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Other students laugh when Rigoberto, an immigrant from Venezuela, introduces himself but later, he meets Angelina and discovers that he is not the only one who feels like an outsider.

When the other eggs in his carton behave badly, the good egg feels like he needs to be perfect.

"It's Rashin's first day of school in America! Everything is a different shape than what she's used to: from the foods on her breakfast plate to the letters in the books! And the kids' families are from all over! The new teacher asks each child to imagine the shape of home on a map. Rashin knows right away what she'll say: Iran looks like a cat! What will the other kids say? Open this book to join Rashin in discovering the true things that shape a...

Encourages readers to accept and love themselves as they are and advises them to be confident, curious, adaptable, and willing to speak up.

Highlights the typical physical features and behaviors of the collared lizards that live in the desert. Includes a map, diagrams, a glossary, resources for further information, and color photographs.

A young disabled girl and her brother are evacuated from London to the English countryside during World War II, where they find life to be much sweeter away from their abusive mother.

A child presents ten essential rules of birthday wishes, from planning the right party through having the right dessert--with a light to blow out--to keeping the wish secret.

Gus's workshop is chockful of useless odds and ends. But when his friend Rico comes over with a problem - his scooter seat is way too small for a rhino - Gus finds just the thing to solve it. He creates a fabulous new vehicular contraption with an old lounge chair! One by one Gus's friends bring him their vehicles and Gus solves their troubles with ingenious solutions - a cooling system made with a fridge that doubles as an ice-cream machine, a burst...

Digger and his friends meet a hungry caterpillar who chooses Digger as its safe place to make a cocoon, making Digger cease his work to care for the small creature who surprises him and his friends.

On a stormy night two hundred years ago, a young woman sat in a dark house and dreamed of her life as a writer. She longed to follow the path her own mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, had started down, but young Mary Shelley had yet to be inspired. As the night wore on, Mary grew more anxious. The next day was the deadline that her friend, the poet Lord Byron, had set for writing the best ghost story. After much talk of science and the secrets of life,...