Annika Riz, Math Whiz

Annika Riz, Math Whiz
Author: Claudia Mills
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 91
Release: 2014-05-13
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0374303363

Annika Riz loves math more than anything, so when she hears about a sudoku contest at the local public library, she is determined to win it—maybe then her friends Kelsey Green and Izzy Barr will see that math is just as cool as reading and running. When the school carnival, the biggest fundraiser of the year, comes around, Annika realizes her class booth is losing money by selling their lemonade too cheaply. Annika embraces her math skills, saves the day, and shows her friends that math can be useful and even a bit of fun, too, in Claudia Mills's Annika Riz, Math Whiz.

Annika Riz, Math Whiz

Annika Riz, Math Whiz
Author: Claudia Mills
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2014-05-13
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0374303355

Annika hopes to change her best friends' hatred of math by winning a Soduko contest, but she does not realize how important their lack of mathematical ability is until they make a mistake at the school carnival.

Kelsey Green, Reading Queen

Kelsey Green, Reading Queen
Author: Claudia Mills
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 79
Release: 2013-06-04
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0374374880

Kelsey Green is the best reader in the third grade--well, maybe tied for best with know-it-all Simon Ellis. When the principal Mr. Boone announces a school-wide reading contest, complete with a pizza party for the winning class and a special certificate for the top readers in each grade, she knows she's just the person to lead Mrs. Molina's third graders to victory. But how can they win when her classmate Cody Harmon doesn't want to read anything, and even Kelsey's best friends Annika and Izzy don't live up to her expectations? And could Simon possibly be reading all of those books that he claims he is, or is he lying to steal Kelsey's rightful spot at the top? Kelsey Green, Reading Queen is the first book in Claudia Mills's Franklin School Friends series.

Izzy Barr, Running Star

Izzy Barr, Running Star
Author: Claudia Mills
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 110
Release: 2015-04-28
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0374335796

Izzy Barr is the star athlete of the third grade: she hits homeruns on her softball team and is one of the fastest runners in her class. But at home, her half-brother, Dustin, seems to be her father's favorite athlete—why else would her dad go to all of his games and miss so many of hers? Izzy pretends that she doesn't care, but as she, her friends Annika Riz and Kelsey Green, and the rest of their class are gearing up for class field day, she can't help but hope her dad will be there to cheer her on in the big race against her rival, Skipper Tipton. Dad doesn't make it to field day, but when he realizes how important it is to Izzy, he and all of her friends and family are there to watch her participate in the citywide 10K run.

Simon Ellis, Spelling Bee Champ

Simon Ellis, Spelling Bee Champ
Author: Claudia Mills
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 141
Release: 2015-10-27
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0374302219

Simon Ellis and the rest of the third grade Franklin School Friends participate in a spelling bee where Simon's competitive spirit takes over until he realizes that sometimes the best way to win is to take a chance and let other people shine.

Cody Harmon, King of Pets

Cody Harmon, King of Pets
Author: Claudia Mills
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2016-06-14
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0374302243

Cody Harmon doesn't love reading, math, spelling, or really any of the subjects that Miss Molina teaches in her third-grade class. But he lives on a farm and he loves animals--he even has nine pets--so when the school holds a pet-show fund-raiser, it should be his time to shine. There's a ten-dollar entrance fee per pet, though, and Cody can't pay it for all nine pets. He'd love to take his pig, but what about the others? In the end, Cody figures out a way to lend out his pets so that every person in the class (and every pet) gets to participate in the show.

Fashion Academy

Fashion Academy
Author: Sheryl Berk
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2015-07-07
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1492601632

Project Runway meets Fame in this fresh, fun new series from the mother-daughter writing team who created the successful Cupcake Club series. MacKenzie "Mickey" Williams is the new student at FAB Middle School (Fashion Academy of Brooklyn), a training ground for the fashion designers of tomorrow. Fashion-forward MacKenzie "Mickey" Williams is thrilled to be accepted to FAB Middle School (Fashion Academy of Brooklyn), a school that serves as a training ground for the fashion designers of tomorrow. (Their motto, "We are SEW FAB"). But when her daring fashion and stellar grades turn the Fab A-listers green with envy, Mickey discovers that standing out doesn't always make it easy to fit in. So when friendly classmate JC comes up with a plan to help Mickey fit in, she decides to take the ultimate fashion risk—ditch her personal style for good. One mega makeover later, pink-haired Mickey Williams mysteriously disappears, and the trendy, blonde "Kenzie Wills" shows up on the FAB scene, blending with the other students in a way Mickey never could. But when Mickey starts to lose herself to "Kenzie," she's not sure that fitting in is worth cutting herself down to size...

You're a Brave Man, Julius Zimmerman

You're a Brave Man, Julius Zimmerman
Author: Claudia Mills
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Total Pages: 121
Release: 2013-09-17
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1466852887

The sequel to Losers, Inc. Twelve-year-old Julius Zimmerman is the former vice president of the defunct organization Losers, Inc. Ethan Winfield, the former president, no longer feels like a loser. But Julius still does, maybe because his mother thinks of him that way. To "improve" him, Mrs. Zimmerman signs Julius up for a summer course in intensive French and for a part-time job baby-sitting three-year-old Edison Blue. She also sets a summer reading goal for him. Julius doesn't ace the French class and doesn't do the required reading, but he does turn out to have a winning way with kids -- and adults -- and in the end proves to his mother that her criteria for success aren't the only ones.

Road Whiz

Road Whiz
Author: Darcy Pattison
Publisher:
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2018-04-08
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781629440965

Storyteller and writing teacher DARCY PATTISON has been published in nine languages. Her books, published with Harcourt, Philomel/Penguin, Harpercollins, Arbordale, and Mims House have received recognition for excellence with starred reviews in Kirkus, BCCB and PW. Three nonfiction nature books have been honored as National Science Teacher's Association Outstanding Science Trade books. The Journey of Oliver K. Woodman (Harcourt) received an Irma Simonton Black and James H. Black Award for Excellence in Children's Literature Honor Book award, and has been published in a Houghton Mifflin textbook. She's the 2007 recipient of the Arkansas Governor's Arts Award for Individual Artist for her work in children's literature.

Doll-E 1.0

Doll-E 1.0
Author: Shanda McCloskey
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 41
Release: 2018-05-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0316510327

A STEM-friendly tale of a girl and the doll she upgrades to be her new friend, for fans of The Most Magnificent Thing and Rosie Revere, Engineer. Charlotte's world is fully charged! With her dog at her side, she's always tinkering, coding, clicking, and downloading. She's got a knack for anything technological--especially gadgets that her parents don't know how to fix! Then, she receives a new toy that is quite a puzzle: a doll! What's she supposed to do with that? Once she discovers the doll's hidden battery pack, things start to get interesting...while her faithful canine sidekick wonders if he'll be overshadowed by the new and improved Doll-E 1.0! With a little ingenuity and an open mind, everyone can be friends in this endearing, modern tribute to the creative spirit of play.