reading materials

The Heffley family road trip starts off full of promise, then quickly takes several wrong turns, with everything from a fender bender to crazed seagulls, but even the worst road trip can turn into an adventure, and this is one the Heffleys will not soon forget.

The adventures of a little boy in the city on a very snowy day.

Sixth-grader and self-proclaimed genius Nate Wright faces his all-time enemy, Gina, when they are paired to work on a research paper together and she also gets a position on his intramural team.

Middle-schooler Nate Wright vies against his rival, the "perfect" Artur, to win the grand prize of a customized skateboard in their scout troop contest.

Charlie Joe Jackson is back and he's at academic summer camp trying to convert all the other kids to non-academics.

Biography that explores the life of conservationist John Muir, who became known as the father of the U.S. national park system.

A family living in the Appalachian Mountains in the 1930s gets books to read during the regular visits of the "Book Woman"--a librarian who rides a pack horse through the mountains, lending books to the isolated residents.

Each time the doorbell rings, there are more people who have come to share Ma's wonderful cookies.

After her overprotective grandmother has a stroke, Maya, an orphan, leaves her extremely restricted life in California to stay with her mother's family on a remote Wyoming ranch, where she discovers a love of horses and encounters a wild mare that her mother once rode.

A beautiful cockroach is courted by many suitors, but she is only interested in the mouse, Perez.