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By Ben H. Winters. 2010
Ms. Finkleman is just our boring old music teacher. Or is she? It all starts with a Special Project in…
Mr. Melville's Social Studies class: Solve a mystery in your own life. For seventh grader Bethesda Fielding, one mystery is too tempting to ignore: Ms. Finkleman. Bethesda is convinced that her mousy Music Fundamentals teacher is hiding a secret life, and she's determined to find out what it is. But no one is prepared for what she learns. Ms. Finkleman used to be . . . a rock star? Soon the whole school goes rock crazy, and a giant concert is in the works with none other than timid Ms. Finkleman at the helm! But the case isn't quite closed, and the questions continue to swirl for Bethesda. Could there be even more to the secret life of Ms. Finkleman than she already revealed? With the help of her rock-obsessed classmate Tenny Boyer, Bethesda won't stop until she solves the real mystery of Ms. Finkleman once and for all!By H. A. Rey. 2008
Curious George makes a pizza delivery to an acrobat troupe, and they teach him how to balance on the high…
wire. Later that night, at their first big performance, Gnocchi the cat threatens to ruin the show by walking along the high wire, but George uses his newfound talent to save the day!By Peter Hannan. 2011
Freddy's just a normal kid . . . with an out-of-this-world life! Freddy, his sister, Babette, and their parents have…
been abducted by aliens! Next stop, the planet Flurb, where things couldn't be more different from their ordinary life on Earth. On Flurb, they snack on yootleturds, the buildings are alive, and the aliens make Freddy King! But his reign won't last long if the evil Wizbad has anything to say about it . . . or Babette! Her brother as king? No way!By David Yoo. 2004
Detention The best worst thing to happen to Peter Lee? Peter and his best friend, Drew, used to be so…
cool (or, at least, not total outcasts) in elementary school. But now they're in middle school, where their extensive mica collection and prowess at kickball have earned them a new label: losers. Then Peter attracts the unwanted attention of the school bullies, and his plan to become popular through his older sister, the practically perfect Sunny, backfires. Things go from bad to worse when Peter gets detention. But what at first seems to spell his utter doom turns into an unlikely opportunity for making friends and influencing people. . . .By N. E. Bode. 2006
There is a city beneath New York City, one made by and for Anybodies. There you can find Bing Chubb's…
Ballpark, Willy Fattler's ever-changing Underground Hotel, and a castle whose spire sticks up into the dirt-filled sky...dangerously close to the rear ends of unsuspecting picnic-goers in Central Park. It's an extraordinary place, but it is in danger of becoming ordinary because of the nefarious Blue Queen. Somebody has to stop her, and if anybody is going to, nobody is better than everybody's favorite Anybody. In her third quirky adventure, Fern takes on the biggest, baddest, bluest opponent ever. Yikes!By Frances O'Roark Dowell, Preston Mcdaniels. 2008
Houston,we have a problem! Phineas L. MacGuire (a.k.a. Mac) is less than up-to-date on planetary happenings. (Marsquakes? Who knew?) If…
he's going to be the best scientist in the fourth grade, Mac has to set his sights pretty high. To outer space, actually. But Space Camp is expensive. Where is he going to find enough money for a week on Mars (or a pretty close simulation thereof)? Houston, we have another problem: a gigantic, slobbery dog named Lemon Drop. Mac can earn the money he needs by walking Mrs. McClosky's yellow Lab, but first he needs to survive the walks and the slobber! Good thing Mac is a scientific genius with friends like Ben and Aretha. Together the three of them discover that Lemon Drop is no ordinary dog -- that Lab is a real-life Lab-oratory.By Jeff Brown, Macky Pamintuan. 2009
Saddle up with Flat Stanley Ever since Stanley was flattened by a bulletin board, every trip is an adventure! The…
whole Lambchop family is off to see Mount Rushmore. But when Flat Stanley and his brother, Arthur, team up with a scrappy cowgirl named Calamity Jasper, their vacation turns into the Wild West experience of a lifetime. Pretty soon, they find themselves in a real tight spot--even for a flat boy like Stanley!By Juan Carlos Bonache. 2015
¡Los chistes más tronchantes a todo color! ¿Conoces el mundo de los Zumbaos? Tanto si la respuesta es «sí» como…
si es «no», ha llegado la hora de que te adentres en él. Todos los chistes gráficos que puedas imaginar están aquí: dinosaurios, extraterrestres, superhéroes... ¿A qué esperas para reírte a carcajadas? ¡Es tan sencillo como abrir este libro!By Barbara Park, Denise Brunkus. 1999
It's a mushy gushy mystery! Hurray! February 14--Valentime's Day, as June B. calls it--is just around the corner. Junie B.…
can't wait to see all the valentimes she'll get. But she never expected a big, mushy card from a secret admirer! Who is this secret mystery guy, anyway? Junie B. is determined to find out!By Beverly Cleary, Jacqueline Rogers. 2013
In this special reissue of Ramona Quimby, Age 8, the timeless classic now features a special foreword written by actress,…
producer, and author Amy Poehler, as well as an exclusive interview with Beverly Cleary herself. Ramona likes that she’s old enough to be counted on, but must everything depend on her? Mrs. Quimby has gone back to work so that Mr. Quimby can return to school, and Ramona is expected to be good for Mrs. Kemp while her parents are away, to be brave enough to ride the school bus by herself, and to put up with being teased by Danny the Yard Ape. In Ramona’s world, being eight isn’t easy, but it’s never dull! Newbery Medal Honor book Fountas and Pinnell Level: O Lexile: 691L - 770L Reading Recovery: 34 DRA: 34 PM Readers: 24 Silver Grade: 3 Ages: 8 - 9 Learning A to Z Level: S Accelerated Reader (ATOS): 3.9 - 5.1By Herman Parish, Lynne Avril. 2016
In the tenth chapter book in the New York Times-bestselling series, Amelia Bedelia's aunt Mary has been popped the question,…
and now Amelia Bedelia has a beach wedding to help plan! But there will be plenty of hitches before Aunt Mary and her fiancé Bob can get hitched: a broken bridge, a mysterious woman, a captain who falls ill, a ripped wedding dress, and even a lost ring. Fortunately flower girl Amelia Bedelia is on hand to help save the day--and to delight readers with her take on wedding planning. The Amelia Bedelia chapter books star Amelia Bedelia as a young girl and feature funny family and friendship stories just right for fans of Judy Moody and Ivy + Bean. The Amelia Bedelia books have sold more than 35 million copies since we first met the iconic character in 1963!By Lemony Snicket, Brett Helquist, Michael Kupperman. 2006
Like an off-key violin concert, the Roman Empire, or food poisoning, all things must come to an end. Thankfully, this…
includes A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket. The thirteenth and final installment in the groundbreaking series will answer readers' most burning questions: Will Count Olaf prevail? Will the Baudelaires survive? Will the series end happily? If there's nothing out there, what was that noise? Then again, why trouble yourself with unfortunate resolutions? Avoid the thirteenth and final book of Lemony Snicket's international bestselling series and you'll never have to know what happens.By Beverly Cleary, Tracy Dockray. 1973
Socks is one very happy cat. He lives the good life with his nice young owners, Mr. and Mrs. Bricker.…
They play with him when-ever he wants, feed him special treats, and always pet and scratch him when he curls up in their warm laps. Then a new baby arrives. Suddenly little Charles William is the one getting all the love and attention. Socks feels completely left out. To show how he feels about the new addition to the Bricker family, Socks starts getting into all sorts of trouble--with tomcats, phantom dogs, even Nana's best wig. It's not until Socks rescues Charles William from big, big trouble that Socks realizes just how much the Brickers truly want to keep him in the family. Beverly Cleary creates a warm, funny, and relatable story told from a cat's point of view in this purr-fectly delightful book about family and change.By Barbara Park, Denise Brunkus. 2012
It's Thanksgiving time and Room Nine is getting ready for their very own Thanksgiving feast! There's even a contest to…
see which room can write the best thankful list. The winners will get a pumpkin pie! Only it turns out being thankful is harder than it looks. Because Junie B. is not actually thankful for Tattletale May. Or squash. Or scratchy pilgrim costumes. And pumpkin pie makes her vomit, anyway. (But Junie B. is thankful for yummy cranberry sauce that's shaped like a can. And biscuits that explode from their can. And nipsy doodles!) Will Room 9 win the disgusting pie? Can May and Junie B. find common ground? Or will this Thanksgiving feast turn into a Turkey Day Disaster?By Lauren Barnholdt. 2007
Mom says karma always comes around to get you, and I guess it's true. Because last summer I was a…
total liar, and now, right in the middle of Mr. Pritchard's third-period math class, my whole world is about to come crashing down. That's because while Devon was living with her grandmother for the summer, she told her "summer friend," Lexi, that she was really popular back home and dating Jared Bentley, only the most popular guy at school. Harmless lies, right? Wrong. Not when Lexi is standing at the front of Devon's class, having just moved to Devon's town. Uh-oh. Devon knows there's only one way to handle this -- she'll just have to become popular! But how is Devon supposed to accomplish that when she's never even talked to Jared, much less dated him?! And it seems the more Devon tries to keep up her "image," the more things go wrong. Her family thinks she's nuts, her best friend won't speak to her, and, as if it's not all complicated enough, Jared starts crushing on Lexi and Devon starts crushing on Jared's best friend, Luke. It all has Devon wondering -- who is the real Devon Delaney?By Harlan Ellison. 2008
Love has ten thousand names and a million different faces. History will surely agree that America's most destructive contribution to…
twentieth century living has been that damaged product called plastic romance. It twists and savages us. After a lifetime of lies about what love is supposed to be, are you finally angry and depressed enough to be part of a "recall" on that shabby, mildewed merchandise? If so, join the remarkable Harlan Ellison as he dissects the soul and body of love in our time. In sixteen scalpel-sharp stories that range from the legalized whorehouses of Nevada to the steaming lynch towns of Georgia, from the abortion mills of Tijuana to the soundstages of Hollywood, the author rips the Saran-Wrap off love and hate and sin and twittering passion to disclose the raw meat beneath. Here are sixteen poisoned arrows from fantasy's most improbable Cupid, in which he presents a world of hearts and flowers guaranteed to revise your thinking about where love is found and how it looks.By Gillian White. 1993
In this dark comedy, five siblings who are fed up with their mother's negligent parenting conspire to teach her a…
lesson Caroline Townsend is a nightmare for her children. The former actress and current alcoholic hits her nadir on Christmas Eve. Her five young children hope for a Christmas celebration. Instead, they get a fight with their mother, who's absolutely plastered and fresh off yet another failed relationship. After lashing out at her children, Caroline passes out under the bent and mangled Christmas tree. For the Townsend children, this proves to be a rare opportunity--a chance to set things right with their mother. Together, they concoct an elaborate ruse designed to teach her a lesson, once and for all. Mothertime finds Gillian White at her uproarious best as she nimbly skewers motherhood and modern marriage.By Dan Gutman, Jim Paillot. 2006
Ms. Todd is subbing, and A.J. and his friends are sure she kidnapped Miss Daisy so she could take over…
her job. They're going to have to do the detective work to get the goods on her. But it won't be easy! Ms. Todd is the weirdest substitute teacher in the history of the world!By Diego Mejía. 2018
¿La sensibilidad se lleva bien con los luchadores? Desde su debut, el Conde de Terciopelo se ha empeñado en demostrar…
que no hay luchador más rudo que él. El ring no es un lugar para débiles, el chiste es apabullar a todos para llegar al estrellato. Pero, la verdad, el Conde es de naturaleza sensible, y su carrera podría irse a pique por eso. Lo que pasa es que desde chiquito le enseñaron a aguantarse como los machos y cosas por el estilo. Últimamente le afecta lo que la gente piense de él, su enemigo acérrimo le hace burla y, para colmo de males, la niña que entrena a su rival ha descubierto su punto débil y está maquinando un malévolo plan contra él. Acompaña al Enmascarado de Terciopelo y sus amigos en su intento por no perder su encanto personal sin dejar de imponerse en las luchas.By Tedd Arnold. 2007