Emily Arrow Promises to Do Better This Year

Emily Arrow Promises to Do Better This Year
Author: Patricia Reilly Giff
Publisher: Yearling
Total Pages: 82
Release: 1990-10-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0440403693

Ms. Rooney asks her students to make New Year's resolutions and Emily promises "to do better"--at everything. But can she keep such a challenging resolution?

Purple Climbing Days

Purple Climbing Days
Author: Patricia Reilly Giff
Publisher: Yearling
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1985
Genre: Children's stories
ISBN: 9780440473091

A story about a boy who is afraid of climbing a rope in the gym.

Pickle Puss

Pickle Puss
Author: Patricia Reilly Giff
Publisher: Yearling
Total Pages: 82
Release: 1986-07-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0440468442

It's August, and Emily has big plans at the library. She's going to read lots of books and tack a paper fish next to her name for each one. Then Dawn Bosco says she can read more books than Emily. Not only that, both Emily and Dawn want to keep Pickle Puss, a stray cat thay found. They decide that whoever reads the most books can keep cat. When Emily adds a fish for a book she read along time ago, she has one more fish than Dawn. She knows she's cheating, but she wants to keep the cat. What a pickle she's in.

Wake Up, Emily, It's Mother's Day

Wake Up, Emily, It's Mother's Day
Author: Patricia Reilly Giff
Publisher: Yearling
Total Pages: 84
Release: 1991
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780440404552

Emily Arrow needs to think of a good Mother's Day present to give to her mother.

Beast and the Halloween Horror

Beast and the Halloween Horror
Author: Patricia Reilly Giff
Publisher: Yearling Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1990
Genre: Blind
ISBN: 9780440403357

A story about the kids of Polk Street School.

B-E-S-T Friends

B-E-S-T Friends
Author: Patricia Reilly Giff
Publisher: Perfection Learning
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1988-11
Genre: Children's stories
ISBN: 9780812472110

Stacy dislikes being partners with the new girl in school. Annie doesn't do anything right, and she is so different from everyone else. Annie even eats potatoes for breakfast. But when Stacy tries some one day, she likes them and decides being different is not so bad after all.

The Continuum Encyclopedia of Children's Literature

The Continuum Encyclopedia of Children's Literature
Author: Bernice E. Cullinan
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 930
Release: 2005-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780826417787

Provides articles covering children's literature from around the world as well as biographical and critical reviews of authors including Avi, C.S. Lewis, J.K. Rowling, and Anno Mitsumasa.

The Beast in Ms. Rooney's Room

The Beast in Ms. Rooney's Room
Author: Patricia Reilly Giff
Publisher: Yearling
Total Pages: 82
Release: 1984-08-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0440404851

It's September again.What does it mean for Richard "Beast" Best to be left back? It means being teased by his old friends while he's stuck facing the same old teacher in the same old classroom. He even has to take a special reading class with "babies" like Emily Arrow and Matthew Jackson. And just like last year, he can't help getting into trouble.But with the help of Mrs. Paris, the reading teacher, Beast starts to enjoy reading and just might find a way to help the second grade win the school banner for best class.

Fish Face

Fish Face
Author: Patricia Reilly Giff
Publisher: Perfection Learning
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1984
Genre: Friendship
ISBN: 9780812435771

Beginning reader.

The Valentine Star

The Valentine Star
Author: Patricia Reilly Giff
Publisher: Yearling
Total Pages: 80
Release: 2009-01-21
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0307548651

Celebrate Valentine's Day with this classroom tale! It's time for everyone in Ms. Rooney's room to make cards for the Valentine box. Emily Arrow couldn't be happier when Dawn Bosco gives her some colored stars to decorate her cards. She plans to make a special one for Ms. Vincent, the new student teacher. But things take a turn for the worse when Ms. Rooney asks Emily to be class monitor. Emily feels important sitting at the teacher's desk, until Sherri Dent leaves her seat without Emily's permission. Emily reports her. That's when Sherri tells Emily, "You'll be sorry." Emily is really worried. What will Sherri do to get even?