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Happy Birthday, Mama is Bonnie Pryor's sweet story of familial love. Join Robert and his father as they prepare for his mother's birthday: fixing a special dinner, baking a cake, and wrapping a present. But love is one thing you can't wrap as we learn in Happy Birthday, Mama.
Valentina's family has come from Russia with a wonderful dream --- to own a store. Valentina wants to help, but everyone says she's too little to contribute to the glass jar where the dream money is kept. The family becomes discouraged when little money comes in, but Valentina has discovered how she can help make their dream come true.
In September 1939, Simon looked out his window to see German soldiers shooting civilians. Bombs from airplanes rattled the windows of his home and machine-gun fire echoed in the streets. Simon and his family lived in Warsaw, Poland. On this day, Simon’s world would be shattered. The invading Nazis would force his family to live in a ghetto because they were Jewish. Follow Simon in his story of the Holocaust as he tries to survive the brutal conditions of the ghetto and a life on the run in Nazi-occupied territory.
A little girl goes about her morning chores of feeding the newborn farm animals. At lunch time the little girl comes home to the newest baby at Greenbrook Farm --- her little brother awake from his morning nap. Graham's beautiful and evocative paintings rejoice in the splendor and miracle of new life.
Two mouse brothers find it difficult to live together until a cat threatens to do away with one of them.
Perfect Percy is Bonnie Pryor's story a perfect grasshopper. If only he had perfect parents! "When Percy samples life with the quiet, ordinary Beetle family next door, he learns that fun and kindness are more important than clean dishes and perfect manners."
What would you see from your front porch if your neighborhood suddenly looked as it did three hundred years ago? When the two girls who live at 107 Maple Street discover an ancient arrowhead and a broken china cup, they begin to wonder.
Outfitted with a new ship, Hannah Pritchard is on the hunt for buried treasure. Officially a part of the new Continental navy, Hannah's crew must also complete missions for the American war effort. On their journey, Hannah and her friends must watch out for British ships that patrol the dangerous waters. And a new enemy, the evil pirate Captain Samuel Cutter, is racing for the treasure, too. Will Hannah reach the treasure first? This final book in the Hannah Pritchard trilogy follows Hannah Pritchard on her exciting sea voyages and her search for pirate gold.
When Robert's irritating cousin Harriet comes to stay for a whole school year, it's war until the quarrelsome fourth grade cousins discover how much alike they really are.
Four episodes demonstrate the imaginative games Grandpa Bear plays with Samantha and the affection between them.