Helen Plum Library

When he decides to turn his fifth grade teacher's love of the dictionary around on her, clever Nick Allen invents a new word and begins a chain of events that quickly moves beyond his control

Told she cannot step over the line to play school with the older girls, Min builds a catapult and flies over it, instead

"Full-color photographs show trains and related noise-making features including brakes, engines horns, crossings, and door chimes. Repeating text identifies the machine and presents rhythmic onomatopoeia for the sound it produces. A final spread directed at caregivers shares age-appropriate enrichment activities for toddlers learning to identify sounds, rhyme, rhythm, and related language structures."--

In this wordless retelling of an Aesop fable, an adventuresome mouse proves that even small creatures are capable of great deeds when he rescues the King of the Jungle

Mother Duck is on the run trying to keep her ducklings safe

Dinosaurs demonstrate the wrong and right ways to interact with others

A group of animals decide to have a picnic and travel all around the countryside, up hills and over rivers, searching for the perfect place to set up their food. But trouble looms -- when they finally find the right spot, the all-important cake is missing! Can you help the animals recover their cake?

Based on his talks at New York's St. Patrick's Cathedral on Good Friday 2015, Rev. James Martin offers a portrait of Jesus, using his last words on the cross to reveal how deeply he understood our predicaments, what it means to be fully human, and why we can turn to Christ completely, in mind, heart, and soul

One happy mutt is digging up dirt when he is joined by his equally joyful friends. They're certainly not expecting to encounter groundhogs, mice, moles, bears, and pirates! New readers will delight in this joyful story with its surprise climax. The characters have energy and charm that will delight young children as they embark on a satisfying first-time reading adventure

"Sometimes, Tom is a bad dog. But he can be good, too! His family loves him no matter what"--