Sally Warner
Author
Series
EllRay Jakes series volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
When EllRay's best friend starts hanging out with skateboarders, EllRay tries to learn how to skateboard to win him back.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Publisher Marketing: When EllRay and his friends hear about the school talent show, they're not impressed. They're too old for that stuff. But Mrs. Sanchez their teacher isn't so quick to let her students off the hook. Five students MUST try-out, and EllRay somehow ends up being one of them. Now he must figure out something he's talented at....like, maybe magic? With some unexpected help from his dad, a scientist, EllRay begins to realize that he...
Author
Series
Emma McGraw series volume 5
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
130 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the third-graders compete in the first annual winter games, Emma feels that she must win in order to prove to her father, who is divorced from her mother and lives in England with his new wife, that she is good at something.
Author
Series
EllRay Jakes series volume 8
Language
English
Description
Eight-year-old EllRay is down to one-and-a-half best friends, which leads his little sister to point out the obvious: he needs new friends. A spare, at least. For emergencies. So EllRay decides to audition other boys for the role of Spare Best Friend. EllRay's class is brimming with possibilities, but no one seems to share his exact interests. What's so great about car parts? And why would anyone think boring instruction manuals are fun to read? But...
Author
Language
English
Description
Dilly's mom, Elspeth Dillon Howell, died when Dilly was just six. She left her daughter an Adirondack farmhouse and a letter for when Dilly was "older." Now that Dilly's old enough, the letter's missing. As Dilly searches for it in the house's many hiding places, she makes a few discoveries about the mom she never really knew. Surprisingly, Elspeth's long-ago life looks a lot like Dilly's today.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Publisher Marketing: EllRay Jakes is a small kid with big problems! EllRay Jakes may be the smallest kid in his class at Oak Glen Primary School, but he's also his sister Alfie's big brother. So when it looks like Alfie is being bossed around by a dragon-like girl at her school, EllRay feels responsible. As her older (and wiser!) brother, shouldn't he show her that she should stand up for herself? But little sisters and four year old dragons are a...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Things are going just swimmingly for EllRay. He's finally getting along with most of the kids at school. He's even getting along with his family. But then everything comes screeching to a halt when his younger sister accidently overfeeds the classroom goldfish EllRay was supposed to be taking care of over Spring vacation. What is EllRay going to tell his teacher and the kids in his third-grade class? Fortunately, most of them are sympathetic. But...
Author
Series
EllRay Jakes series volume 7
Language
English
Description
Third-grader EllRay dreads the upcoming Winter Wonderland school assembly in which he must emcee and sing "Jingle Bell Rock."
Author
Series
EllRay Jakes series volume 2
Language
English
Description
All the boys in EllRay's third-grade class have something they can brag about. Corey's on the swim team, Kevin is super tall, Jared's dad has an ATV. But EllRay's dad is a geologist - not much to brag about. After all, rocks are boring. Then EllRay sees the crystals in his dad's office, and they are really cool looking. If EllRay just "borrows" them to show his classmates, he knows they'd be impressed. And his dad will never have to know. It's a perfect...
Author
Series
EllRay Jakes series volume 9
Language
English
Description
EllRay Jakes finally grows up (a little) by playing basketball in this ninth book in the series. There's a new game in town: basketball! Or in EllRay's case, "pre"-basketball. Coach Havens has all the third graders dribbling, passing, and shooting, and he's quick to compliment EllRay's skills. No one else seems to notice them, however, and as 'the shortest kid in the class,' EllRay is still chosen last for teams at recess. What's a short guy gotta...
Author
Series
Emma McGraw series volume 6
Publisher
Viking Children's Books
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
Eight-year-old Emma is upset to learn that her mother is dating, but not passing along a message about a cancelled date makes Emma feels worse.
Author
Series
EllRay Jakes series volume 1
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
108, 9 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Eight-year-old EllRay's father has promised a family trip to Disneyland if EllRay can stay out of trouble for a week, but not defending himself against Jared, the class bully, proves to be a real challenge.
13) Sort of forever
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
136 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-olds Cady and Nana explore the strengths of their special friendship as they cope with Nana's cancer.
15) Super Emma
Author
Series
Emma McGraw series volume 3
Publisher
Viking/Penguin Young Readers Group
Pub. Date
©2006.
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
90 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Third-grader Emma becomes a reluctant heroine when she defends a friend from the class bully.