Based on a real incident that occurred in the island town of Vinalhaven, Maine, this rhyming story recounts what happens when a really big flatbed truck carrying a mysterious, covered load across a small island gets stuck on a tight curve and blocks traffic in both directions.

When members of the Shooting Stars and Petite Picassos team up for a combined STEM and art project, Astrid is torn between her best friend, Hallie, and her arch-rival, Pearl, until she overcomes her initial suspicions and realizes being a good teammate is more about working together than winning.

"Thunder is strong. Cluck is smart. Thunder is stuck in quicksand! Can Cluck think of a way to get him out?"--Page 4 of cover.

While his corvid buddies spend their days cracking jokes at the dump, raven Otto P. Nudd invents things with his human neighbor Old Man Bartleby, but when one of Bartleby's contraptions puts him in danger, Otto must join forces with kids and critters to save the Old Man.

When Daniel, Joy, and Kimani suddenly find themselves stranded on a mysterious island, they must work together to find clues hidden around that somehow hold the key to finding their way back home. Includes STEAM related activities.

Macy's little sister has wings that are too small, so Eva's class decides to raise money to buy her a flying chair, and half the class opens a bakery, and the other half opens a candy store--but soon competition between the two stores becomes more important than their goal, and Eva needs to convince the other owls that they will collect more money if everyone works as a team.

Every night when Sonia goes to bed, Mami asks her the same question: how did you help today? And since Sonia wants to help her community, just like her Mami does, she always makes sure she has a good answer to Mami's question. In a story inspired by her own family's desire to help others, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor takes young readers on a journey through a neighborhood where kids and adults, activists and bus drivers, friends and strangers...

"Flooded is the funny and beautifully illustrated tale of animals who live in a city that is ever so slowly flooding. The flood comes gradually at first. A business lion reads about it in the paper over his breakfast and absent-mindedly says 'hmm!', but does nothing about it. All the animals ignore the obvious and go about their busy lives, disjointed from one another and preoccupied by their own problems. Eventually, the flood water reaches a height...

Underappreciated Glue feels invisible and wants to be noticed like Pencil and Markers, so with help from her friend Glitter she finds a way to shine.

"A poem about the transformational change that happens when people stop acting alone and start doing things together"--