All Lazy Jack wants to do is sleep, sleep, sleep! Mom says, 'This won't do,' and sends Jack out to work for the builder, the farmer, the dairyman, the baker, the fishmonger, and the grocer. Read this French folktale, 'Lazy Jack' by Vivian French to see the hilarious things Jack does with his payments of fish, cheese, milk, and many more. The young reader will delight in the zany illustrations created by Russell Ayto depicting life in a typical French village. You'll need to decide for yourself if Jack is truly lazy or in fact, a very clever boy!

Similar authors: Cynthia C. DeFelice; Marica Brown; Charles Perrault

Similar books: Lazy Jack by Tony Ross; Lazy Jack and the Silent Princess by Mitchell Motomora; Floramel & Esteban by Emilie Buchwald; Lazy Robert by Nancy DeRosa

Reviewed by: mb

Date read: 7/20/2011

ISBN-10: 1564021300

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Eleven-year-old Tom, presumed dead after drifting away down a river, finds himself trapped in a series of underground caves, with another survivor, and a dog, pursued by murderous treasure-hunters and searched for by his widowed mother.

Reviewed by: sc

Date read: 3/25/2009

ISBN-10: 0375838740

ISBN-13: 9780375838743

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This book is about a boy who is going to 4th grade and has a war. It's a lemonade stand war with his sister. Evan is a people person. Jesse is math smart. Who will be the first to reach $100?

Awards nominated: 2014 Bluestem Nominee

Reviewed by: Camp Read-a-Lot Reader

Date read: 5/21/2010

ISBN-10: 0547237650

ISBN-13: 9780547237657

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Commenter: Camp Read-a-lot Read, grade 3

Commenter: Donna, grade 0

Long ago, in Ireland, there lived an man know as Old Pat. Old Pat was a very good harpist, he was also very kind and very generous. In the same village lived a man known as Young Tom. Tom learned to play the harp from Old Pat, but Tom was boastful and shelfish. The two traveled together to the King's Harping Contest. On the way, they come across a leprechaun in trouble. Will Old Pat's generosity get him in trouble with the little people or will it win him the leprechauns' gold?

Reviewed by: caroll

Date read: 4/20/2010

ISBN-10: 0066239745

ISBN-13: 9780066239743

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Sent to Camp Happy Harmony to learn how to get along with each other, pairs of brothers and sisters chronicle how they come to suspect the dubious intentions of the family running the camp in letters home.

Reviewed by: sc

Date read: 3/27/2009

ISBN-10: 0380975394

ISBN-13: 9780380975396

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Commenter: St. Charles Reader, grade 0