Itsy Bitsy , who prefers to be called I.B., is the smallest student in school. The 3 Bad Bugs tease him but LB. dreams of playing his piccolo in their band so he tries to be friendly. Black Widow (Patti Labelle) inspires the 3 Bad Bugs and LE. to venture into the halls of a human high school looking for a "Little Miss Muffet" to scare.

Lea should really be practicing the violin but she sneaks into her dad's lab and fiddles with his super telescope instead. Before she knows what hit her, Lea, her dog Paddy, and a very young rematerialized Mozart are floating through space. They come to a rough landing on top of an auditioning tap dancing star named Twinkle.

Lauren Bacall gives a terrifyingly icy performance as Freezelda the Ice Queen, who hires Hoodwink the rat (rock star, Bryan Adams), to fetch some kittens to make fur mittens. Meanwhile. The three feisty little kittens miss their bus and on the way to school. They find Hoodwink frozen solid and they thaw him out next to a fire.

According to the New York Times, Noam Chomsky is "arguably the most important intellectual alive." But he isn't easy to read . . . or at least he wasn't until these books came along. Made up of intensively edited speeches and interviews, they offer something not found anywhere else: pure Chomsky, with every dazzling idea and penetrating insight intact, delivered in clear, accessible, listener-friendly prose. Published as four short books in the famous...

Through narrative nonfiction, tells the story of Abby Sunderland and her attempt to be the youngest person ever to sail solo around the world.

Through narrative nonfiction, readers learn the story of Aron Ralston, a man who became trapped under a rock and had to cut off his own arm to survive.

Through narrative nonfiction text, readers learn the miraculous story of the 33 Chilean miners who survived being trapped underground for 69 days. Additional features to aid comprehension include a table of contents, fact-filled captions, callouts, and sidebars, a glossary, sources for further research, a listing of source notes, and an introduction to the author. Each narrative-nonfiction book in the True Stories Real People series tells an amazing...

"A follow-up to the popular Real Kids, Real Stories, Real Change, this inspiring sequel spans the globe again with true accounts of ordinary kids showing extraordinary character. Thirty short inspirational stories are divided into six character traits (courage, creativity, kindness, persistence, resilience, and responsibility), and feature kids facing adversity from bullying in an American middle school to surviving persecution in the war-torn streets...