In the book Butterfly goes to many wonderful places now use your imagination and go to many many more.

Hug them tight, appreciate them with all your might. No, matter what they did today, good or bad. Love them Anyway.

'Playful, obstinate and courageously humorous ... hilarious and later heartbreaking' Guardian'Sweet, funny, highly inventive' Yorkshire PostThe personal, funny and poignant tale of a young refugee, from acclaimed storyteller Benjamin ZephaniahAcclaimed performance poet and novelist Benjamin Zephaniah's honest, wry and poignant story of a young refugee left in London is of even more power and pertine...

Seventeen years is a long time to keep secrets, and Xander Fife has gotten very good at it.Everyone believes Xander has a normal life and a normal family. If he can just get through this summer, he’ll start his real life in college with a clean slate-no risk, no drama, no fear.Even better, his plans for summer are awesome: lots of pick-up soccer, relaxing afternoons with friends, and an epic road trip. Xander is banking on some long-overdue nights with his ...

Join the Berenstain Bears as they celebrate Papa Bear and teach children about the importance of family. Makes a perfect gift for Father's Day with fun for the whole family--including over 50 bonus stickers!Come for a visit in Bear Country with this classic storybook from Stan and Jan Berenstain. It’s Father’s Day, and Papa thinks that Mama and the cubs have forgotten all about it . . . but they are actually planning something very special for him.Continue ...

From the Newbery Honor and Schneider Award-winning author of The War that Saved My Life comes Halfway to the Sky, a compelling novel perfect for fans of Rain Reign.Twelve-year-old Dani is running away from home, or what’s left of home anyway. Her older brother, who had muscular dystrophy, died a few months ago. Then her father left and her parents got divorced. Now home is just Dani and her sad, silent mother, and Dani’s got to get away. ...

The Valorim are about to fall to a dark lord when they send a necklace containing their planet across the cosmos, hurtling past a trillion stars . . . all the way into the lunchbox of Tommy Pepper, sixth grader, of Plymouth, Mass.Mourning his late mother, Tommy doesn't notice much about the chain he found, but soon he is drawing the twin suns and humming the music of a hanorah. As Tommy absorbs the art and language of the Valorim, their enemies target him. When a creature b...

Cue the pretend drum-roll: Keats's parents have a big surprise. No, they're not having a new baby. It's—wait for it, wait for it—a family road trip!Okay, so this is not exactly the birthday present Keats had in mind (no iPod?!), but when Dad parks a rented RV in the Dalinger's driveway, Keats piles in with the rest of his family—and the manny, of course—bound for the open road. From the big skies of farm country to the bright lights of Las Vegas, this, in typical m...

Nine-year-old Sam loves fishing with his dad. So when his pesky little sister, Lucy, horns in on their fishing trip, he's none too pleased: "Where's my stringer? / Something's wrong! / The princess doll does not belong!" All ends well in this winsome book of poems—each labeled with its proper poetic form, from quatrain to tercet. Together the poems build a dawn-to-dusk story of a father-son bond, of sibling harmony lost and found—and most of all, of delicious anticipation. Charming line dr...

"Add this title to your "Recommended Reading for Summer Camp" bibliographies"--School Library JournalCody's mom is pulling the plug and sending him off to camp. That means no TV, no video games, no computers-for one whole week! According to his wilderness guide, the first rule of survival is to be prepared. The only thing Cody's not prepared for is how much fun he'll have at camp!"Fans of Cody will stay unplugged themselves until the final pages of...

From Newbery Medalist Cynthia Voigt, Book II in the exciting adventures of Mister Max—12-year-old detective in disguise.In Mister Max: The Book of Lost Things, Max Starling proved that he is more than a detective, he’s a Solutioneer. His reputation for problem-solving has been spreading—and now even the mayor wants his help.Someone is breaking windows and setting fires in the old city, but the shopkeepers won’t say a word about the culprits. Why ar...

In this delightfully illustrated and written book Helen takes us into the forest where a mother monkey is holding her little monkey who doesn't want to go to sleep and tells the neighboring snake the it is because hunger calls. The little monkey's mother feeds the little monkey but then the tummy is a problem, making the fussy monkey share with the jackal. Mother rubs the tummy and the next thing is the little monkey has wet pants as shared with a porcupine. Mother changes the little monke...