The second collection of the funniest, silliest and most accessible series, School of Monsters.Bat-Boy Tim Says BOO! Bat-Boy Tim loves to play pranks on the other monsters - but they don't like it at all! Can he use his sneaky abilities to show how good a friend he can be?William Is a Star William wants to be in the school play, but there's a problem. When he's nervous, he farts! How can he possibly audition, let alone win a part?Luna Boo Has Feelings Too Luna's a ghost, so her classmates can't see how she feels when they accidentally leave her out of their games. Will showing her true colours help her - or scare them away for good?Frank Is a Big Help Frank always feels like he's in the way. How will he ever be able to help out at school?Jess Makes a Mess Jess can slip and slide all over the school - but when it's too hot, things get a little sticky. Will she find a way to keep cool?
The second collection of the funniest, silliest and most accessible series, School of Monsters.Bat-Boy Tim Says BOO! Bat-Boy Tim loves to play pranks on the other monsters - but they don't like it at all! Can he use his sneaky abilities to show how good a friend he can be?William Is a Star William wants to be in the school play, but there's a problem. When he's nervous, he farts! How can he possibly audition, let alone win a part?Luna Boo Has Feelings Too Luna's a ghost, so her classmates can't see how she feels when they accidentally leave her out of their games. Will showing her true colours help her - or scare them away for good?Frank Is a Big Help Frank always feels like he's in the way. How will he ever be able to help out at school?Jess Makes a Mess Jess can slip and slide all over the school - but when it's too hot, things get a little sticky. Will she find a way to keep cool?
The Princess Diaries meets Harriet the Spy when Abby—who thinks she is the most ordinary girl in the world—finds herself undercover at a summer camp for famous kids. From acclaimed author Jennifer Blecher, Camp Famous is an accessible and fun summertime adventure about fitting in, being brave, and letting others see who you truly are. Camp Famous is pitch-perfect for tweens who love Disney’s Camp Rock. Eleven-year-old Abby Herman is normal normal normal. She’s never stood out, and she never knows quite how to find her place in a group of friends, even though she notices everything and writes it all down in her notebook. When Abby learns that she’ll be attending summer camp, she is beyond excited at the idea of a fresh start and a place where she might find what she’s always wanted: a best friend. But—surprise!—she’s not going to just any summer camp, she’s going to Camp Famous, the one exclusively for famous kids escaping the spotlight.Desperate to fit in with the pop stars, princesses
In this warm and vibrant work of memoir and criticism, a young writer forges a friendship with Philip Guston, one of the most influential and controversial painters of the twentieth century and the subject of Philip Guston Now, a much-discussed retrospective upcoming in several major museums. The late paintings of Philip Guston have had a profound influence on painters today; only the altogether different work of Andy Warhol can be said to have had a comparable impact. As time has passed and Guston's star has risen, it has been forgotten how scandalous and crude these paintings, with their cartoonish imagery and curiously faltering application of paint, were initially deemed to be. The 1970 show at the Marlborough Gallery in which Guston, abandoning the delicate abstract expressionist style for which he was known, revealed his new style was critically savaged and even led to a rift between Guston and his best friend, the composer Morton Feldman, that was never fully mended. In the afte
The third hilarious picture book in the award-winning When Pencil Met Eraser series in which underappreciated Glue longs to stand out, and soon meets a new friend, Glitter, who helps bring out her inner sparkle, confidence, and creativity. Glue loves making art with her friends--especially pasting on googly eyes!--but sometimes she feels invisible. Instead of always being stuck in the background, Glue wants to be noticed like Pencil and colorful like the Markers! How can she find a way to stand out? When a new friend named Glitter arrives in a swirl of sparkles, Glue and Glitter team up to make something completely original and help Glue shine like the star she truly is. When Glitter Met Glue spotlights art's unsung hero--a glue bottle--in a hilarious and clever story that encourages creativity, self-acceptance, and spurs us all to recognize our inner shimmer.
The charming duo returns with a love letter to the library, good friends, the joy of learning, and self-reinvention.It’s Saturday, and Houndsley, Catina, and their friend Bert are looking forward to their weekly visit to the library. But when the trio arrives, they find that Trixie, the librarian, seems different. She doesn’t tell a joke or recommend a book like she always does. That’s when the friends find out the news ― the library is closing! With Trixie retiring and enrolled in circus school, there’s no one to take her place as head librarian…or is there? James Howe and Marie-Louise Gay have created another engaging tale about what it means to be a supportive friend and how it’s never too late to learn something new.
"Always perfectly magical." --Neil GaimanA timeless classic with brand-new cover art Diana Wynne Jones's bestselling, magical, and funny Chrestomanci novels will enchant fans of Soman Chainani, Rick Riordan, and Chris Colfer.Volume III contains Conrad's Fate and The Pinhoe Egg.In Conrad's Fate, Conrad Tesdinic must overcome his terrible karma while working at the mysterious Stallery Mansion. Luckily for him, young Christopher Chant is also undercover at Stallery to rescue his friend Millie.In The Pinhoe Egg, Cat Chant and Marianne Pinhoe discover a mystical egg in Marianne's attic. If Marianne and Cat can harness their own considerable powers, they'll soon see how the egg fits into the many secrets in Marianne's family of secret rogue witches. But it may lead to a mess only the Chrestomanci can sort out.The third of three volumes, the Chronicles of Chrestomanci can be read in any order.
Now in paperback, the bestselling authors of "How to Be Your Dog's Best Friend" distill their collective spiritual wisdom in a book that explains how the elements of a monk's life--self-disc
Eight years ago, Addie Webster was the victim of the most notorious kidnapping of the decade. Addie vanished-and her high-profile parents were forced to move on.Mark Webster is now president of the United States, fighting to keep the oval office after a tumultuous first term. Then the unthinkable happens: the president's daughter resurfaces. Addie is brought back into her family's fold, but who is this sixteen-year-old girl with a quiet, burning intelligence now living in the White House? There are those in the president's political circle who find her timely return suspicious.When a national security advisor approaches Darrow Fergusson, Addie's childhood best friend and the son of the president's chief of staff, he doesn't know what to think. How could the girl he's missed for all these years be a threat to national security? Still, at the risk of having his own secrets exposed, Darrow agrees to spy on Addie.He soon realizes that his old friend is much more than the traumatized victim
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Best friends forever!Rachel and Kirsty know a thing or two about how to be a good friend. So do the Friendship Fairies. But there's one resident of Fairyland who definitely doesn't: Jack Frost!The icy
In factories! In the sky! In your cars and phones! In your own home! Robots are everywhere! And they have been for a lot longer than you might realize.From tea-serving robots in feudal Japan to modern rovers exploring Mars, robots have been humanity's partners, helpers, and protectors for centuries! Join one of the world's earliest robots, a mechanical bird named Pouli, as he explores where robots came from, how they work, and where they’re going in this informative and hilarious new book! Ever dreamt of building your own best friend? It might be easier than you think!Every volume of Science Comics offers a complete introduction to a particular topic—dinosaurs, coral reefs, the solar system, volcanoes, bats, flying machines, and more. These gorgeously illustrated graphic novels offer wildly entertaining views of their subjects. Whether you're a fourth grader doing a natural science unit at school or a thirty year old with a secret passion for airplanes, these books are for you!
