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Get ready to go back to school with the Pout-Pout Fish! Mr. Fish is going back to school to be a substitute teacher, and he's nervous - until he meets a little guppy who can help him!

The Pout-Pout Fish's morning has been maddening and rough. Disappointments and frustrations - Mr. Fish has had enough! It's been one thing, then another, then another stacked on top. He's mad and getting madder. Is there any way to stop? Swim along with Mr. Fish as he faces his anger and gains new understandings.

Uri Shulevitz, one of FSG BYR’s most acclaimed picture-book creators, details the eight-year odyssey of how he and his Jewish family escaped the terrors of the Nazis by fleeing Warsaw for the Soviet Union in Chance. It was during those years, with threats at every turn, that the young Uri experienced his awakening as an artist, an experience that played a key role during this difficult time. By turns dreamlike and nightmarish, this account of determination, courage, family loyalty, and the luck of coincidence is a true publishing event.

Maximillian Fly wants no trouble. Yet because he stands at six feet two, with beautiful indigo wings, long antennae, and more arms than you or me, many are frightened of him. He is a gentle creature who looks like a giant cockroach. This extraordinary human wants to prove his goodness, so he opens his door to two SilverSeed children in search of a place to hide. Instantly, Maximillian’s quiet, solitary life changes. There are dangerous powers after them and they have eyes everywhere. But in this gray city of Hope trapped under the Orb, is escape even possible?

Seventh grader Holling Hoodhood isn't happy. He is sure his new teacher, Mrs. Baker, hates his guts. Throughout the school year, Holling strives to get a handle on the Shakespeare plays Mrs. Baker assigns him to read on his own time, and to figure out the enigmatic Mrs. Baker. At home, Holling's domineering father is obsessed with his business image and disregards his family.

What happens to the would-be peacemakers when they find themselves in the middle of something else? Something dangerous, something highly advanced...and something familiar? If humanity is wise, we will prepare for everything we can imagine. But we cannot prepare for what we cannot imagine. It might be benign, it might be malign, or it might be a sign. You just have to know where to look.

Mike Lupica presents the third book in his New York Times best-selling Game Changers series! Ben and his friends, the Core Four Plus One, are so excited to play in their town's All-Star Baseball league. But in the first game of the season, Ben gets hit by a pitch. It's never happened to him before and it shakes him up. Another player on Ben's team, Justin, is acting really weirdly. Ben's known Justin for a while and they're friendly, but he's not one of Ben's closest "boys."

Everybody has a favorite color. Some like blue balloons or brown buildings or mint green ice cream cones. Others prefer sunshine yellow, Maine morning gray, or Mexican pink. In What's Your Favorite Color?, fifteen beloved children's book artists explain why they love them. This personal collection will undoubtedly inspire listeners to create favorite color drawings and stories of their own!

Everybody has a favorite animal. Some like little white dogs or big black cats or hoppy brown bunnies best. Others prefer squishy snails or tall giraffes or sleek black panthers. With charming personal stories, 14 children's book artists share their favorite animals and why they love them.

What is home? To one child, home is this street he knows better than any other. Where his family has lived for as long as he can remember. But to another…home is also another place. Where she lived when she was a child. Far away, yet close enough in memory. Or maybe home is a place they never saw themselves. That only grandparents or great-grandparents knew. And maybe, home is not a place at all. Maybe home is people, who gather to share, and celebrate. Follow a group of children as they walk through urban streets and meet friends with immigrant parents and grandparents.

Edna the very first chicken is hatching her very first eggs! With long, sharp teeth and claws, one of her chicks, Sinclair, is an unusual chicken. But when Gorgosaurus threatens his family, Sinclair might just prove to be the best chicken ever. Heartfelt and humorous, this delightful book celebrates dinosaurs, chickens, the importance of family, and the joy of accepting who we are.

First introduced in The Pout-Pout Fish and the Worry-Worry Whale, Willa Whale is the star of her own spin-off series. In this story Willa, overcomes her fear of getting called on in class. Swim along with Willa Whale as she develops strategies and confidence for raising her fin. She might just discover that sharing our ideas, thoughts, and questions will help us learn and grow!

This book is for you―not your parents. Step-by-step, using approaches that are relatively easy but bring big results, you’ll be guided in how to improve the important and super-challenging relationship between you and your parents. This doesn’t mean you’re going to become best friends, but you will learn the skills needed to change how you see one another and how you interact. And ultimately, you will gain control over your own life.

Three months after his adventures in Doveport, Ben and his friends have been sweeping the island of Lucella for the Infected, administering the newly created cure and reuniting families. However, the only real cure to their problems will be finding out how this infection started, and putting a stop to it. The search for answers will bring our heroes face-to-face with their deepest secrets and darkest fears—and pull them into a battle for the island of Lucella itself.

A new title in the Eric Carle and Friends What's Your Favorite picture book series, in which Eric Carle and thirteen other beloved children's book artists share their favorite foods and explain why they love them.

Everybody has a favorite bug. Some like shiny, colorful beetles or busy ants or soft pale moths best. Others prefer spindly walking sticks or fuzzy caterpillars that turn into bright butterflies. With charming personal stories, 15 children's book artists share their favorite bugs and why they love them.

Rex, one of a group of dinosaurs living at the Museum of Natural History, loses his place as the center of attention when a film director invites them all to sunny California. Lively narration by Fred Berman (The Lion King on Broadway)

Little Toot had never been to San Francisco. As he steamed under the Golden Gate Bridge and saw the sunlit bay filled with busy boats of all kinds and the high hills perched above the city, Little Toot knew he was going to have fun. And Little Toot did have fun until the San Francisco fog crept over the bay and engulfed the tiny tugboat. Little Toot was lost!

Little Toot hears of the monster at Loch Ness and goes off to see for himself. The riverboats make fun of him, the search boats on the loch order him away, the fishing boat won't talk to him. But Little Toot perseveres, and finally meets the soft-spoken Nessie.

When the Mississippi river floods, adventure-loving Little Toot sets out on a daring rescue mission. The plucky little tugboat, with the help of several forlorn old steamboats, once again faces a challenge to his resourcefulness.