Toni Buzzeo

A young girl listens as her great-aunt, a lighthouse keeper's daughter, tells of her childhood living on a Maine island, and of the infant that washed ashore after a storm.

Patty Lee and Carmen Rosa Peña compete to be the top reader in the fourth grade and earn the right to wear the dragon costume in the Read Across America Day parade.

Elliot, a very proper young man, feels a kinship with the penguins at the aquarium and wants to take one home with him.

"Twenty-five different foods, grouped by color, are nutritionally decoded in this reference book for the preschool set"--

Mama Duck tries to keep Dawdle Duckling together with his siblings, but he wants to dawdle and dream, preen and play, splash and spin.

After a few tries and with some help from friends, Dawdle Duckling finds the best way to hide while playing hide-and-seek with his mother and siblings.

"From a very young age, Sue Hendrickson was meant to find things: lost coins, perfume bottles, even hidden treasure. Her endless curiosity eventually led to her career in diving and paleontology, where she would continue to find things big and small. In 1990, at a dig in South Dakota, Sue made her biggest discovery to date: Sue the T. rex, the largest and most complete T. rex skeleton ever unearthed. Named in Sue's honor, Sue the T. rex would be placed...

Mrs. Skorupski, school librarian at Liberty Elementary, encourages fourth-grader Robert to search for information using tools such as the online catalog to find what he needs.