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Splat the cat is worried that he has not been good enough to deserve a visit and a present from Santa Claus.

"Eleven-year-old Brooklyn girl Delphine feels overwhelmed with worries and responsibilities. She's just started sixth grade and is self-conscious about being the tallest girl in the class, and nervous about her first school dance. She's supposed to be watching her sisters, but Fern and Vonetta are hard to control. Her uncle Darnell is home from Vietnam and seems different. And her pa has a girlfriend. At least Delphine can write to her mother in Oakland,...

The noisy fifth grade boys of Laketon Elementary School challenge the equally loud fifth grade girls to a "no talking" contest.

The concept of bucket filling is an effective metaphor for encouraging kind and considerate behavior and for teaching the benefits of positive relationships. Updated and revised, this 10th anniversary edition will help readers better understand that "bucket dipping" is a negative behavior, not a permanent label. It also explains that it's possible to fill or dip into our own buckets.

The King, tired of rain, snow, sun, and fog, commands his magicians to make something else come down from the sky, but when oobleck falls, in sticky greenish droplets, Bartholomew Cubbins shames the King and saves the kingdom.

Miss Fannie is ninety-nine years old. And very small. In fact, now that she's old, she's grown to be about the same size she was as a little girl. Now Miss Fannie's daughter takes care of Miss Fannie, instead of the other way around. Miss Fannie owns lots and lots of hats. And each hat is her favorite. But when she gives up her very favorite hat—the famous pink straw hat with roses—to help raise money in the church auction, Miss Fannie is in for...

After her parents are jailed for a failed resistance movement, Malley is sent to reform school, where she plans some resistance of her own.

There's drama in the cornfield! What happened? It doesn't take much for things to get out of hand, or in this case, grow to an earful! Find out how one incident became a destructive recipe for jealousy, gossip, and rumor. One of Carl's kernels has popped! Sweetcorn is jealous of Carl and twists the minor incident into what becomes, rows of gossip. This relevant, rhyming, early reader story, exposes the dangers of twisting...

"What are some steps for success in life? Life doesn't come with a manual, but there are some helpful rules that one can follow in their life to be set up for success. That's something that the Tuttle twins have been taught by their parents -- and something they teach to their Uncle Brock in their new adventure. Inspired by the popular 12 Rules for Life written by Jordan Peterson, their story sees the twins organize a boot camp for Brock to help him...