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  Fancy Nancy: Splendid Speller

  Jane O'Connor

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  Young readers will relate to Nancy's test-taking dilemma in this Fancy Nancy I Can Read story from New York Times bestselling team Jane O’Connor and Robin Preiss Glasser. 
  Nancy loves spelling. She can spell fun words like ""happy"" and French words like chien (that means ""dog"") and even long words like ""splendid."" But when Ms. Glass's spelling test is harder than Nancy anticipated, the self-professed spelling prodigy faces a tough decision that pits her pride against her principles. 
  Fancy Nancy: Splendid Speller is a Level One I Can Read book, which means it's perfect for children learning to sound out words and sentences. The back matter features a list of the rich vocabulary words that are used throughout the story along with their definition.

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  Distress Signal

  Ross Rocklynne

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  Distress Signal by Ross Rocklynne - Marooned! On the cold satellite of a dying sun, light-years away from home.... For Rex there was only one escape. But Carl called it murder! 
  The years passed relentlessly, ticked off—one, two three, four—by the big lone planet Worta as it moved with ponderous sureness around the dying red star. Sometimes, in the first year after they were marooned, the two runaway boys, Carl Wyant and Rex Oberling, crawled from the grottoes, chambers and labyrinthine tunnels which the Wortans had driven deep beneath the planet's crust, and with a chill lonesomeness looked out into the vastness of space where the stars brooded. One of those stars, thirty-five light-years away, was Sol, around which swung the planet Earth! They could not think of Earth without a brightness coming to their eyes. 
  Sometimes the younger boy, then seventeen, would whisper, "I wish we'd never left home, Carl." 
  And Carl would say, "But we left. So let's take our medicine like men." 
  Yes, their leaving home, leaving their parents, their friends, their whole world, could not be changed. Yet it seemed to them that their punishment was out of all proportion to their crime. Thinking back on it, Carl Wyant no longer remembered the petty grievance against his parents which made him decide to run away. 
  Mainly, of course, it had been because his father dropped his keys to the interstellar space-ship he had recently requisitioned from the Space Council. Both Carl and his buddy, Rex, the young fellow who lived next door and belonged to the same Scout Troop, had been caught up with the idea of visiting the stars, without parental supervision. To visit the stars! That was a thrilling thought. 
  At first they planned to be gone a month.

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  The Boy Who Failed Show and Tell

  Jordan Sonnenblick

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  An unbelievably hilarious middle-grade true story from bestselling author Jordan Sonnenblick.In a typical school year, every kid has one or two things go wrong. But for Jordan, there's A LOT going wrong ALL THE TIME.Take this year. Here are some of the thing going wrong:-- His teacher hates him. Like, really hates him. Like, is totally out to get him even when he's trying to be good, and is willing to fail him on the simplest things, like show and tell.-- He has a slight breathing problem because of his asthma. And breathing is never really an optional activity.-- His pet snake has given birth to way, way, way too many baby snakes, all who need a home.-- He is finding that becoming The World's Best Drummer in no time whatsoever is maybe not the easiest goal.-- There are bullies ready to stomp him when all he has to defend himself with is a lunchbox.And all this doesn't even include the freak swing set accident, the fears inside his head, or the funniest class presentation ever. By keeping his cool (some of the time), banging on the drums (a lot), and keeping his sense of humor (all the time), Jordan's going to try to make it through the year . . . and grow up to write a book about it!

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  Timbertoes The: A Heartfelt...

  Rich Wallace

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  Highlights presents The Timbertoes: A Heartfelt Surprise written by Rich Wallace. Tommy and Mabel surprise Ma and Pa Timbertoes by cleaning up the workshop and creating a message of love out of scraps of wood.

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  Birthday Surprise

  Mukta Bam

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  Everyone likes birthday surprises! Vihan decides to plan a grand surprise Birthday Party for his favourite Robot Roku.Will Vihan be able to keep this as a secret from Roku?

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  Stupendous Sound

  Nadia Higgins

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  Learn about the stupendous sounds that surround us in these easy-to-read books. The vibrations, signals, and effects of sound are explained in simple text and matching art.  A science activity, fun facts section, glossary, and index aid students in learning about the stupendous sounds around them. Special thanks to content consultant Paul Ohmann, Ph.D. Looking Glass Library is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO Publishing Group. Grades preK-4.

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