Frank Carlson Library

A little boy is surprised and pleased when one of the dinosaurs from the museum agrees to play with him.

If Gerald McGrew ran the zoo, he'd let all the animals go and fill it with more unusual beasts--a ten-footed lion, an Elephant-Cat, a Mulligatawny, a Tufted Mazurka, and others.

It's not easy to enjoy a picnic when you have unseeable interlopers to contend with! In a new trio of stories for beginning readers, the affable Max the dog and mischievous Baby Cakes the cat encounter a scare-happy ghost who has a run-in with a mirror, the wind at its blustery best, and a teeny-tiny fairy with a wayward wand who may have met her match. -- From the publisher.

"When Horton hears a voice coming from a speck of dust, he's sure there's a person living on the speck. The other animals in the Jungle of Nool don't believe him. And to prove it, they try to destroy the dust speck. But Horton is determined to save his new friends because he believes that a person's a person, no matter how small."--P. [4] of cover

When six ordinary girls accidentally open a secret door into another world, it doesn't take long for adventure, and danger, to find them.

Jack and Annie don't need another mummy. But that's what they get when the magic tree house whisks them back to ancient Egypt. There they meet a long-dead queen who needs their help.

Tom must face the Winged Flame, a phoenix living inside a volcano, to finish his quest to save the kingdom from the dark wizard Malvel, but during the fight he learns about his mysterious past and what it means for his future.

Fourteen fairies have escaped into our world, all different, and all capable of causing great harm--and it is up to an eight-year-old girl named Violet and a Pixie Tricker, a fairy called Sprite-of-the-Green-Petals-from-the-Whispering-Woods, to trick them and send them back to their own world.

Pick a book. Grow a Reader! This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line, Branches, aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and stamina. Branches books help readers grow! Eight-year-old Violet and her new fairy friend Sprite are ready to send more pixies back to the Otherworld! When a tricky fairy...

When animals mysteriously stampede and brush fires sweep the prairie, Tom and Elenna, who hear that a mysterious horseman is causing the damage, speed to the plains in an effort to stop Tagus, the night horse.