Tag Archives: Nonfiction

Scholastic Success With Math Workbook Grade 2 (Grades 2)

Rating: (3 reviews)
Author: Scholastic Books
Publisher: Skills Books

Book Description
For classroom or at home, this super-fun resource provides engaging practice and reinforcement for all the essential math skills that kids need to succeed - in school and on the tests. Includes counting, shapes and patterns, addition, subtraction, problem-solving, and more! Packed [...]

Chrysanthemum (rpkg)

Rating: (69 reviews)
Author:
Publisher: HarperTrophy

Amazon.com
Until Chrysanthemum started kindergarten, she believed her parents when they said her name was perfect. But on the first day of school, Chrysanthemum begins to suspect that her name is far less than perfect, especially when her class dissolves into giggles upon hearing her name [...]

New Moon (The Twilight Saga, Book 2)

Rating: (709 reviews)
Author: Stephenie Meyer
Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers

Product Description
Legions of readers entranced by Twilight are hungry for more and they won’t be disappointed. In New Moon, Stephenie Meyer delivers another irresistible combination of romance and suspense with a supernatural twist. The “star-crossed” lovers theme continues as Bella and Edward find [...]

A Writer’s Notebook: Unlocking the Writer within You

Rating: (16 reviews)
Author: Ralph Fletcher
Publisher: HarperTrophy

Amazon.com
Ages 8-12. Fans of Harriet the Spy who want to try keeping their own writer’s notebook will appreciate this inspiring handbook. Written in a direct, non-condescending style, writer-to-writer, it offers realistic, experienced advice on how to keep notes and use them to create stories and poems. [...]

Indiana Jones: The Ultimate Guide

Rating: (4 reviews)
Author: DK Publishing
Publisher: DK CHILDREN

Book Description
Since his debut in 1981’s Raiders of the Lost Ark, fans have followed the adventures of learned scholar and hunky professor Indiana Jones. He is the unlikely action-hero who undertakes perilous adventures involving snakes, rats, spiders, and villains, in order to stop powerful, mystical [...]

Ivy + Bean - Book 3: Break the Fossil Record (Ivy & Bean)

Rating: (2 reviews)
Author: Annie Barrows
Publisher: Chronicle Books

Product Description
World-record fever grips the second grade, and soon Ivy and Bean are trying to set their own record by becoming the youngest people to have ever discovered a dinosaur. But how hard is it to find one?

The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

Rating: (204 reviews)
Author: Kate Dicamillo
Publisher: Candlewick

Product Description
Once, in a house on Egypt Street, there lived a china rabbit named Edward Tulane. The rabbit was very pleased with himself, and for good reason: he was owned by a girl named Abilene, who adored him completely. And then, one day, he was lost. [...]

Algebra 2

Rating: (21 reviews)
Author: Ron Larson, Laurie Boswell, Lee Stiff, Timothy D. Kanold
Publisher: McDougal Littell

Out Of The Dust (Apple Signature Edition)

Rating: (838 reviews)
Author: Karen Hesse
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks

Amazon.com
Like the Oklahoma dust bowl from which she came, 14-year-old narrator Billie Jo writes in sparse, free-floating verse. In this compelling, immediate journal, Billie Jo reveals the grim domestic realities of living during the years of constant dust storms: That hopes–like the crops–blow away in [...]

Boys Adrift: The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men

Rating: (36 reviews)
Author: Leonard Sax
Publisher: Basic Books

Product Description
Something scary is happening to boys today. From kindergarten to college, they are less resilient and less ambitious than they were a mere twenty years ago. As for young men, it turns out the film Failure to Launch is not far from the truth. [...]

The Naked Roommate: And 107 Other Issues You Might Run Into in College, 2nd Edition

Rating: (26 reviews)
Author: Harlan Cohen
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.

Product Description
In college, there’s a surprise around every corner…but that doesn’t mean you can’t be prepared! From sharing a bathroom with 40 strangers to sharing lecture notes, The Naked Roommate is your behind-the-scenes look at EVERYTHING you need to know about college (but never knew [...]

Lavinia

Rating: (14 reviews)
Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
Publisher: Harcourt

Product Description
in The Aeneid, Vergil’s hero fights to claim the king’s daughter, Lavinia, with whom he is destined to found an empire. Lavinia herself never speaks a word in the poem. Now, Ursula K. Le Guin gives Lavinia a voice in a novel that [...]

Roots, Shoots, Buckets & Boots: Gardening Together with Children

Rating: (27 reviews)
Author: Sharon Lovejoy
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company

Amazon.com
Green thumbs and non-green thumbs alike will fall in love with Roots, Shoots, Buckets, & Boots, a remarkably fun and informative introduction to the wonderful world of gardening–and more specifically, gardening with children. Learn how to make everything from a pizza garden (pizza-pie-shaped, with [...]

What’s Happening to Me?: Boys Edition (What’s Happening to Me?)

Rating: (3 reviews)
Author: Alex Firth
Publisher: Usborne Books

Comprehensive Curriculum of Basic Skills, Grade 3 (Comprehensive Curriculumà)

Rating: (7 reviews)
Author: School Specialty Publishing
Publisher: American Education Publishing

Product Description
Offering an entire grade 3 curriculum, this best-selling Comprehensive Curriculum workbook features educational activities and instruction. Containing 544 pages organized [...]

American Medical Association Boy’s Guide to Becoming a Teen

Rating: (16 reviews)
Author: American Medical Association, Kate Gruenwald Pfeifer
Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Product Description
Becoming a teen is an important milestone in every boy’s life. It’s even more important to get answers and advice to the most common health issues boys face from a trusted source. The American Medical Association Boy’s Guide to Becoming a [...]

Journey Through Space (DK READERS)

Rating: (2 reviews)
Author: Ryder Windham
Publisher: DK CHILDREN

Book Description
Journey Through Space takes young readers on a journey through the Star Wars Galaxy.

Night in the Country

Rating: (9 reviews)
Author: Cynthia Rylant
Publisher: Aladdin

Product Description
There is no night so dark, so black as night in the country. And while the people dream of daytime things, the nighttime world awakens. Owls swoop, a rabbit patters, and in the yard an apple falls — pump! — from the tree.Listen. Go to [...]