This funny take on the difference between being a baby and being an older sibling features a big sister who lists all the things her baby sibling cannot do that she can do. 'When you're a baby, you don't read books. You eat them.' This very silly book points out lots of things that are great about being the older sibling, but also ends on a note of affection between the baby and the older sister.

Similar books: How to Get Married...By Me, The Bride by Sally Lloyd-Jones and Sue Heap

Reviewed by: emc

Date read: 6/17/2010

ISBN-10: 0375838430

ISBN-13: 9780375838439

Check the library catalog

With a swimming medal, the key to a mansion, and a comic book about a half-man/half-rat as her only clues, a twelve-year-old girl seeks the truth about her father's mysterious death near an island in the Pacific Northwest.

Reviewed by: sc

Date read: 4/13/2009

ISBN-10: 0060297719

ISBN-13: 9780060297718

Check the library catalog

Due to a bet, Billy finds himself faced with having to eat 15 worms in fifteen days. With his family's support, he has to figure out how to make them palatable- boiled, stewed, fried, or with anything from peanut butter to horseradish. Has Billy bitten off more than he can chew?

Reviewed by: sc

Date read: 4/29/2009

ISBN-10: 0440421853

ISBN-13: 9780440421856

Check the library catalog

Willimena is starting third grade when she finds out she'll be in Mrs. Sweetly's class. Mrs. Sweetly is the meanest teacher at the Harriet Tubman School. Willimena decides that to avoid trouble, she will be the best, nicest student Mrs. Sweetly has ever known. The plan is working until Willimena loses the class guinea pig. How will Willimena cope with Mrs. Sweetly now that she's no longer the perfect student?

Reviewed by: emc

Date read: 9/10/2010

ISBN-10: 0786813229

ISBN-13: 9780786813223

Check the library catalog

'How to Make Friends with a Giant' by Gennifer Choldenko is a story that celebrates friendship and an individual's uniqueness. How can Jake, the shortest boy in the school help Jacomo, the GIANT boy, who just moved in next door, adjust to his new school? Having experienced most of the same kind of problems, but in reverse, Jake knows exactly how to help. The young reader will love this tender book about the true meaning of friendship.

Similar authors: Arnold Lobel, Cynthia Rylant

Similar books: Iris & Walter: True Friends by Elissa Haden Guest; The Best of Friends by Pirkko Vainio; Friend Forever by Sally Grindley; Alien & Possum: Friends No Matter What by Tony Johnston; Frog and Toad are Friends by Arnold Lobel; That's What Friends Are For by Valerie Gorbachev

Reviewed by: mb

Date read: 7/20/2011

ISBN-10: 0399237798

ISBN-13: 9780399237799

Check the library catalog