Linda Bailey

Eddie is a tiny green bug who loves to read and who lives behind the chalkboard in Mr. Wang's fourth-grade classroom with his parents, his 53 brothers and sisters, and his Aunt Min. But when Aunt Min goes to the school library and never returns, Eddie leaves the comfort of his home for the first time and begins the dangerous trek through the elementary school. After dodging running sneakers, falling books, and terrifying spiders, Eddie reaches the...

Stanley's home life is suddenly interrupted when Fluffy the cat moves in and all attempts to make friends is met with a paw across the face.

Our favorite party animal Stanley, the star of The Adventures of Stanley series, is back. This time, once he discovers a way out of the yard, he's in for an exciting late-night ride with his friends!

Join Stanley and his friends in the best dogpile ever as they show us humans that dogs know best, and that what really counts is having fun!

"Lewis Dearborn is a lonely, anxious, "terminally shy" boy of eleven when his great-grandfather passes away and leaves Lewis's family with his decaying seaside mansion. Lewis is initially delighted with his new bedroom, a secluded tower in a remote part of the house. Then he discovers that it's already occupied -- by the ghosts of seven dead pirates. Worse, the ghosts expect him to help them re-take their ship, now restored and on display in a local...

"Exploring what it feels like to be excluded and included, this celebration of one-of-a-kindness follows Dotty, a single unmatched mitten, as she learns, with the help of the Little Girl who owns her, that by being an individual instead of "matching," everyone can belong."--

"How does a story begin? Sometimes it begins with a dream, and a dreamer. Mary is one such dreamer, a little girl who learns to read by tracing the letters on the tombstone of her famous feminist mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, and whose only escape from her strict father and overbearing stepmother is through the stories she reads and imagines. Unhappy at home, she seeks independence, and at the age of sixteen runs away with poet Percy Bysshe Shelley,...

"Lizzy wants to be the best skater in the world, but skating isn't as easy as it looks. Then Lizzy uses her imagination and finds her own way to shine" Cf. Our choice, 2002.

A humorous survey of the practical things dinosaurs can do explains how otherwise unused dinosaurs can offer a perfect excuse for forgetting homework while also making good nutcrackers, kites, and burglar alarms.