Sarah Weeks

After the death of Polly Portman, whose award-winning pies put the town of Ipswitch, Pennsylvania, on the map in the 1950s, her devoted niece Alice and Alice's friend Charlie investigate who is going to extremes to find Aunt Polly's secret pie crust recipe. Includes fourteen pie recipes.

Each animal decides to give their valentine something meaningful to them, with flaps revealing the special gift.

Ravi has just moved to the United States from India and has always been at the top of his class; Joe has lived in the same town his whole life and has learning problems--but when their lives intersect in the first week of fifth grade they are brought together by a common enemy (the biggest bully in their class) and the need to take control of their lives.

Despite a language barrier, a dog and cat fall in love with the help of a buried trombone.

When Sam the lamb has trouble sneezing, the other animals try to help.

When Ella is banned from bringing her umbrella to the dance recital, she comes up with an ingenious solution to the problem.

A youngster experiences the emotions of being the last to be picked up at school.

After spending her life with her mentally retarded mother and agoraphobic neighbor, twelve-year-old Heidi sets out from Reno, Nevada, to New York to find out who she is.

A look at the many different ways to prepare the very same food, as everyone in a diner orders eggs.

Neither a long list of rules, nor the inability to find the perfect gift--Cheddar Jam--nor being locked in a bathroom with a juggling bear will keep quirky fourth-grader Oggie Cooder from attending neighbor Donnica Perfecto's birthday pool party.