The Math Wiz

The Math WizBy: Betsy Duffey Illustrator: Janet Wilson Does "Math Wiz" have to equal "Sports Dud"? Marty Malone thinks no problem is too complicated for him. Then he starts third grade and learns that being a math wiz won't stop him from getting picked last in gym class. Kids like tom Ballan are so much better at sports that Marty will never be able to catch up. Trying harder doesn't work. Trying to get out of gym doesn't work. But what if Marty makes a friend in

this educational book helps children to look at what they might like to achieve

but a spirit in the library’s romance section has other ideas

and Chloe is the only one available to help

Plus readers can watch Pinkalicious and Peter on the funtastic PBS Kids TV series Pinkalicious & Peterrific

By: Rebecca Stead     The instant New York Times bestseller from the author of the Newbery Medal winner When You Reach Me: a story about spies

a wild rainstorm of a book

there’s something rotten in the small town of Pickax—at least to the sensitive noses of newspaperman Jim Qwilleran and his Siamese cats Koko and Yum Yum

and political innovation

and its distrust of individuality are stifling economic revival

- The Ugly Duckling

the New World was far from being a vast expanse of empty wilderness: it was home to some seventy-five million people

“A book that reads like a prose poem