Washoe County Library System

Brother and sister twins, Dawn and Dusk, love hockey. Unfortunately, their dad hates the game, and their grandmother thinks they ought to be doing their homework. But, when their dad gets free tickets to a Canadiens game, he takes the whole family. The lucky fan who will get a chance to take a shot on goal for one million dollars will be chosen at the end of the game. Will Dawn or Dusk be the lucky one?

Ella Mentry School hires a health teacher who tries to force the students to eat healthy foods and exercise, whether they want to or not.

Second grade graduation turns into a full-blown spectacle when an overzealous PTA president pulls out all the stops for A.J. and his classmates on the last day of school.

A skateboarding principal offers unusual incentives to his students to motivate them to learn more. Principal Klutz was hanging upside down from the school flagpole! He kissed a pig on the lips! He painted his bald head orange! And now he wants to bungee-jump off the roof of the school, dressed like Santa Claus! In fact, all the grown-ups at A.J.'s school seem to have something wrong with them. What's going on here? What are A.J. and the kids in his...

A.J. has to go see Miss Laney, the speech teacher, which makes no sense at all because he already knows how to talk. Miss Laney has him say weird tongue twisters and forces him to star in the third-grade play, Romeo and Juliet.

New third grade teacher Mr. Granite has so many strange ideas about how to make Ella Mentary School environmentally friendly that the students are sure he must be an alien.

Four fifth-grade students--a geek, a class clown, a teacher's pet, and a slacker--as well as their teacher and mothers, each relate events surrounding a computer programmed to complete homework assignments.

One day at recess, Rappy the dinosaur gets taken by aliens on a U.F.O. ride. The head alien, Janet, wants Rappy to live with heron Mars! Will Rappy stay in space to roam, or will he rap his way back home?Beginning readers will love rapping along to this rhyming Level Two I Can Read tale as Rappy goes on an out-of-this-world adventure. This rhyming Level Two I Can Read is geared for kids who read on their own but still need a little help.

Assisted by his neighbor, Birdie, blind thirteen-year-old Ed "Bogie" Bogard will win one million dollars if he can sink a ten-foot putt in Hawaii's fifth annual Angus Killick Memorial Tournament.

In this explosive third installment of New York Times bestselling author Dan Gutmans action-packed series, four thrill-seeking friends travel back in time to document one of the most devastating natural disasters the world has ever seen. Eccentric billionaire Miss Z is sending Luke, Julia, David, and Isabel on another mission back in time to capture one of historys most important events. This time, the Flashback Four are headed to AD 79 to photograph...