One summer Little Bear makes friends with Emily and her doll Lucy.

Irene Latham, who is white, and Charles Waters, who is black, present paired poems about topics including family dinners, sports, recess, and much more. This relatable collection explores different experiences of race in America.

Forging a powerful team online, two gamers who do not realize that they attend the same middle school find their virtual and real lives turned upside down by an act of wrongdoing that challenges their partnership.

"This edition prints the first and only text of Mark Twain's masterpiece ever based on his complete manuscript - including its first 663 pages, half the book, lost for over a hundred years until discovered in 1990 in a Los Angeles attic. Using this newly restored manuscript, the editors have recovered thousands of details of wording, spelling, and punctuation which were misread, "corrected," or simply overlooked by Mark Twain's "typewriter copyist"...

"Deja and Josiah are seasonal best friends. Every autumn, all through high school, they've worked together at the world's best pumpkin patch. They say good-bye every Halloween, and they're reunited every September 1. But this Halloween is different. Josiah and Deja are finally seniors. It's their last season at the Patch, their last shift together—their last good-bye. Josie's ready to spend the whole night feeling melancholy about it. (He's the...

Mackenzie Blue has a crush! But how can she get Landon-the cutest boy in school-to notice her? The class's new rock-and-roll musical is her chance. Reasons why our musical is going to be amazing: I could be the star! Landon could be my co-star... which means we'll hang out together. Working on the sets, props, music, script, and costumes will be tons of fun. There's so much to do, I'd better get started! Between her crush, the musical, and her friends-not...

Dear Edie, I wanted you to know so many things. I wanted to tell you them in person, as you grew up by my side. But it wasn't to be… When Jess gives birth to Edie, it's the happiest day of her life. She knows, from the moment her little girl's hand grasps her finger, that her daughter owns her heart, completely and utterly. And even though Edie's father has left them, and single motherhood isn't easy, her beautiful, innocent child brings her untold...

Stacey is caught in a loyalty tug-of-war between old friends and new. Ann M. Martin is the creator of The Baby-sitters Club, which has more than 190 million books in print, making it one of the most popular series in the history of publishing. Her novels include A Corner of the Universe (a Newbery Honor Book), Belle Teal, Here Today, A Dog's Life, On Christmas Eve, and the Main Street and Family Tree series, as well as the much-loved collaborations...

Celebrate the power of friendship with all four of the beloved Frog and Toad I Can Read stories by Arnold Lobel, now in one volume. This treasury includes the complete art and text from four classics: Frog and Toad Are Friends (1970), Frog and Toad Together (1971), Frog and Toad All Year (1976), and Days with Frog and Toad (1979). Share the adventures of best friends Frog and Toad as they fly a kite, resist the temptation of cookies, and search for...

For fans of Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan series comes a captivating family saga focused on a willful young woman's struggles against her oppressive small town by acclaimed Italian author Rosa Ventrella. In old Bari, everyone knows Maria De Santis as Malacarne, the bad seed. Nicknamed for her dark features, volcanic temperament, and resistance to rules, the headstrong girl can only imagine the possibilities that lie outside her poverty-stricken neighborhood....