Joe Cepeda
Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
In this rhythmic cumulative tale Rosa Maria spends the week getting ready for her granddaughter's birthday party and trying to avoid attracting mice--unaware that the mice in her walls are preparing for a party of their own.
5) I, Freddy
Author
Series
Golden hamster saga volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Freddy, a remarkably intelligent golden hamster, learns how to read and how to write on a computer and escapes captivity to become an independent and civilized creature.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
In a Mexican setting, this fable tells of an old fool's adventures on the way to a barbecue. Misunderstanding his wife's instructions, an old man sets out for a party with a door on his back. This humorous tale is about an old man who cannot seem to listen to his wife. As she leaves for a barbecue, she reminds him to bring "el puerco"--The pig that will be roasted as a main dish. He later wonders why she wants him to bring "la puerta"-the door-but...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
In his continuing adventures, Freddy, a golden hamster who can read and write, joins his animal and human friends to save a colony of endangered field hamsters from being killed when an automobile plant is constructed on their land.
11) Vroomaloom zoom
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Daddy takes Carmela on an imaginary car ride, lulling her to sleep with various sounds, from the wurgle lurgle of swamps to the hoopty doopty swoopty loopty of driving in circles.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Although they are normal and obedient pets during the day, at night Irving Dog and Ermine Cat rise and shake and roam as Daring Dog and Captain Cat, twirling capes and flashing swords and chasing crooks.
14) Try your best
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
When Ann worries that she is not good enough to participate in Sports Day, her teacher encourages her to try her best.
Author
Series
Get ready for Gabí volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
In Northern California, Maritza Gabriela Morales Mercado struggles to deal with the third grade bully, to control her temper, and to remember to speak Spanish at home and English at school.
16) Freddy in peril
Author
Series
Golden hamster saga volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
A cat, two guinea pigs, and a colony of brave sewer rats band together in order to save Freddy, a golden hamster, from an evil scientist who's discovered that Freddy can read and write, and plans to hamster-nap him in order to dissect his brain.