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It's a cold January at the Watertower Elementary School - the perfect weather for Gooney Bird Greene to break out her special brain-warming hat! It's a good thing she has one. Gooney Bird's brain will need to be as warm as possible this month, because Mrs. Pidgeon is teaching her class about poetry. Who knew there could be so many different ways to write a poem? Haikus, couplets, limericks - Mrs. Pidgeon's students soon find that writing good poetry takes a lot of hard work and creative thinking.

A church mouse is no ordinary mouse, and Hildegarde - the Mouse Mistress of Saint Bartholemew's - is no ordinary mouse leader. It falls to her to keep all the church mice safe and out of sight. But when a few parishioners report mouse sightings, Hildegarde and the rest of the church mice must face a most dreadful consequence: the Great X. To complicate things, a ceremony called the Blessing of the Animals is fast approaching. Saint Bartholemew's will soon be filled with pets... including cats!

Altmodischer Charme und britischer Humor - Originell und skurril. Die Willoughbys wollen ihre Kinder loswerden. Was die Eltern nicht wissen - umgekehrt ist es nicht anders. Die Chancen der Kinder stehen gut, denn die Eltern haben eine gefährliche Abenteuer-Reise gebucht. Jedoch - sie überleben Erdbeben, Vulkanausbrüche und Krokodile. Zurück nach Hause kommen sie trotzdem nicht. Dafür taucht mit altmodischem Charme das beste Kindermädchen der Welt auf.

Why won't Sam Krupnik allow his mother to enter his bedroom? Why has he started calling his toy box The Lab? And why does he carry a Ziplock bag in his pocket at all times? Well, his mother's birthday is approaching, and she has told her family that what she really wants are homemade gifts. Sam has decided to invent a special, surprise perfume just for her - a concoction that will combine all of her favorite smells.

Anastasia Krupnik's little brother, Sam, wants fangs more than anything in the world. But there is one big problem. Sam's mother, Mrs. Krupnik, has fangphobia and forbids Sam even to touch his plastic vampire fangs in the house. How can she not see how cool fangs really are? Sure, they make it hard to eat hot dogs, but they make him look disgusting - and Sam loves to took disgusting.

It's Future Job Day at Sam's school, and Sam knows exactly what he wants to be when he grows up-a zookeeper, just like Zookeeper Jake in his favorite picture book. His mother and big sister, Anastasia, help Sam create a memorable costume-so memorable that Sam insists on wearing it long after Future Job Day has passed and the rest of his classmates are back in their regular clothes.

Bored, bored, bored. It's all Princess Patricia Priscilla can think as her 16th birthday approaches. Its less than a week before the Birthday Ball, where she will choose her husband from a group of unappealing suitors. Boring.... But things around the kingdom get pretty interesting when Princess Patricia Priscilla disguises herself as a peasant and starts attending the village school. And it doesn't hurt that the new schoolmaster is young and handsome.

Eine atemberaubende Geschichte über das Aufwachsen in einer perfekten, vollkommen durchorganisierten Welt, ohne Schmerzen, ohne Berge, ohne Farben. Jonas aber spürt, dass er anders ist und individuelle Bedürfnisse hat. Ein spannender Entwicklungsroman, in dem Jonas erfährt, dass Freiheit und Individualität hohe Güter sind, aber auch schmerzliche Erfahrungen mit sich bringen. Meisterhaft und mit großem Einfühlungsvermögen gelesen von Monika Bleibtreu.

Listening and conversation with the treasured author of Number the Stars, The Giver, and many other favorite works for kids and teens. Special guest Sean Astin ( The Goonies, The Lord of the Rings) will join Lowry for a celebration of The Newbery Medal-winning Number the Stars 25th anniversary. He and his wife have purchased the film rights and are proud to be adapting Number the Stars for the screen. Fellow author Lauren Oliver ( Panic, Delirium) leads the conversation.