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By Judy Delton. 1996
Summer vacation is here and all of the Pee Wees are excited about their new swimming badge. All, that is,…
except for Molly, who doesn't know how to swim and is afraid of the water. Can Molly earn her badge without actually getting wet? She does her best to avoid the water, but when the day of Jody's big pool party arrives, it's time for Molly to sink or swim! The Pee Wees goof around, do good deeds, take on projects and have fun and adventures. Find out all about what scouts do in the many Pee Wee Scout books you can get from Bookshare including: #1 Cookies and Crutches, #2 Camp Ghost-Away, #3 Lucky Dog Days, #4 Blue Skies, French Fries, #5 Grumpy Pumpkins, #6 Peanut-Butter Pilgrims, #7 A Pee Wee Christmas, #8 That Mushy Stuff, #9 Spring Sprouts, #10 The Pooped Troop, # 11 The Pee Wee Jubilee, #12 Bad, Bad, Bunnies, #13 Rosy Noses, Frozen Toes, #14 Sonny's Secret, #15 Sky Babies, #16 Trash Bash, #17 Pee Wees On Parade, #18 Lights, Action, Land-ho!, #19 Piles of Pets, #20 Fishy Wishes, #21 Pee Wees on Skis, #22 Greedy Groundhogs, #23 All Dads On Deck, #24 Tricks and Treats, #25 Pee Wees on First, #26 Super Duper Pee Wees, #27 Teeny Weeny Zucchinis, #28 Eggs With Legs, #30 Bookworm Buddies, #31 Moans and Groans and Dinosaur Bones, #32 Stage Frightened, #33 Halloween Helpers. and #39 Molly For Mayor. And there are even more pee Wee Scout books coming to Bookshare!By Sarah Weeks. 2004
Nat Boyd and Boyd Fink love making up crazy games to play. In their latest, Faboo Facts, the two Boyds…
go head-to-head, battling to out-faboo each other with the more impressive fact. But this crash of craniums is destined for disaster. It's not long before the competition has gone too far, and Fink starts to change. He's not the same Fink any more... now he's Fink in a funk! Nat had better find a way to break Fink's funk. If he doesn't, he'll lose more than just the game. He'll lose his best friend!By Rachel Vail. 2000
Zoe's running for class president again. Only this year, everything's going wrong. Tommy, the boy she has a crush on,…
has nominated someone to run against her. And Morgan is still mad at her for stealing her best friend. But the election isn't supposed to be a popularity contest, right?By Sheila Solomon Klass. 1991
When Ada, a tough, street-fighting transplant from coal mining country to the Chicago slums, gets the no-nonsense Ms. Walker as…
a teacher, she learns that there are other ways to stand up for yourself.By Bruce Coville. 1988
As soon as Stuart Glassman sees the ad for a summer movie camp, he knows that this is the place…
for him. What the ad doesn't say is that Camp Haunted Hill is run by Gregory Stevens, the man who makes the world's scariest movies -- and that he plans to try out his special effects on the campers!By Damien Graves. 2006
1. Adam and David go canoeing. Trouble awaits them in the water. The hungry kind of trouble. 2. Katie screams…
when she sees a mouse. And another one. And another one. And another one. 3. Kelly pursues a dream role in the school play. Offstage, her life is becoming a nightmare.By Ben Martin. 1945
David Matthews is having a rough time. Being a teenager is bad enough, but when he picks up and moves…
to Japan for a year, with barely any knowledge of the language and none of the social behaviors of Japanese teenagers, things go from bad to worse.Until one day, David attends a temple ceremony and finds himself possessed by a Japanese god.Suddenly, he can understand and speak Japanese. He has unbelievable new powers, including the ability to shift into a tiger, and a powerful sword he can materialize at will from its sheath-his body. But nothing comes for free, and these changes bring David face-to-face with the most terrifying creatures of Japanese legend-vengeful okami, demonic oni and terrifying ghostly yurei.Trained by his host family, famous sword-makers and the keepers of an ancient secret entrusted to their family by the first Emperor of Japan, David must fight desperately to save his host sister from a hoard of Japanese monsters. Evil has returned to Japan, and David must overcome his own insecurities if he is to save her and become a True Samurai-the protector of Japan.By Sharon Robinson. 2006
Ten-year-old Elijah Breeze, a.k.a. Jumper, is having the hardest summer of his life. His father has just died; his mother…
has moved them from the suburbs to Harlem; and he has to spend the summer at baseball camp. Basketball is Jumper's game. He doesn't know anything about baseball, or city life, or how to keep going without his dad. Jumper struggles in his new life, but he's encouraged by the support of his coach and by his grandma's wisdom. He finds out it is possible to start over in a new place with new people ... and still hold on to what's important from his past.By Rachel Vail. 1998
By Rachel Vail. 1998
Seventh-grader Zoe, who comes from a big family where she's never had anything all to herself, desperately wants CJ for…
a best friend, but when CJ reveals that she likes the boy Zoe likes, she must make a choice.By Andy Griffiths. 2008
Meet Henry McThrottle, a fifth-grader with an extremely active imagination. His flights of fancy lead to adventures of the sort…
only Andy Griffiths could dream up, in the first entry of a hilarious new series.By Kristiana Gregory. 2008
It's a new school year in Cabin Creek and the cousins have a new mystery. When Claire and David look…
out the art room window and see a girl's pale face, they suspect it's a ghost.By Rachel Vail. 1998
Twelve-year-old CJ, an accomplished ballet student, struggles with her conflicting desires to continue her ballet study and please her mother…
or to quit ballet and finally be like all the other kids in school.By Paul Zindel. 1984
By Ben M. Baglio. 1996
When a family of squirrels finds its way into Mandy's and James's school, the principal wants to put down poison.…
Can the kids help the squirrels to safety before it's too late?By Richard Peck. 1993
When Bambi Babcock's TV-producer father bankrupt, the Babcocks have to get out of Los Angeles ... fast. Dad heads for…
his hometown of Hickory Fork, which he remembers as a wholesome place for kids to grow up. But Bambi, her sister Buffie, and their little brother Brick come up against the Mall Rats, a down-home teenage gang run by scary Tanya and beef Jeeter. When the Mall Rats walk into school dives for cover. They've already trashed the mall. Bambi knows that if her show-biz family is going to get stuck here, they must turn the school around and save the town. The Mall Rats will never know what hit them.By Marilyn Kaye. 1990
Katie, Trina, Megan, Sarah, and Erin are back at the all-girls camp--Camp Sunnyside. Sarah notices that a lot of guys…
like Erin and decides that maybe she should do a makeover! But little does Sarah now that it takes more than your looks to get a boy's attention and there are some things that are more important than any boy.By Micol Ostow. 2008
In an election year, Erin Bright sets aside her familiar supporting role as daughter of the mayor and girlfriend of…
the student body president to stand up for what she believes in and protect an historic park from being replaced by a gas station.By Jeanne Betancourt. 1999
By Susan Saunders. 1987