Grandpops has caught a nasty bug, which Huxley assumes is a giant space bug. Early readers will laugh at the zany solution Hux comes up with to help his grandfather.About the seriesHuxley Higgins is a small seven-year-old with a BIG imagination . . . an imagination that often gets him into ridiculous predicaments. Young readers will laugh along with Hux's entertaining adventures in these early chapter books.

Huxley wants to help Grandpop's garden. Maybe the worms in the bookstore's new bookworm corner will be the answer! Emerging readers will be captivated by this silly story.About the seriesHuxley Higgins is a small seven-year-old with a BIG imagination . . . an imagination that often gets him into ridiculous predicaments. Young readers will laugh along with Hux's entertaining adventures in these early chapter books.

Huxley can't wait to meet the real-life knights that are coming to visit! Early readers follow as Hux prepares for the guests by creating a suit of armor to fight the inevitable dragons.About the seriesHuxley Higgins is a small seven-year-old with a BIG imagination . . . an imagination that often gets him into ridiculous predicaments. Young readers will laugh along with Hux's entertaining adventures in these early chapter books.

Odolf has been taken. Merle is a traitor. Necromalcolm is back."Over land and over sea, dark destiny is fled,carried on the wings of Fate—the living and the dead.A precious prize lies buried now amongst the ghostly hoard,but treasures lost may still be found and broken hearts restored."With her devious father back to his full power and Odolf and Fred gone, Emba Oak is at rock bottom, al...

Sam likes to tap everywhere. What happens when he can't tap somewhere? An alien visits earth and finds something. It isn't a nut, so what is it? Emerging readers laugh and learn with these decodable stories.

All the best endings to adventures have to start somewhere……and Emba's begins in the Eyeless Isles, where her villainous father is preparing to storm the dragon realm. It's up to Emba and her friends to stop him, even if that means leaving their own world behind and risking everything in a strange new realm of fire and ice. But will friendship and bravery be enough to fulfill the Final Prophecy, or will evil triumph in the end? And with her twelfth birthday looming...

X marks the spot to pirate treasure in Huxley's mom's bookstore. Emerging readers follow Hux on his quest to find the loot, but discover that misreading can send your mind in a totally different direction.About the seriesHuxley Higgins is a small seven-year-old with a BIG imagination . . . an imagination that often gets him into ridiculous predicaments. Young readers will laugh along with Hux's entertaining adventures in these early chapter books.

When Huxley's mom needs a cat's help with a giant problem, that must mean zombie mice are invading the bookstore! More cats must be better than one in this silly story for beginning readers.About the seriesHuxley Higgins is a small seven-year-old with a BIG imagination . . . an imagination that often gets him into ridiculous predicaments. Young readers will laugh along with Hux's entertaining adventures in these early chapter books.

Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience!Sam likes to tap everywhere. What happens when he can't tap somewhere? An alien visits earth and finds something. It isn't a nut, so what is it? Emerging readers laugh and learn with these decodable stories.

Janus Lodge isn’t your typical retirement community. Sylvia Abercrombie and her knitting-obsessed gang of octogenarians are feisty, foul- mouthed, and fiercely protective of their home. So when a shady developer plots to evict them and build a "gentlemen’s club", they hatch an audacious plan to save their sanctuary - by starting a secret knitwear empire with a scandalous twist. As sales skyrocket, secrets unravel, and Sylvia’s ex-husband lurks in the shadows, the gang must pull off the ult...

Here is A Christmas Treasury for all ages. Included are Twas the Night Before Christmas by Clement C. Moore, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry, The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum, and other delightful poetry and fiction. Beautifully illustrated, this book will become part of your family's Christmas tradition for years to come.

Governments and nonprofits exist to create public value. Yet what does that mean in theory and practice?This new volume brings together key experts in the field to offer unique, wide-ranging answers. From the United States, Europe, and Australia, the contributors focus on the creation, meaning, measurement, and assessment of public value in a world where government, nonprofit organizations, business, and citizens all have roles in the public sphere. In so doing, they demonstrate th...