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Escapades of a lucky little girl who lives with a horse and a monkey--but without any parents--at the edge of a Swedish village.

When Ronald Zupan's parents are kidnapped on his 12th birthday, he teams up with his trusty butler Jeeves, his fencing nemesis Julianne Sato, and his pet cobra, Carter, to face pirates and other dangers in the jungle of Borneo.

Nature can be very colorful! Blue is a color found in the air on parrots, in the sea on lobsters, and on the land on slugs. Blue Animals will help readers understand that colors in nature are not just for beauty, but sometimes have more important purposes. Also included in this title is a color wheel showing primary and secondary colors and their relationships. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo Kids is a division...

"THE all-time classic picture book, from generation to generation, sold somewhere in the world every 30 seconds! A sturdy and beautiful book to give as a gift for new babies, baby showers, birthdays, and other new beginnings! Featuring interactive die-cut pages, this board book edition is the perfect size for little hands and great for teaching counting and days of the week."

Twelve-year-old Jonathan Grisby has been sent to the Slabhenge Reformatory School for Troubled Boys, a former lunatic asylum which is currently run by a sadist who enjoys punishing the boys and setting them against each other; but when a lightning strike kills all the adults the boys find themselves suddenly free--and trapped on Scar Island which seems to be sinking into the ocean.

Meet the heaviest snake in the world-the green anaconda! Everything about this title is big, from the full-bleed photographs to the content. Readers will learn all that is super-sized about this hulking snake. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.

Unicorn and Yeti run into each other (literally) while looking for sparkly things, and despite some differences, (for instance Unicorn is magic, Yeti is not, Yeti likes snowball fights, Unicorn can not throw snowballs)--the two become friends over a shared love of hot chocolate with rainbow sprinkles.

"Learn to draw aliens, astronauts, and space objects, and write a story about them, with a story example and story prompts"--Provided by publisher.

Helping her parents with the new twins, JoJo must figure out a way to tell the identical babies apart.