Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Ohio

Savings

Electric Ben is a 2013 Boston Globe-Horn Book Nonfiction Book Award Winner, a Kirkus Reviews Best Children's Book, a Horn Fanfare Book, and a  Robert F. Sibert Honor book!

“a true standout…bright, witty, informative and cleverly organized as the man himself.” – The New York Times

A true Renaissance man, Benjamin Franklin was the first American celebrity. In pictures and text, master artist Robert Byrd documents Franklin's numerous and diverse accomplishments, from framing the Constitution to creating bifocals. The witty, wise, and endlessly curious Franklin is the perfect subject for Byrd's lively style and vibrant art. The pages pulse with facts, quotes, and captions, while the inventive design and intricately detailed illustrations make a striking tribute to the brilliant American.

Electric Ben ⚡️

New 
From the creator of the New York Times bestseller The Word Collector comes an empowering story about finding your voice, and using it to make the world a better place.
A New York Times BestsellerThe world needs your voice. If you have a brilliant idea... say something! If you see an injustice... say something!In this empowering new picture book, beloved author Peter H. Reynolds explores the many ways that a single voice can make a difference. Each of us, each and every day, have the chance to say something: with our actions, our words, and our voices. Perfect for kid activists everywhere, this timely story reminds readers of the undeniable importance and power of their voice. There are so many ways to tell the world who you are... what you are thinking... and what you believe. And how you'll make it better. The time is now: SAY SOMETHING!"A motivational must-have for every collection." -- School Library Journal

Finding your Voice 

Say Something 📝

Julie Danneberg

No marks, bends or tears 

Head back to school with the bestselling picture book classic! The perennial classroom read-aloud favorite for students and teachers, reminding us we all get the jitters sometimes.

A perfect new school year pick for kindergarteners, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd graders who are feeling nervous or anxious about starting their first day. 

Sarah Jane Hartwell has that sinking feeling in the pit of her stomach—she's nervous and doesn't want to start a new school year. She doesn't know anybody, and nobody knows her. It will be awful. She just knows it.

With a little convicing from Mr. Hartwell, Sarah Jane reluctantly heads to class. Shy at first, she's quickly befriended by Mrs. Burton and is reminded that everyone at school gets the jitters sometimes.

A beloved and bestselling back to school staple, Sarah Jane's relatable story and its surprise ending will delight seasoned students and new faces alike who are anxious about their first 

Everyone knows that sinking feeling in the pit of the stomach just before diving into a new situation. Sarah Jane Hartwell is scared and doesn't want to start over at a new school. She doesn't know anybody, and nobody knows her. It will be awful. She just knows it. With much prodding from Mr. Hartwell, Sarah Jane reluctantly pulls herself together and goes to school. She is quickly befriended by Mrs. Burton, who helps smooth her jittery transition. This charming and familiar story will delight readers with its surprise ending.

Fun, energetic illustrations brighten page after page with the busy antics surrounding Sarah Jane. FIRST DAY JITTERS is an enchanting story that is sure to be treasured by anyone who has ever anticipated a first day of school.

First Day Jitters 🚌

cfc8ade3-d5a3-481e-8fa3-2c401fd7a62f-1

Melissa Stewart

128 pages in this colorful fanstic book no marks or tears on pages. Cover shows signs of shelf wear. I A Rainbow of Animals is a composite book of six previously published books of six colors (red, orange, yellow, purple, blue and green) of animals, vibrantly photographed and carefully described. The various ways and reasons each animal uses color to survive are succinctly enumerated, and there are maps for each animal to show where its native habitat is. Additional information about the influence of diet on color and other color related data about the animals is presented. A Rainbow of Animals is presented as appealing to children of reading levels K-3, interest levels K-5. The brilliant photography will attract lingering interest and close examination of each miraculous creature.”
— Children's Bookwatch


This book explains why animals come in each color of the rainbow using examples of animals in the wild.

A Rainbow of Animals 🐸

e440fc52-f5bb-4a12-b3c1-5d310c30fcdc-1

Nancy Clancy super sleuth 🕵️‍♀️ 

No rips or marks. Cover shows signs of shelf wear 
Get ready to blast back to the past and learn all about the Salem Witch Trials!

When people think about the Salem Witch Trials, things like witchcraft and the Puritans may come to mind. But what were the trials all about, and were people really practicing witchcraft? This engaging nonfiction book, complete with black and white interior illustrations, will make readers feel like they’ve traveled back in time. It covers everything from how the craze started to what happened at the trials, and more. Find out interesting, little-known facts
 such as how most of the accused were from outside of Salem, Massachusetts, and how even animals were accused of witchcraft! The unique details along with the clever and humorous interior illustrations make this series stand out from the competition. 

The Salem Witch Trials 

Blast Back 🌠

Melvin D. Levine

A little yellow highlights in one chapter. 
This book continues to advocate for the informed observation and description of students without subjecting children to eligibility formulas and labels. In this second edition, I have updated and enriched many of the descriptions of the observable phenomena, revealing scenarios that can be witnessed daily within a classroom and at home. I have also added to the therapeutic recommendations that emerge naturally from the discovery of the highly specific phenomena that stand in the way of learning. "Educational Care" remains based on the firmly held conviction that the best educational care takes place when parents & educators form a coalition on behalf of the student, which is why the management techniques in this book are framed both for parents and schools. I also sustain the very strong emphasis on demystification, the belief that kids can deal with a problem when they have a clear & highly specific understanding of what it is & when they can learn the technical terms needed to think & talk about their learning issues. I hope that this book can inspire caring adults to help each child to discover how to use his or her unique"wiring" in niches that are filling and productive for him or her. It is my deep hope that this edition will continue to nurture the belief that education is at its best when it is a form of care, a sensitive and sensible process that cares for and about developing minds. The knowledge, approach, & empowerment that infuses these pages will hopefully mobilize & equip us to establish & implement humane educational policies and practices. In this way, what we have learned about successful learning will help all children find success in learning.

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Social Studies

A System for Understanding and Helping Children with Learning Problems at Home and in School

Educational Care, a resource for parents and Teacher's, provides suggestions for dealing with the specific needs of individual students. The book focuses on the link between home and school, using case studies to illustrate key points.

Educational Care

8c125f49-6135-415b-952c-ce855146a255-0

Gabrielle Reyes

No rips or marks in book. Cover shows signs of shelf wear. 
When a dolphin named Winter loses her tail in a crab trap, it’s up to a young boy named Sawyer and the staff at Clearwater Marine Aquarium to help her survive against the odds. Sawyer is quiet at first, but his special connection with Winter soon brings him out of his shell. One day, after visiting his cousin at an army hospital, Sawyer gets an idea to have a doctor there make Winter a prosthetic tail.This proposal inspires the staff at the aquarium and fills Sawyer with the hope that Winter may one day swim again.

With 8-page full color insert!


When a dolphin named Winter loses her tail in a crab trap, Sawyer and the staff at Clearwater Marine Aquarium help her survive against the odds.

Dolphin Tale 🐬

b95199db-7241-400f-ac44-cb593af3d366-1

Virginia Hamilton

No rips or marks. Cover has shelf wear. 
Includes reading group guide. 

Thomas and his family move to a huge historic house that people say is haunted. Will the family discover the secrets of the house, or will they be too scared to stay.


A family tries to unravel the secrets of their new home which was once a stop on the Underground Railroad in this Edgar Award-winning book from Virginia Hamilton.

The house held secrets, Thomas knew, even before he first saw it looming gray and massive on its ledge of rock. It had a century-old legend--two fugitive slaves had been killed by bounty hunters after leaving its passageways, and Dies Drear himself, the abolitionist who had made the house into a station on the Underground Railroad, had been murdered there. The ghosts of the three were said to walk its rooms...

The House of Dies Drear

20530ceb-d6a0-441a-b7b1-2ac55f6a87a6-1

Tom Angleberger

No rips or marks on pages. Cover is bent and worn. 
Strange things are happening at McQuarrie Middle School in The Strange Case of Origami Yoda, the opener to the New York Times bestselling series from Tom Angleberger!

It takes the wisdom of Yoda to survive the sixth grade.

Meet Dwight, a sixth-grade oddball. Dwight does a lot of weird things, like wearing the same T-shirt for a month or telling people to call him "Captain Dwight." But Dwight does one cool thing. He makes origami. One day he makes an origami finger puppet of Yoda. And that's when things get mysterious. Origami Yoda can predict the future and suggest the best way to deal with a tricky situation. His advice actually works, and soon most of the sixth grade is lining up with questions.

Dwight's friend Tommy wants to know how Origami Yoda can be so smart when Dwight is so clueless. Is Yoda tapping into the Force?
This is Tommy's case file of his investigation into The Strange Case of Origami Yoda.

Sixth-grader Tommy and his friends describe their interactions with a paper finger puppet of Yoda, worn by their weird classmate Dwight, as they try to figure out whether or not the puppet can really predict the future. Includes instructions for making Origami Yoda.

The Strange Case of Origami Yoda 🔅

4d899f64-1899-413c-8f15-af83edb24c82-1

Excellent condition A sweeping, evocative debut novel following three generations of Vietnamese American women reeling from the death of their matriarch, revealing the family’s inherited burdens, buried secrets, and unlikely love stories.


Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Banyan Moon 🌕 

Beautiful book. In excellent condition with library dust jacket. 
See photos for condition and beautiful book illustrations. 

Sea grass basket . . .

Sweetgrass basket . . .

Beauty, Her Basket.

"I stick my nose inside the basket as far as it can go. I want to smell its secrets."

Sandra Belton and Cozbi A. Cabrera invite you to the Sea Islands, where a young girl, her cousin Victor, and their Nana are spending the summer together. Therewill be stories to share and pictures to see and secrets worth knowing. Secrets about these times and the old times and tomorrow, too.

Beauty, Her Basket 

Anne M. Zeman

Kate Kelly

No rips or marks. Cover shows signs of shelf wear. See photos for condition and book contents. 

This is a very concise, yet thoroughly presented book for home or school. Includes the history of languages, the percentage of the world population that speak the most common languages, a diagram of Indo-European languages  how they evolved. It defines terms like "semantics", "phonetics", "phonemics", "phonics", "morphemics", etc. It gives nine different alphabets, including sign language, smoke signals and morse code This book is very nicely laid out, easy to read and understand. Parts of speech such as past perfect tense", "present perfect tense" and "future perfect tense" are defined with examples. 

4th - 6th grades 

Everything You Need to Know about English Homework

832114f6-649f-44a6-b71f-8e6e3aa9bfcf-1

Hilarious notes between a son and his mom show how kid logic can be very persuasive.

Alex just has to convince his mom to let him have an iguana, so he puts his arguments in writing. He promises that she won't have to feed it or clean its cage or even see it if she doesn't want to. Of course Mom imagines life with a six-foot-long iguana eating them out of house and home.

Alex's reassures her: It takes fifteen years for an iguana to get that big. I'll be married by then and probably living in my own house

His mom's reply: How are you going to get a girl to marry you when you own a giant reptile?

Kids will be in hysterics as the negotiations go back and forth through notes, and the lively, imaginative illustrations showing their polar opposite dreams of life with an iguana take the humor to even higher heights. No marks or rips. Pages in excellent shape. Covers and edges show signs of shelf wear. 

I Wanna Iguana 🦎 

Cover shows signs of shelf wear. No rips or marks. 
All about volcanoes and earthquakes, giving scientific facts and details on historical disasters. There also facts about the ring of fire. Information about earthquakes in California and Alaska, and tsunamis in Hawaii and Japan are included. Eruptions of Pompeii and other puzzling natural phenomena make for engaging learning. Pangea is mentioned as scientific theory. 


Volcanos and Earthquakes 🌋

Alice Jablonsky

This book answers questions commonly ask about the distinctive plants and animals of the American Southwest deserts. Features illustrations by Brian Wignall and photos by top Southwest nature photographers. Engaging and informative. The photos and illustrations Are beautiful and very detailed. 

🌵

A collection of one hundred and one questions about life in the desert.

One Hundred One Questions about Desert Life

570a7008-27b2-4ce5-bcf2-92af52d30b76-0

Full-color photos &  full-color illus. All kinds of fish are introduced in this underwater walking tour--fish with no eyes, fish that climb trees, fish that breathe with both gills and lungs, and fish that change color.  

This book also describes the types of fish and their shapes and colors. Also, this book fully describes sea horses, catfish, anglerfish, and rays.

Amazing Fish 🐟 

Christine A. Caputo

Birds 🦅 

52852506-396d-44d1-b053-748ea7607667-0

Fish 🐟 

e492f960-636d-4fd1-9d9d-5121c7186000-0

Robin Meade

Robin Meade is the poster child for confidence and self-assurance. But the anchor of Morning Express with Robin Meade wasn't always that way. In fact, there was a period in her career when she was plagued with anxiety and panic attacks. In MORNING SUNSHINE, she tells how she overcame her fear of public speaking to go on and achieve her dream of becoming a news anchor.

Robin Meade offers her own tried-and-true four-step approach to building confidence. Her trademark warm, personal style translates from the screen to the page in this book, which will give readers even more insight into the young woman who came out of nowhere to become one of the most popular news anchors on television today.


How to Radiate Confidence and Feel It Too

Robin Meade is the poster child for confidence and self-assurance. But the anchor of Morning Express with Robin Meade wasn't always that way. In fact, there was a period in her career when she was plagued with anxiety and panic attacks. In MORNING SUNSHINE, she tells how she overcame her fear of public speaking to go on and achieve her dream of becoming a news anchor.

Robin Meade offers her own tried-and-true four-step approach to building confidence. Her trademark warm, personal style translates from the screen to the page in this book, which will give readers even more insight into the young woman who came out of nowhere to become one of the most popular news anchors on television today.

Morning Sunshine! ☀️ 

7f60525e-58fc-43eb-8353-e03863440a1f-1

Reading & Language Arts

Phonics 

Explode the Code 

365 science experiments for kids. The book is spiral ring bound to lay flat. It is divided into categories of Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Geology& Geography, Physics and Weather. The book includes some really cool and unusual experiments for school or home! Also includes fun science facts. 

Browse by categories

Save

Savings

Robert Byrd

Electric Ben ⚡️

Peter H Reynolds

Say Something 📝

Julie Danneberg

First Day Jitters 🚌

Melissa Stewart

A Rainbow of Animals 🐸

Jane O Connor

Nancy Clancy super sleuth 🕵️‍♀️

Nancy Ohlin

Blast Back 🌠

Melvin D. Levine

Educational Care

Gabrielle Reyes

Dolphin Tale 🐬

Virginia Hamilton

The House of Dies Drear

Tom Angleberger

The Strange Case of Origami Yoda 🔅

Thao Thai

Banyan Moon 🌕

20 off

20%

Sandra Belton

Beauty, Her Basket

Anne M. Zeman; Kate Kelly

Everything You Need to Know about English Homework

Karen Kaufman

I Wanna Iguana 🦎

Patrica Lauber

Volcanos and Earthquakes 🌋

Alice Jablonsky

One Hundred One Questions about Desert Life

Eyewitness Books

Amazing Fish 🐟

Christine A. Caputo

Birds 🦅

Christine A. Caputo

Fish 🐟

Robin Meade

Morning Sunshine! ☀️

Hall & Price

Explode the Code

Glen Singleton

Cool Science Experiments 🔬

Get The App