Geeder's summer at her uncle's farm is made special because of her friendship with a very tall, composed woman who raises hogs and who closely resembles the magazine photograph of a Watutsi queen.

Let’s Read Together books merge rhyme and vowel sounds in delightfully zany stories kids will want to read again and again. Each of the 15 books in this classic series by award-winning author/educator Barbara deRubertis will give your child a jumpstart on reading success. "Story lines are silly and inventive, and recall Dr. Seuss’s Cat in the Hat for the building of rhythm and rhyming words." —School Library Journal Zeely Zebra dreams of making the All Star Racing Team; how will she achieve her goal? (This easy-to-read story features the long “e” vowel sound.)

Eleven-year old Vhan Zeely's boring summer is brought to a screeching halt by the arrival of the strange new family on 2nd Street, and the kidnapping of Vhan's parents. Vhan and her best friend Amy are pitted against the Prevaricators -- evil pursuers who will stop at nothing to possess all of the special timepieces that will enable their owners to rewrite history.

Uses wacky sentences and colorful art to teach long vowel sounds and consonant digraphs.

Proceeding chronologically, Mikkelsen analyzes Hamilton's realistic fiction, her fiction of psychic realism, young adult fiction, realistic fiction for younger readers, biographies, folklore collections, and fantasy.

A literary criticism focussing on the role of female characters in children's literature from the past and present.

Already a leader in New York's underground world of homeless children, Buddy Clark takes on the responsibility of protecting the overweight, emotionally disturbed friend with whom he has been playing hooky from eighth grade all semester.