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Everyone loves chocolate chip cookies! But not everyone knows where they came from. Meet Ruth Wakefield, the talented chef and entrepreneur who started a restaurant, wrote a cookbook, and invented this delicious dessert st how did she do it, you ask? That's where things get messy!

A very little bulldozer learns that taking care of kittens is a very big job in this darling follow-up to Bulldozer's Big Day from award-winning author Candace Fleming and Caldecott Medalist Eric Rohmann.The construction site bustled. Cement Truck was stirring...stirring...stirring. Digger Truck was scooping...scooping...scooping. Crane Truck was lifting...lifting...lifting. And Bulldozer was?watching...watching...watching. Little Bulldozer wants to help, but all the bigger trucks say he is too small. So when Crane Truck says he can clear a bit of debris out of the way, Little Bulldozer is eager for the job. He can do it, yes he can. What he doesn't expect is to find a family of newborn kittens living in the pile of debris! Can he take care of babies? Now that's a tough job. A job that happens to be just the right size for Little Bulldozer.

Asks readers to think about ways in which the natural world has provided for them, by exploring all the different elements of a house and where each came from, once.

The four book school story series by the multimillion-copy bestselling author of Frindle and Extra Credit, Andrew Clements.I’m Jake—Jake Drake. I’ve seen a whole lot of craziness while in third and fourth grade. I’ve duked it out for first place in the science fair (against my best friend!), I’ve seen bullies—ok, I’ve been bullied—I’ve been mistaken for a teacher’s pet (seriously, it was all a big misunderstanding!), and I’ve even been the class clown (ok that one I’m not so proud of). I’ve rounded up all my adventures in school right here for you. Check it out! And hopefully you’ll have better third and fourth grade luck than I did!

Nothing can separate a boy and his dog.A boy. A raggedy pup. The pup's mean as a rattlesnake owner. A dad who no how no way wants a dog in the house. This is how it all begins in Phyllis Reynolds Naylor’s Newbery Award—winning novel, Shiloh. When Marty rescues Shiloh from his cruel owner, determined to keep him safe, even hiding the dog from his own father, he never realizes that it will be Shiloh who will keep HIM safe, again and again. Here together for the first time are all four Shiloh novels, the Lassie for a new generation. Full off adventure, heart, and the best kind of friendship, the Shiloh novels are American classics.

"Ruthie has a problem at school. It is the Snurtch. The Snurtch is a scribbly, grabby, rude monster who follows Ruthie around and gets her into all sorts of trouble. It seems Ruthie will never be rid of the Snurtch. But eventually, she realizes she's not the only one--George has one, too"--

Describes the seasonal changes on a farm and surrounding countryside throughout the year.

Members of a large group of animals, including a penguin, two rabbits, and a koala, disappear at an alarming rate--but a hungry lion remains.

When the glass kingdom begins cracking, the king and queen fail in their quest to get help from the fairy Bloom, who can work great magic but was banished because of her muddy boots and messiness, so they send Genevieve, an ordinary girl who will do what it takes to save the day.

A celebration of mermaids, wildernesses of waves, and the creatures of the deep through poems by Langston Hughes and cut-paper collage illustrations by Ashley Bryan.

"Fox and her friends are building a playhouse. Everything goes smoothly until bossy Moose tromps in and tries to be in charge of everything. When Moose's bossing causes the project to go awry, can the friends work as a team to come up with a solution?"--

Even hairy, scary monsters need friends! This heartwarming tale of unlikely playmates features bright artwork and a sweet message from the author-illustrator of Hey, Presto! and Good Little Wolf.Deep in the forest lives the biggest, hairiest, scariest yeti anyone has ever seen. And he is also the loneliest yeti around. Then one day…THUNK! Someone lands on Yeti’s head. And that someone isn’t scared of Yeti at all. Could that someone be a friend? This fun story of fur, feathers, and friendship delights and inspires—a welcome reminder that friends can be found in even the most improbable places.

The reader is invited to count hungry crows as they hunt for savory snacks.

Can anyone predict the future? Meet twelve mind-boggling personalities who seemed to know how. Among them are: The ancient Maya, who invented a remarkably accurate calendar that gave a date for the end of the world: December 21, 2012. Leonardo da Vinci, the great artist, who drew detailed sketches of tanks, machine guns, and helicopters...four centuries before they were invented. Nostradumus, the sixteenth-century French doctor whose amazing predictions included the rise of Adolf Hitler. Jeane Dixon, a wealthy socialite who, on November 22, 1963, looked into her lunch of eggs florentine and announced, "Something dreadful is going to happen to the president today." Did they always get it right? How did they know? Were they psychic? Or did they simply combine knowledge, sensitivity, inspiration, and some good old-fashioned luck to see into the unknown? Kathleen Krull and Kyrsten Brooker's entertaining and enlightening book may just hold the answers to these and other fascinating questions.

Stunning illustrations and poetic text fill the pages of this enchanting picture book that celebrates nature and its evocative, peaceful beauty.