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.

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.

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.

Hide & Seek

Hide & Seek
Author: Janet S. Wong
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2005
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780152049348

In this counting book, a child and parent play hide-and-seek while they bake cookies.

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.

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.

Twist

Twist
Author: Janet S. Wong
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 50
Release: 2007-02-27
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0689873948

A collection of poems composed to inspire different yoga poses.

Good Luck Gold and Other Poems

Good Luck Gold and Other Poems
Author: Janet S. Wong
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 56
Release: 1994
Genre: Children's poetry, American
ISBN: 0689506171

Poems deal with the joys and sorrows of growing up Chinese American, and the prejudice which Chinese Americans sometimes face.

Homegrown House

Homegrown House
Author: Janet S. Wong
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009-05-19
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780689847189

It takes time to settle into a house, to learn to love it right, to make it feel homegrown. After the boxes are unpacked and the books are shelved (alphabetically), all a young girl wants to do is settle into her house. Grandmom says that it takes time to learn to love a house right, and this young girl is determined for hers to become homegrown. E. B. Lewis’s warm, familial scenes pair with Janet S. Wong’s yearning text for an intergenerational story of wishes, dreams, and a true sense of home.