A rhythmic text with repetitive phrases relates how the children watch Mama make soup and go with Papa to get tortillas before enjoying the results of her labor. Presented in English and Spanish.
Angelina the mouse loves dancing with her friends at Miss Lilly's Ballet School, zooming up and down on roller coasters, being in the comforting arms of her mother, and hearing her father play the fiddle.
Fifth-grader Piper and her sisters are thrilled about their first-ever camping trip until they learn it will be at Halloween, but other Navy families join them, including an annoying new member of the Gypsy Club.
Frustrated because the rules for her class's Pet Day will not let her take her dog to school, Junie B. Jones considers taking a raccoon, a worm, a dead fish, and other unusual replacements.
Describes an imaginary journey through the night sky, from joining Orion on a hunt to hitching up the North Star for a ride, and includes facts about astronomy, the solar system, and constellations.
In 1975, twelve-year-old Richard befriends Napolean, a Caribbean newcomer to his Catholic school, hoping that Napolean will learn to love baseball and the Red Sox, and will win acceptance in the racially polarized Boston school.
