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Because Your Daddy Loves You (Board Book) by Andrew Clements; R. W. Alley (Illustrator)
Category: Education
Now in a sturdy board book format, the classic Because Your Daddy Loves You makes the perfect gift--whether you're celebrating Father's Day, a new dad, or just the special bond between a father and child . . . any old day of the year!A day spent with a young child at the beach can be eventful--a lost sh ...Show more
Big Al by Andrew Clements
Category: Picture Books
Poor Big Al He just wants to make friends. And in the whole wide blue sea you can't find a nicer fish. But because Big Al is large and scary-looking, the little fish are afraid to get to know him. What can he do? He tries everything he can think of -- from disguising himself with seaweed to burrowing un ...Show more
Dogku by Andrew Clements
Category: Picture Books
A tale in haiku of one adorable dog. Let's find him a home .
Frindle by Andrew Clements
Category: Fiction
From bestselling and award-winning author Andrew Clements, a quirky, imaginative tale about creative thought and the power of words that will have readers inventing their own words.Is Nick Allen a troublemaker? He really just likes to liven things up at school -- and he's always had plenty of great idea ...Show more
Frindle - Special Edition by Andrew Clements; Brian Selznick (Illustrator)
Category: Children's Fiction
What if one day you decided to stop calling a word like pen "pen" and started calling it something else--like "frindle"? When Nicholas Allen does just that, and encourages all of his friends to start using the new word, his experiment turns the town upside down. An imaginative tale about creative though ...Show more
Jake Drake, Class Clown by Andrew Clements
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: Jake Drake
Knock, knock. Who's there? Jake. Jake who? Jake Drake, Class Clown. Miss Bruce is the new student teacher in second grade, and she never smiles. Never. But when Jake cracks up the class during a spelling bee, he sees the tiniest hint of a smile at the corner of her mouth. Suddenly, Jake has a new missi ...Show more
Jake Drake, Know-It-All by Andrew Clements
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: Jake Drake
MEET JAKE DRAKE, KNOW-IT-ALL Jake Drake is excited about Despres Elementary School's first science fair. He wants to win the grand prize: a brand-new Hyper-Cross-Functional Bluntium Twelve computer system. And he really wants to beat the third-grade know-it-alls, Marsha McCall and Kevin Young. The tr ...Show more
Jake Drake, Teacher's Pet by Andrew Clements
Category: Children's Fiction
Mrs. Snavin looked right past all those waving hands. She looked right at me and she smiled and said, "I think I'll have Jake take it." Then Mrs. Snavin said, "but be sure to hurry right back, Jake, because we're going to work on our number-line project, and you have to be my "special" computer helper, ...Show more
Lunch Money by Andrew Clements
Category: Children's Fiction
Greg Kenton has always had a talent for making money. His latest scheme, creating and selling miniature comic books, looks to be a success. However, problems arise when his classmate and longtime nemesis, Maura, competes with him by making her own mini-stories. Even worse, the principal, who believes th ...Show more
Million Dots by Andrew Clements
Category: Picture Books
It's a long way to a million, right? Of course it is. But do you really know what a million looks like? If you'd like to see -- actually see, right now, with your own eyes -- what a million looks like, just open this book. Be prepared to learn some interesting things along the way. Like how many shoe bo ...Show more
Room One by Clements, Andrew
Category: Children's Fiction
Ted Hammond is the only sixth-grader in his one-room school. He's smack dab in the middle between four eighth-graders and four fourth-graders. His singular status gives him plenty of time to pursue his passion, solving mysteries. His deductive skills have been honed through the careful solving of every ...Show more
Teacher's Pet by Andrew Clements
Category: Children's Fiction
Jake doesn't mean to be a teacher's pet !! It just happens. Jake figures a little misbehaviour might take care of his goody goody image