5 Easy Readers, 5 to Sink Your Teeth Into

Try a movie tie-in for reluctant beginning readers! Based on the upcoming film from 20th Century Fox, starring Dwayne Johnson. Hockey player Derek Thompson is called "the Tooth Fairy" because he knocks out other players' teeth on the ice. But one morning, he wakes up with real wings. Now Derek must be an actual Tooth Fairy--and it's tougher than it looks. Full color.

A humorous easy-reader for kids! The 100th day of school is approaching, and every class at Appleville Elementary has to come up with 100 things to display in the all-purpose room. But the kids in Miss Popper's class can't agree on the 100 items they want to show! Will they be able to put their differences aside in order to celebrate the 100th day of school?

A special, new edition of a paperback book paired with a CD! PreS-Gr 2 -Another addition to the humorous series that began with "How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night?" (Scholastic, 2000). In the first part of the book, dinosaurs burp, belch, and display all kinds of other inappropriate behaviors during breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Spinosaurus doesn't -eat all his food...[he spits] out his broccoli partially chewed. - Quetzalcoatlus fusses, fidgets, and squirms in his chair in a restaurant, while Amargasaurus flips his spaghetti high into the air. But, is this the way that dinosaurs should act? Of course not. So, a very genteel Cryolophosaurus says -please - and -thank you - while sitting very still, Lambeosaurus tries everything at least once, and Spinosaurus never drops anything onto the floor. In the last image, a very proper Cryolophosaurus -with pinky in the air -daintily eats his pancakes. The book is great fun, and sure to be popular with dinosaur lovers. Hidden in the illustration on each page is the proper name of the reptile portrayed therein. Teague's gouache-and-ink illustrations contain just the right amount of detail and whimsy, and they are large enough for storytime sharing. Children not yet old enough to read will still enjoy looking at the pictures by themselves." -Roxanne Burg, Orange County Public Library, CA" Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

Moore ("Anagrams") knits together the shadow of 9/11 and a young girl's bumpy coming-of-age in this luminous, heart-wrenchingly wry novel--the author's first in 15 years. Tassie Keltjin, 20, a small-town girl weathering a clumsy college year in the Athens of the Midwest, is taken on as prospective nanny by brittle Sarah Brink, the proprietor of a pricey restaurant who is desperate to adopt a baby despite her dodgy past. Subsequent adventures in prospective motherhood involve a pregnant girl with scarcely a tooth in her head and a white birth mother abandoned by her African-American boyfriend--both encounters expose class and racial prejudice to an increasingly less naïve Tassie. In a parallel tale, Tassie lands a lover, enigmatic Reynaldo, who tries to keep certain parts of his life a secret from Tassie. Moore's graceful prose considers serious emotional and political issues with low-key clarity and poignancy, while generous flashes of wit--Tessie the sexual innocent using her roommate's vibrator to stir her chocolate milk--endow this stellar novel with great heart. Publishers Weekly, Copyright 2009 Reed Business Information.

From two of our most fiercely moral voices, a passionate call to arms against our era's most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women and girls in the developing world. With Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn as our guides, we undertake an odyssey through Africa and Asia to meet the extraordinary women struggling there, among them a Cambodian teenager sold into sex slavery and an Ethiopian woman who suffered devastating injuries in childbirth. Drawing on the breadth of their combined reporting experience, Kristof and WuDunn depict our world with anger, sadness, clarity, and, ultimately, hope. They show how a little help can transform the lives of women and girls abroad. That Cambodian girl eventually escaped from her brothel and, with assistance from an aid group, built a thriving retail business that supports her family. The Ethiopian woman had her injuries repaired and in time became a surgeon. A Zimbabwean mother of five, counseled to return to school, earned her doctorate and became an expert on AIDS. Through these stories, Kristof and WuDunn help us see that the key to economic progress lies in unleashing women's potential. They make clear how so many people have helped to do just that, and how we can each do our part. Throughout much of the world, the greatest unexploited economic resource is the female half of the population. Countries such as China have prospered precisely because they emancipated women and brought them into the formal economy. Unleashing that process globally is not only the right thing to do; it's also the best strategy for fighting poverty. Deeply felt, pragmatic, and inspirational, "Half the Sky" is essential reading for every global citizen.