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While sorting through difficulties in her friendship with her neighbor Margaret, eight-year-old Clementine gains several unique hairstyles while also helping her father in his efforts to banish pigeons from the front of their apartment building.

"A. J. and his friends from Ella Mentry School are in for a weird Christmas surprise when they head to the local mall to see Santa Claus"--

Biscuit helps reunite a lost teddy bear with its owner.

Describes such animals as snails, turtles, and crabs, which live in shells and use these coverings as protection.

Introduces Meriwether Lewis and William Clark who, during their exploration of the West for Thomas Jefferson, captured a prairie dog and sent it to the President as a gift.

Readers play "I Spy" searching for Christmas objects as they solve the riddles.

It's the first day of fourth grade and Charlie Owens find himself smack in the middle of the fiercest, most hard-nosed game played at Covington Elementary... Rotten Egg. You know, "Last one outside is a rotten egg!" Life as a Rotten Egg chronicles Charlie's year-long attempt to navigate his way frontwards, backwards, and sideways through this vicious game. It will take a little bit of skill and a ton of luck for Charlie to survive the game all while...

A.J. and the other students at Ella Mentry School brave trick-or-treating at the school secretary's house, even though it is supposedly haunted, in order to receive the best Halloween candy.

Blu, a rare blue Spix's Macaw, travels to Rio de Janeiro to save his species, where he meets Jewel, the only other bird of his kind, but they are soon kidnapped by rare animal smugglers and must escape.

"Facts, pictures and information about dogs for young children"--