Jesse Aarons is in the 5th grade and has trained all summer to become the fastest runner in school. He becomes upset when new classmate Leslie Burke outruns him and everyone else. Despite this and some other striking differences, the two become fast friends. Together, they create Terabithia where they rule as king and queen and is a land filled with monsters, trolls, ogres, and giants. This friendship helps Jesse cope with a tragedy that makes him...

Eleven year-old Akeelah Anderson's life is not easy: her father is dead, her mom ignores her, her brother runs with the local gangbangers. She is a smart girl, but her environment threatens to strangle her aspirations. Responding to a threat by her school's principal, Akeelah decides to participate in a spelling bee to avoid detention for her many absences. Much to her surprise and embarrassment, she wins. Her principal asks her to seek coaching from...

A snowman built by elementary school children comes to life after they place a magicians top hat on his head. Frosty befriends Karen, one of the little girls, and she tries to make certain that Frosty lives on.

The animated characters of the '70s come to life in this movie to help a troubled teenager as he experiences the heartfelt emotions and hilarious absurdities of the real world. Bill Cosby, creator of the original cartoon, co-stars.

"Homework can be horrible! But homework isn't going anywhere, and kids need to learn to do it-without throwing up. This updated classic provides specific tips for starting, doing, and finishing homework-and maybe even laughing while they learn. Kids will also learn how to make a homework schedule, when to do the hardest homework (first!), the benefits of doing homework, and more-serious suggestions delivered with wit and humor because laughter makes...

Buck Howard is a mentalist extraordinaire who used to spend his days in the limelight. But nowadays, it's become clear to everyone but Buck that his act has long ago lost its luster. Yet, Buck is convinced his comeback is imminent. With the help of his new personal assisstant, recent law school drop-out and would-be writer Troy, not to mention his fiery publicist, Buck surprisingly lands back in the American consciousness, taking Troy along for the...

En qué momento utilizar este libro: Cuando no hayas terminado tu tarea. Cuidado: Podrás utilizar cada excusa sólo una vez. A humorous story about the absurd excuses for not doing homework.

"En clase de Ciencias, Judy se entera de la destrucción de los bosques tropicales, de que hay muchos animales en peligro de extinción y de que el planeta entero tiene seros problemas ambientales. Entonces, ¡lanza una cruzada ecologista! Y, como siepre, lleva las cosas hasta el extremo..."-- "When Judy Moody gets serious about protecting the environment, her little brother Stink thinks she is overdoing it, but she manages to inspire her third grade...

Enferma en casa, una niña se pierde la fiesta de disfraces en la escuela, por lo que decide ponerse su disfraz de conejo al día siguiente; pero cuando los otros niños se ríen de ella, ella está triste, hasta que aparece un niño con su disfraz de zanahoria, y pronto los otros niños se unen a su juego. Sick at home, a young girl misses the costume party at school, so she decides to wear her rabbit costume the next day; but when the other children...

Join Benjamin, Todd, Kathy, and their friends in a world where sometimes the students are smarter than their teachers, the sub has a third ear on the top of her head, and the classrooms are built one on top of another in a school thirty stories high!