Minn and Jake : Book Room

Minn and Jake : Book Room
Author: Janet S. Wong
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008
Genre:
ISBN: 9780329687571

Fifth-grader Minn, the tallest girl in school, begins a rocky friendship with Jake, a new student who is not only very short, but is also afraid of the worms and lizards that Minn likes to collect.

Minn and Jake

Minn and Jake
Author: Janet S. Wong
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Total Pages: 155
Release: 2015-09-29
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1466894849

A surprising friendship Do you ever feel like you've somehow lost your true best friend? Minn feels this way. So does Jake. But Minn and Jake have no intention of being friends. Minn's a string bean. Jake's a shrimp. Minn's a girl. Jake's a boy. And in fifth grade, who wants a best friend of the opposite sex? But Minn and Jake are forced together by circumstances, which only strengthen their resistance . . . until Minn takes Jake lizard hunting. There are lots of good ways to choose a friend. This enchanting free-verse novel, accompanied by expressive, humorous black-and-white drawings, proves that sometimes friendship just happens.

Minn and Jake's Almost Terrible Summer

Minn and Jake's Almost Terrible Summer
Author: Janet S. Wong
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Total Pages: 106
Release: 2015-09-29
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1466894857

There are a few things / about your best friend that you can only learn / when you see where he's from. Minn knew / that Jake was from the city. But she didn't know / that his grandmother was Korean. That he liked taking bubble baths. / That his brother, Soup, might be an eating champion. / That Jake was a cheater, and that he had a . . . / girlfriend?! There are some things / about your best friend that it's better not / to know. Bouncing free verse and playful black-and-white illustrations combine to make this a charming follow-up to Minn and Jake. Minn and Jake's Almost Terrible Summer is a 2009 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

The Trip Back Home

The Trip Back Home
Author: Janet S. Wong
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2000
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780152007843

A young girl and her mother travel to Korea to visit their extended family.

You Have to Write

You Have to Write
Author: Janet S. Wong
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2002-07-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780689834097

You have to write! It's a class assignment. But you have nothing to write about. All the other kids seem to have something to tell because they start in right away. What can you do? Stop and think. No one else can tell your stories -- about your family, your dog or cat. No one else can tell how it was when your library book got soaked in the rain. But what if you don't like what you write? There are all sorts of ways to change it, to make it better. Keep on playing with your words, putting them together in different ways. You want whatever you write to be good. It will get better and better as you work on it. This is an encouraging book, sympathetically illustrated by Teresa Flavin's charming pictures, for all young readers who worry when they're told to write something.

The Dumpster Diver

The Dumpster Diver
Author: Janet S. Wong
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2007
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780763623807

Once a month--every week in the summer--Steve the electrician dons special gear and, with the help of youngsters who live in his building, dives into a dumpster seeking useful objects that they can transform into imaginative new ones.

Grump

Grump
Author: Janet S. Wong
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2001
Genre: Children's stories
ISBN: 9780689834851

A very tired and slightly grumpy Mommy falls asleep before baby at nap time. Full-color illustrations.

Behind the Wheel

Behind the Wheel
Author: Janet S. Wong
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 56
Release: 1999
Genre: American poetry
ISBN: 0689825315

Thirty-six poems look at various aspects of driving, including passing the written driver's test, being pulled over by a cop, and having an accident, and treat them as metaphors for life.

Matching Books and Readers

Matching Books and Readers
Author: Nancy L. Hadaway
Publisher: Guilford Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2010-08-09
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1606238833

Providing practical guidance and resources, this book helps teachers harness the power of children's literature for developing ELLs' literacy skills and language proficiency. The authors show how carefully selected fiction, nonfiction, and poetry can support students' learning across the curriculum. Criteria and guiding questions are presented for matching books and readers based on text features, literacy and language proficiency, and student background knowledge and interests. Interspersed throughout are essays and poems by well-known children's authors that connect in a personal way with the themes explored in the chapters. The annotated bibliography features over 600 engaging, culturally relevant trade titles.

Night Garden

Night Garden
Author: Janet S. Wong
Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007-11-27
Genre:
ISBN: 9781416968160

In 15 poems, Wong records some of the many dreams--from the familiar to the outlandish and everywhere in between--that she or her friends have had. With Paschkis's paintings, which reflect the glowing colors of dreams, these nighttime visions create a garden, tempting to explore and evocative of dreams of our very own. Full color.