Mrs. Derkman is a finanlist for Teacher of the Year, and class 3A must be observed by a contest official. But can Katie calm down the rowdy class when Katie turns into Mrs. Deakman?
Katie is loving fourth grade, is making some fabulous fans, and finds the track team a blast. But when Coach Debbie keeps Katie on the bench, Katie finds the slight unfair. Yes, she is the slowest, but she wants to complete with the rest of her teammates. When the coach finally gives Katie her chance to shine, will she help or hurt the team?
A trip to the Natural History Museum goes completely wrong. When Katie won't participate in her classmates shenanigans, they call her a goodie-goodie when she doesn't join in. The mean tour guide, Mr. Weir isn't making things any better. When Mr. Weir's meanness rubs off on Katie, the trip suddenly gets a whole lot worse. Can Katie make things right?
'So your spell changed Basil into a bulldog?' gasped Daniel.
'Yes,' said Heckie. 'I adore bulldogs.'
Heckie is not just a witch. She's a good witch who wants to make the world a better place. So, with her Toe of Transformation and her Knuckle of Power she turns unpleasant people into animals.
But to her surprise, Basil's parents want their son back. . .
Not Just A Witch is a wonderfully spooky young-fiction title from the award-winning author of Journey to the River Sea, Eva Ibbotson.
'The perfect alternative for Harry Potter fans' Independent on Sunday
'Eva Ibbotson has assumed the mantle of Roald Dahl.' School Librarian
Charlotte returns in Paris to search for her long lost cat and to visit her best Parisian friend, Sophie. When a stolen Picasso sketch turns up in Charlotte's backpack, the BSG's bon voyage gifts become the detective tools for solving the mystery.
Junior Blossom has finally created the ultimate invention--the Green Phantom. It's big, black, Day-Glo green, and it's beautiful! All it needs is the secret ingredient.
The whole family makes a promise to ensure that Junior's invention will be a success, a Blossom promise that can never be broken.
Family and friends gather to launch the Green Phantom, but where are Pap and his dog, Mud? They wouldn't break a Blossom promise unless they were in serious trouble....
From the Trade Paperback edition.
Three children, forced to alter their comfortable lifestyle when their father is taken away by strangers, move with their mother to a simple cottage near a railway station where their days are filled with excitement and adventure.
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"My gown suited me as well as I could ever hope, though I could not but envy the young ladies who would attract the honest compliments of the night. My bodice did not plunge as dramatically as some, and no man - no man I would ever want to meet, surely - could fit his hands round my waist. What I lacked in beauty I would simply have to earn with charm..." With her parents lost to assassins, Princess Ben ends up under the thumb of the conniving Queen Sophia. Starved and miserable, locked in the castle's highest tower, Ben stumbles upon a mysterious enchanted room. So begins her secret education in the magical arts: mastering an obstinate flying broomstick, furtively emptying the castle pantries, setting her hair on fire... But Ben's private adventures are soon overwhelmed by a mortal threat to her kingdom. Can Ben save the country and herself from foul tyranny?
As comforting as a soft blanket and warm as a goodnight hug, Eric Metaxas' lullaby comes to life on this wonderful new audiobook combining two fabulous stories: On the Night You Were Born (a New York Times bestseller) and It¹s Time to Sleep, My Love. The program features original music composed and performed by Sally Taylor, daughter of music legends James Taylor and Carly Simon and mother of new son, Bodhi. It's Time to Sleep, My Love is a 2009 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.
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