Knock Knock category: 8708 books

How many excuses are there for not doing homework? Let us count the ways: Giant lizards invaded the neighborhood. Elves hid all the pencils. And then there was that problem with carnivorous plants.... The excuses go on and on, each more absurd than the next and escalating to hilarious heights. Featuring...

When you have a ghost as your friend, like Tom Golden does, you quickly learn the benefits. Grey Arthur supplies Tom with pens in class, grabs Tom's lunch when he forgets it, and generally helps him out as any best friend would. It's just that, in this case, no one else can see Grey. But right...

“This tightly paced narrative soars.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “An owl and a monkey confront jealousy, the fickleness of want, and the influence of other perspectives in this high-energy story.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “A definite purchase that will...

Rise and shine—ready or not! A cheerful parrot pushes the limits of early-morning energy in this exuberant picture book from the author-illustrator of Red Sled and Flight School. Good morning, Mouse! Good morning, Kitty! Good morning, Gracie! And GOOD MORNING TO ME! It’s a sleepy...

It's that Halloweeny time of year, and Howie, Arthur, Kristy, and Cora are on a mission to create the perfect haunted house event at the store in order to win over new customers. Turns out, it's not as easy as it sounds -- especially when you're trying to charm the town's most popular (and...

WARNING! As of today, there are only 7 CHILDREN who have ever read this book and lived to tell about it. 95 CHILDREN successfully read the first chapter, but upon beginning chapter 2, they started BLABBERING in some language known only as "flibberish." 38 CHILDREN made it halfway through...

After acclimating to the inane customs of the blathering human fools, Dirk Lloyd has managed to make contact with his home in the Darklands. Unfortunately, his powers have betrayed him yet again. His new, and dare he say it, good friend Sooz has been transported to his Iron Tower of Despair, where...

Captain Underpants fans will be gleefully disgusted with this new laugh-out-loud series, starring a boy so gross they named him Yuck. In “Yuck’s Slime Monster,” the Prince of Pungency hatches a disgusting plan—if he can’t bring his pet slug to school, he’ll bring a Slime Monster...

PARENTS/GRANDPARENTS - HOOK A KID ON READING WITH THIS HUMOROUS SERIES This omnibus edition includes the first THREE books in Kell, The Alien series - see individual title for more reviews: Publisher’s Weekly says, “amusing” and “engaging and accessible." School Library...

¿Su hija no ríe que cuando les jala la coleta a sus amigas? ¿Su pequeñito ha instaurado un reino de terror? ¡No se preocupe! El doctor Hinojosa, profesional de la desmalcriarización, revela aquí las técnicas que lo han hecho tan solicitado por los progenitores de niños malcriados.

Every class has to come up with an idea for a booth at the school carnival. Too bad Hubie's class has chosen a dunking booth. And they want him to be the one who gets dunked! Boy is he sunk because he can't even swim! And to top it all off, there might be sharks in at the bottom of the tank! Yikes!

Do you dare set foot in Spooking? It's the terrible town on the hideous hill -- and Joy Wells is a proud resident. A fan of classic horror stories, Joy is convinced that famous author E. A. Peugeot based his spine-tingling tales on Spooking. Take the eerie similarities between the nearby swamp...

Julia Alvarez’s heartwarming novel—now in Spanish. De cómo tía Lola vino de visita a quedarse, una novela juvenil de Julia Alvarez, cuenta la deliciosa historia de una familia dominicana, instalada en Vermont, que recibe la visita de una pariente muy especial. La irresistible, incontrolable...

“The hottest sleuth to appear in children’s books since Nancy Drew” (The Boston Globe) is back! Don’t miss the fourth book in the series that’s been described as “a combination of Carl Hiaasen’s Flush and Janet Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum books” (School Library Journal) and hailed...