Sarah Weeks

Ravi has just moved to the United States from India and has always been at the top of his class; Joe has lived in the same town his whole life and has learning problems--but when their lives intersect in the first week of fifth grade they are brought together by a common enemy (the biggest bully in their class) and the need to take control of their lives.

You couldn't really tell about Mama's brain just from looking at her, but it was obvious as soon as she spoke. She had a high voice, like a little girl's, and she only knew 23 words. I know this for a fact, because we kept a list of the things Mama said tacked to the inside of the kitchen cabinet. Most of the words were common ones, like good and more and hot, but there was one word only my mother said: soof. Although she lives an unconventional...

Jamie Reardon has always heard that bad things come in threes. So after his cat, Mister, dies, his father leaves, and his aunt Sapphy has an accident that causes her memory to develop a skip, Jamie hopes his life will go back to being as normal as cornflakes. But unfortunately there's one more bad thing in store for Jamie-something he'd give anything to be able to forget-and this one leaves him feeling like a stranger to himself. Jamie tries in vain...

Different animals ask to join a fish in a tub until the tub is full.

From the award-winning author of SO B. IT, a story about family, friendship, and...pie! When Alice's Aunt Polly, the Pie Queen of Ipswitch, passes away, she takes with her the secret to her world-famous pie-crust recipe. Or does she? In her will, Polly leaves the recipe to her extraordinarily fat, remarkably disagreeable cat, Lardo . . . and then leaves Lardo in the care of Alice.Suddenly, the whole town is wondering how you leave a recipe to a cat....

"Get up!" cries Mac. "It's hot outside. So hot we need to take a ride. The bus will take us to the sea. Get up now, Cheese, and come with me!" Best friends Mac and Cheese are back-and this time, Mac wants Cheese to go to the beach with him. But oh, no, Cheese doesn't like the beach at all! Mac finally convinces Cheese that the sea is the place to be. So with their bags packed, the friends set off-only to miss their bus. Can Cheese find a way to give...

A young penguin and his father receive comfort from each other as they wait for the mother penguin to return from her diving.

From morning to night, a young child playfully grabs and throws items, including a bathtime rubber ducky and snacktime raisins.

Neither a long list of rules, nor the inability to find the perfect gift--Cheddar Jam--nor being locked in a bathroom with a juggling bear will keep quirky fourth-grader Oggie Cooder from attending neighbor Donnica Perfecto's birthday pool party.

Quirky fourth-grader Oggie Cooder goes from being shunned to everyone's best friend when his uncanny ability to chew slices of cheese into the shapes of states wins him a slot on a popular television talent show, but he soon learns the perils of being a celebrity--and having a neighbor girl as his manager.