"Tib the dinosaur wants to build a big, amazing rig. How do Tib and some hardworking friends make the dream come true? Bit by bit! This funny story engages beginning readers while supporting them with learning resources and bonus features. Fully decodable text features high-frequency words, and words with the short i sound combined with selected consonant letters."-- Provided by publisher.

"How on earth do you resist the most amazing cake? One little girl is about to find out just how hard it can be..." -- Dust jacket.

"During a long day at work, seal mums think their pups are napping, watching TV, and not doing much. In fact, the seal pups are having such a lot of fun! This funny story engages beginning readers while supporting them with learning resources and bonus features. Fully decodable text features high-frequency words, and words with the short u sound combined with selected consonant letters."-- Back cover.

When third-grader Billy Burger takes the class pet ferret to the school assembly it gets away, and Billy finds himself in trouble with the school and his detective father.

Three easy-to-read stories reveal the close friendship between Dog and Bear.

Meet Dirty Bertie, a boy with nose-picking disgusting habits. He's full to bursting with madcap plans and crazy ideas, and if it's trouble you're after, look no further, Bertie's sure to be up to his neck in it. Suggested level: primary.

Susan and Norma have been best friends for years, at first thrust together by force of circumstance (a job at The Pin Cushion, a haberdashery shop in 1990s Leicestershire) and then by force of character (neither being particularly inclined to make friends with anyone else). But now, thirty years later, faced with a husband seeking immortality and Norma out of reach on a wave of professional glory, Susan begins to wonder whether she has made the right...

"One summer's day we started a business called Funerals Ltd, to help all the poor dead animals in the world. Esther did the digging, I wrote the poems, and Esther's little brother, Puttie, cried."--Page [4] of cover.

"Calling to mind the best works of Paul Beatty and Junot Diaz, this collection of moving, timely, and darkly funny stories examines the concept of black identity in this so-called post-racial era. A stunning new talent in literary fiction, Nafissa Thompson-Spires grapples with black identity and the contemporary middle class in these compelling, boundary-pushing vignettes. Each captivating story plunges headfirst into the lives of new, utterly original...

"Teenage Eulabee and her magnetic best friend, Maria Fabiola, own the streets of Sea Cliff, their foggy oceanside San Francisco neighborhood. They know Sea Cliff's homes and beaches, its hidden corners and eccentric characters--as well as the upscale all-girls' school they attend. One day, walking to school with friends, they witness a horrible act--or do they? Eulabee and Maria Fabiola vehemently disagree on what happened, and their rupture is followed...