Author: Janet S. Wong
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN: 1466894849
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
A surprising friendship Do you ever feel like you've somehow lost your true best friend? Minn feels this way. So does Jake. But Minn and Jake have no intention of being friends. Minn's a string bean. Jake's a shrimp. Minn's a girl. Jake's a boy. And in fifth grade, who wants a best friend of the opposite sex? But Minn and Jake are forced together by circumstances, which only strengthen their resistance . . . until Minn takes Jake lizard hunting. There are lots of good ways to choose a friend. This enchanting free-verse novel, accompanied by expressive, humorous black-and-white drawings, proves that sometimes friendship just happens.
Minn and Jake
Author: Janet S. Wong
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN: 1466894849
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
A surprising friendship Do you ever feel like you've somehow lost your true best friend? Minn feels this way. So does Jake. But Minn and Jake have no intention of being friends. Minn's a string bean. Jake's a shrimp. Minn's a girl. Jake's a boy. And in fifth grade, who wants a best friend of the opposite sex? But Minn and Jake are forced together by circumstances, which only strengthen their resistance . . . until Minn takes Jake lizard hunting. There are lots of good ways to choose a friend. This enchanting free-verse novel, accompanied by expressive, humorous black-and-white drawings, proves that sometimes friendship just happens.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN: 1466894849
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
A surprising friendship Do you ever feel like you've somehow lost your true best friend? Minn feels this way. So does Jake. But Minn and Jake have no intention of being friends. Minn's a string bean. Jake's a shrimp. Minn's a girl. Jake's a boy. And in fifth grade, who wants a best friend of the opposite sex? But Minn and Jake are forced together by circumstances, which only strengthen their resistance . . . until Minn takes Jake lizard hunting. There are lots of good ways to choose a friend. This enchanting free-verse novel, accompanied by expressive, humorous black-and-white drawings, proves that sometimes friendship just happens.
Minn and Jake's Almost Terrible Summer
Author: Janet S. Wong
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN: 1466894857
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
There are a few things / about your best friend that you can only learn / when you see where he's from. Minn knew / that Jake was from the city. But she didn't know / that his grandmother was Korean. That he liked taking bubble baths. / That his brother, Soup, might be an eating champion. / That Jake was a cheater, and that he had a . . . / girlfriend?! There are some things / about your best friend that it's better not / to know. Bouncing free verse and playful black-and-white illustrations combine to make this a charming follow-up to Minn and Jake. Minn and Jake's Almost Terrible Summer is a 2009 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN: 1466894857
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
There are a few things / about your best friend that you can only learn / when you see where he's from. Minn knew / that Jake was from the city. But she didn't know / that his grandmother was Korean. That he liked taking bubble baths. / That his brother, Soup, might be an eating champion. / That Jake was a cheater, and that he had a . . . / girlfriend?! There are some things / about your best friend that it's better not / to know. Bouncing free verse and playful black-and-white illustrations combine to make this a charming follow-up to Minn and Jake. Minn and Jake's Almost Terrible Summer is a 2009 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.
Minn and Jake : Book Room
Author: Janet S. Wong
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780329687571
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Fifth-grader Minn, the tallest girl in school, begins a rocky friendship with Jake, a new student who is not only very short, but is also afraid of the worms and lizards that Minn likes to collect.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780329687571
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Fifth-grader Minn, the tallest girl in school, begins a rocky friendship with Jake, a new student who is not only very short, but is also afraid of the worms and lizards that Minn likes to collect.
The Trip Back Home
Author: Janet S. Wong
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780152007843
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
A young girl and her mother travel to Korea to visit their extended family.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780152007843
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
A young girl and her mother travel to Korea to visit their extended family.
Behind the Wheel
Author: Janet S. Wong
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0689825315
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Thirty-six poems look at various aspects of driving, including passing the written driver's test, being pulled over by a cop, and having an accident, and treat them as metaphors for life.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0689825315
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Thirty-six poems look at various aspects of driving, including passing the written driver's test, being pulled over by a cop, and having an accident, and treat them as metaphors for life.
Hide & Seek
Author: Janet S. Wong
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780152049348
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
In this counting book, a child and parent play hide-and-seek while they bake cookies.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780152049348
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
In this counting book, a child and parent play hide-and-seek while they bake cookies.
You Have to Write
Author: Janet S. Wong
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
ISBN: 9780689834097
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
You have to write! It's a class assignment. But you have nothing to write about. All the other kids seem to have something to tell because they start in right away. What can you do? Stop and think. No one else can tell your stories -- about your family, your dog or cat. No one else can tell how it was when your library book got soaked in the rain. But what if you don't like what you write? There are all sorts of ways to change it, to make it better. Keep on playing with your words, putting them together in different ways. You want whatever you write to be good. It will get better and better as you work on it. This is an encouraging book, sympathetically illustrated by Teresa Flavin's charming pictures, for all young readers who worry when they're told to write something.
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
ISBN: 9780689834097
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
You have to write! It's a class assignment. But you have nothing to write about. All the other kids seem to have something to tell because they start in right away. What can you do? Stop and think. No one else can tell your stories -- about your family, your dog or cat. No one else can tell how it was when your library book got soaked in the rain. But what if you don't like what you write? There are all sorts of ways to change it, to make it better. Keep on playing with your words, putting them together in different ways. You want whatever you write to be good. It will get better and better as you work on it. This is an encouraging book, sympathetically illustrated by Teresa Flavin's charming pictures, for all young readers who worry when they're told to write something.
Twist
Author: Janet S. Wong
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0689873948
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
A collection of poems composed to inspire different yoga poses.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0689873948
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
A collection of poems composed to inspire different yoga poses.
The Dumpster Diver
Author: Janet S. Wong
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 9780763623807
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Once a month--every week in the summer--Steve the electrician dons special gear and, with the help of youngsters who live in his building, dives into a dumpster seeking useful objects that they can transform into imaginative new ones.
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 9780763623807
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Once a month--every week in the summer--Steve the electrician dons special gear and, with the help of youngsters who live in his building, dives into a dumpster seeking useful objects that they can transform into imaginative new ones.
Max and Jake
Author: Joan Jarden
Publisher: Nelson Thornes
ISBN: 9780170096935
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Designed to be used by children in their first six months of school PM Starters One and Two
Publisher: Nelson Thornes
ISBN: 9780170096935
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Designed to be used by children in their first six months of school PM Starters One and Two