A.J. and his classmates are convinced that the new school librarian, Mrs. Roopy, has multiple personality disorder because she keeps pretending to be famous people.

A skateboarding principal offers unusual incentives to his students to motivate them to learn more.

"After Tate falls into a magic well in her backyard, she can read a book in minutes. But she's strangely attracted to water of all sorts and can't always control her magic"-- Provided by publisher.

Characters perform motor activities and exercise the entire body as they celebrate all the ways to wave goodbye by using elbows, lips, hair, and finally hands.

A picture book about the strength and beauty of nature and family. A small bear cub exploring with its mother expresses how it wants to be big and strong because there's nothing bigger or stronger than a bear. However, the cub's mother disagrees, and shows the cub the size, strength, and beauty of the river, while teaching the cub how to pick berries, fish patiently, and find the perfect tree for scratching.

A young slave boy risks his life to learn how to read and, with the unsuspecting help of a teacher from the North, begins to realize his dream.

Atlas James has lost her way. In a last-ditch effort to pull her life together, she's working on a community service program rehabbing trails in the Western Sierras. The only plus is that the days are so exhausting that Atlas might just be tired enough to forget that this was one of her dad's favorite places in the world. Before cancer stole him from her life, that is. Using real names is forbidden on the trail. So Atlas becomes Maps, and with her...

Zoe is sure that she can be anything she wants to be, despite a little voice of doubt that points out the problems with her ideas--but first she needs to learn how to read.

"This book uses learning to tie a shoe as a metaphor for personal growth and experiential learning, with the beauty and challenges that accompany both"--OCLC.

Max learns that brains work in different and interesting ways!