Griffin: 1118 books

Introducing the Read & Bloom line for newly independent readers with a charming and quirky story about two unusual best friends . . . Meet Agnes and Clarabelle! Agnes the pig and Clarabelle the chicken are best friends through every season! Whether it's planning the perfect birthday...

The year is 1950. The story tells about the life of an eight year old girl who happens to be a preachers kid: the family and friends she has, the scrapes she get into, the experiences that help her grow, and the happy times she encounters over the process of a year.

After he nearly drowns in a parking-lot puddle, Dinnn Needles is fearful of many things, including flying. When his four hundred siblings swarm off without him, he finds time to dream —about family stories, a lost brother, adventure in The Wild and, above all, how to be cool. At school in...

Harey and his friends, including Pillow, the parrot, go out flying their kite dangerously close to an electricity pylon with disastrous results.

One wet, windy, winter’s morning Harey decides to have a party because it is his birthday. Having been given some pot-pourri as a present he tries to drink the essential oil but Scampi saves him just in time, knocks over a candle and causes a fire, goes to use some plastic washing pouches for eating as jellies and swallows some "sweets" he finds in the medicine cabinet in the bathroom.

Who stole the hamster from Room 11? A once-happy class is set on edge in this humorous, highly relatable mystery perfect for middle-grade readers. The day the hamster disappears from Smashie McPerter’s class begins like any other. Well, except for the fact that the teacher is out sick and...

Tamika Sykes, AKA Mik, is hearing impaired and way too smart for her West Bronx high school. She copes by reading lips and selling homework answers, and looks forward to the time each day when she can be alone in her room drawing. She's a tough girl who mostly keeps to herself and can shut anyone...

Harey and his friends visit the seaside. He climbs the cliff and falls, cuts his feet on some broken glass, digs a big cave in the sand and almost suffocates when the sides fall in, goes swimming out of his depth while ignoring the warning flags and nearly drowns

Ruthie is grumpy and unhappy when she didn’t get everything she wanted for her twelfth birthday in the little town of Oxford, Connecticut. Ruthie’s mom gave her a pair of shiny gold earrings which mysteriously disappears. Ruthie accuses her best friend Amanda for stealing them. Amanda insists she didn’t. Will Ruthie be able to solve the puzzling mystery?

Anyone can get involved in gathering data for ongoing, actual scientific studies such as the Audubon Bird Count and FrogWatch USA. Just get out into a field, urban park, or your own backyard. You can put your nose to a monarch pupa or listen for raucous frog calls. You can tally woodpeckers or sweep...

The Asian longhorned beetle (ALB) has made news across the United States. These beetles came to America from China, living in wood turned into shipping material. At first the beetles invaded urban areas, where hardwood trees were in limited supply—Chicago was able to declare itself ALB-free in 2006....

Some farms grow vegetables or grains, and some raise cows, sheep, chickens, or pigs. But have you ever heard of a butterfly farm? How do you raise a butterfly? On a farm in Costa Rica, workers care for these delicate, winged creatures as they change from eggs to caterpillars to pupae. Like...

Harey and his friends visit a farm. After many accidents and dangers, involving a farmer, an angry cow and a pool of pig-muck, Harey manages to set a barn alight and runs into a grain silo to hide. Fortunately, it is not full and he is dug out safely by the Fire Brigade. A picture book to promote safety of children on the farm.

Harey and his friends have a dangerous Christmas when he tries to climb on the furniture to place a fairy on top of the tree, gets an electrical shock playing with the fairy lights, sets fire to the Christmas tree, and ends up scalding himself in the kitchen while rushing around.