Claudia Mills
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After-school superstars volume 3
Publisher
Holiday House
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Third-grader Lucy Lopez attends coding camp at her after-school program and becomes a coding star.
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How Oliver Olson Changed the World is an irresistible chapter book from Claudia Mills, featuring lively illustrations by Heather Maione. Oliver Olson learns that before you can change the world, sometimes you need to change yourself.
Oliver Olson's teacher is always saying that one person with a big idea can change the world. But, how is Oliver supposed to change the world when his parents won't let him do anything on his own-not his class projects...
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Franklin School friends volume 2
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
122 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Description
Annika hopes to change her best friends' hatred of math by winning a Sudoku contest, but she does not realize how important their lack of mathematical ability is until they make a mistake at the school carnival.
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Franklin School friends volume 3
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
136 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Description
"The third book in the Franklin School Friends series is a fast and funny story about sports, friendship, and sibling rivalries"--
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Mason Dixon volume 1
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
154 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
Nine-year-old Mason's parents keep trying to get him a pet, but until he and his best friend Brody adopt a three-legged dog, he is not interested.
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Franklin School friends volume 5
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
136 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Description
"Cody Harmon loves animals--he even has nine pets--so when the school holds a pet show fundraiser, it should be his time to shine"--
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Series
After-school superstars volume 2
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
144 pages.
Description
Third-grader Vera, a budding artist who loves every minute of her after-school comic-book camp, searches for a way to get her mother's permission to attend the camp's final field trip to Comic-Con.
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Series
Franklin School friends volume 4
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
130 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Description
Simon Ellis and the rest of the third grade Franklin School Friends participate in a spelling bee where Simon's competitive spirit takes over until he realizes that sometimes the best way to win is to take a chance and let other people shine.
Author
Series
After-school superstars volume 1
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
118 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Description
Nixie and Grace have been best and only friends since preschool, but now Nixie must attend an after-school cooking camp while Grace spends her afternoons with classmate Elyse.
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Series
After-school superstars volume 4
Publisher
Margaret Ferguson Books, Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
112 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Description
Boogie Bass feels his best friend, Nolan, is better than he at everything, even caring for Boogie's little brothers, but an after-school camp reveals Boogie's talent at communicating using American Sign Language. Includes facts about ASL.
Author
Series
Franklin School friends volume 1
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
122 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Description
Kelsey is the best reader in her third grade class, and she is determined to lead her class to victory in the all-school reading contest.
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Amanda MacLeish might be the only student in Mr. Abrams's fifth-grade class who doesn't mind doing her homework. Now that her father has left home and moved into a motel, the only thing that brings Amanda any joy is writing her fictional diary entries about a young girl named Polly who lives amid the chaos of the Civil War. Polly would understand Amanda. With one brother fighting for the North and one fighting for the South, Polly knows just how it...
17) Losers, Inc
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Ethan Winfield has never been an academic or athletic star like his older brother, Peter. But, does that make him a failure? Of course not. Still, Ethan and his best friend, Julius Zimmerman, decide that they qualify to found an exclusive club: Losers, Inc.
No sooner have they done this, however, than both boys fall in love with the new student teacher. Ethan knows right away that to impress Ms. Gunderson he has to excel. Instead of reading the shortest...
18) Dinah Forever
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Dinah Seabrooke is in seventh grade and distraught at learning that the sun will vaporize the earth in about 5 billion years. Nothing matters anymore-not class elections, the school play, even her relationship with Nick. Then Dinah suffers her first loss and discovers the reasons to live fully even though nothing lasts forever.
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A wise guy gets wise
The school year is almost over, and Alex Ryan still has plenty of pranks to pull and jokes to tell. Then his dad attends the meeting about the seventh-grade outdoor education trip. Alex knows nothing good can come of this, Mr. Ryan is a jester, too, and the butt of his funny stories is often Alex. Still, Alex is not prepared for the comment that mortifies him in front of pretty, popular Marcia Faitak, his friend Dave Barnett,...
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The sequel to Losers, Inc.
Twelve-year-old Julius Zimmerman is the former vice president of the defunct organization Losers, Inc. Ethan Winfield, the former president, no longer feels like a loser. But Julius still does, maybe because his mother thinks of him that way. To "improve" him, Mrs. Zimmerman signs Julius up for a summer course in intensive French and for a part-time job baby-sitting three-year-old Edison Blue. She also sets a summer reading...