frankie Sparks uses her inventing skills to help her friend overcome stage fright in this second chapter book in the STEM inspired Frankie Sparks, Third-Grade Inventor series. It's time for the annual school talent show, and Frankie is excited to audition with her magic act! She wants to be just like her idol, Adelaide Herrmann, Queen of Magic. But on the day of the audition, Frankie's best friend and Magician's Assistant, Maya, gets a big, scary...

Career Day is on Monday. Join Mila, a spunky imaginative girl who is deaf and uses cochlear implants to hear, as she spends the weekend exploring all the things she wants to be when she grows up! Will she figure out her perfect dream job in time?