Author: Loreen Leedy
Publisher: Holiday House
Keywords: story, simile, fox, crazy
Number of Pages: 31
Published: 2009-07-01
List price: $6.95
ISBN-10: 0823422488
ISBN-13: 9780823422487

Similes set off an exciting chase scene in an adventure in language arts. Rufus the fox is up to something. He runs across the meadow as fast as lightning, sneaks up to Babette like a thief in the night, and roars like a lion. Babette, mad as a hornet, chases Rufus all over town. But is Rufus being chased or is he actually leading Babette to a surprise destination? Rufus sure is crazy--crazy like a fox! Sure to make the reader as happy as a clam, this bright simile story also includes a clear explanation of similes and shows how to include similes in a story.

Author: Gail Gibbons
Publisher: Holiday House
Keywords: owls
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2005-03
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0823418804
ISBN-13: 9780823418800

Gail Gibbons explores the mysterious world and workings of owls in her latest nonfiction picture book. She depicts numerous species of owls and discusses their biological similarities as well as their differences. She portrays their ideal habitats, life styles, birth and development and environmental hazards that are threatening certain species. As usual, her comprehensive text is accompanied by clearly labelled illustrations and diagrams. Definitions are also included for additional clarity.

Author: John Updike
Publisher: Holiday House
Keywords: calendar, child
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 1999-09
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0823414450
ISBN-13: 9780823414451

A collection of twelve poems describing the activities in a child’s life and the changes in the weather as the year moves from January to December.

Author: Betsy Cromer Byars
Publisher: Holiday House (P)
Keywords: family, book, blossom, anybody
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2008-01-02
List price: $7.95
ISBN-10: 0823421457
ISBN-13: 9780823421459

When Junior Blossom wakes up in the hospital, his last memory is of crouching on the barn roof with cloth wings tied to his arms, and of Maggie and Vern in the yard below, urging him to fly. That had been just before Junior spotted a police car approaching the farm in a cloud of dust. Meanwhile Pap, the children’s grandfather, sits in disgrace in the city jail. He was arrested for disturbing the peace after his pickup truck accidentally dumped 2,147 beer and soda cans (worth $107.35) on Spring Street. With their mother away on the rodeo circuit, it’s up to Maggie and Vern to fi

Authors:Robin Pulver,  Lynn Rowe Reed,
Publisher: Holiday House
Keywords: day, field, verbs, nouns
Number of Pages: 28
Published: 2007-07-30
List price: $6.95
ISBN-10: 0823420973
ISBN-13: 9780823420971

It’s Field Day in Mr. Wright’s class and not just for the students. Nouns and verbs are inventing their own games in this companion to "Punctuation Takes A Vacation."

Authors:Robin Pulver,  Lynn Rowe Reed,
Publisher: Holiday House
Keywords: clear, loud, letters, silent
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2008-09-15
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0823421279
ISBN-13: 9780823421275

Another dynamic grammar book that will appeal to both new and experienced spellers. Wretched...dumb...a pain! Nr, Wright’s class is tired of silent letters. The students can’t hear them. They make spelling too tricky. Should silent letters be banned forever? A companion to "Punctuation Take a Vacation" and "Nouns and Verbs Have a Field Day".

Author: Walter Dean Myers
Publisher: Holiday House
Keywords: jazz
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 2008-08
List price: $8.95
ISBN-10: 0823421732
ISBN-13: 9780823421732

This smash-hit picture book of jazz music poems, from award-winning father-don team Walter Dean Myers and Christopher Myers, is now available in paperback. There’s a crazy syncopation /and it’s tearing through the nation / and it’s bringing sweet elation / to every single tune./ It’s Jazz/ From bebop to New Orleans, from ragtime to boogie, and every style in between, this collection of Walter Dean Myers’s energetic and engaging poems, accompanied by Christopher Myers’s bright and exhilarating paintings, celebrates different styles of the American art f