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The Becket List: A Blackberry Farm Story

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How to Be a Country Kid:

  1. Goodbye, City!

  2. Do Barnyard Chores

  3. Make a New Best Friend

Everything is changing for Becket Branch! From subways to sidewalks to safety rules, Becket is a city kid born and raised. Now the Branch family is trading the urban bustle for Blackberry Farm, where Becket has to make sense of chores, animals, and big green fields. And as much as Becket loves to yell "Beautiful Alert!" there's a lot about the countryside that is just plain odd.

Becket is determined to use her city smarts to get a grip on country living. From selling mouth-puckering lemonade to caring for hostile hens, laugh and learn with Becket as she mucks through the messy exuberant human experience of change she didn't ask for, in a story that sparkles with quirky characters and lasting connections.

“This is not just a terrific book about sharing friends with siblings, rolling with changes, and the difficulty of making new friends after a move. It is also (spoiler alert) a terrific, gentle, earnest book for coping with pet loss . . . [Griffin’s] humor, pathos, quick character development, and enjoyable dialogue are just as good as ever, and Pham’s illustrations . . . are charming and beautifully humorous in how they capture emotional expression. A sparkling story of weathering change.”
— Booklist, starred review
 
 

All Pets Allowed: A Blackberry Farm Story

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More than anything else—even more than the best birthday party ever—Becket Branch wants a dog for her tenth birthday. But her twin brother, Nicholas, has secretly been wishing for a cat. Lucky for Becket and Nicholas, their animal-loving parents have an animal-loving surprise for them: they’re going to the local shelter and adopting both a cat and a dog. It should be the biggest BEAUTIFUL ALERT ever, but Becket’s dream dog, Dibs, turns out to be a super-shy scaredy-pooch who is going to need a lot of training. Meanwhile, Nicholas’s cat, Given, is more outgoing and attention-seeking than the just-for-him pet he was expecting.

Laugh along as Becket fishes mice out of Nicholas’s slippers, puts bullies in their place, and tries, and tries again, to train Dibs—all while learning new life lessons and keeping up with her other farm chores.

With black-and-white drawings throughout by award-winning illustrator LeUyen Pham (Real Friends), this second volume of the Blackberry Farm series offers a gentle message about embracing new friends who may not match preconceived expectations.

 
 

The Oodlethunks: Oona Finds an Egg

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Oona has found a very special egg. Oh, how she loves her baby! She'll do anything to protect this egg until it hatches. Then she can find out what's inside, even though it might just gobble her up! But Oona's precious bundle of eggy joy may never see the light of day. It seems everyone wants Oona's egg. Her little brother, Bonk, that smelly kid, Bruce Brute, and a bunch of others in her West Woggle world all want a piece of Oona's treasure. Oona the protector, Oona the curious, Oona the mighty will do whatever it takes to safeguard her darling. No one will get their grimy, Cro-Magnony hands on her egg. Because, more than anything, Oona wants something of her very own to care for.

“Oona rocks!”
— Sarah Mlynowski, New York Times bestselling author of the Whatever After series
“Adele Griffin has ‘thunk’ up a winner and Mike Wu’s cave drawings are perfectly prehistoric.”
— Jack Gantos, a Neanderthal reader
 
 
 

The Oodlethunks: Steg-O-Normous

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Now that Oona's dino-baby has hatched from its egg, things have gotten even wackier! Stacy the enormous stegosaurus, can't wait to explore her new world. And Oona can't wait to show her off. But not everyone's ready for this big bundle of joy whose having the time of her life romping and chomping through West Woggle. With Bonk, Bruce Brute, Erma, and even the mean witch, Old Brouhaha, on the case, this loveable babe finds her right place in the hearts of these Stone-Age folks who come to depend on this Stacy Steg to save them from some prehistoric perils.

 

The Oodlethunks: Welcome to Camp Woggle

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Who says kids are the only ones who can have fun during the summer? Oona Oodlethunk and her brother Bonk are ready to change all that. When they hatch a plan to create a "Collected Animals Meeting Place," Camp Woggle is born! But hold onto your sunhat, this isn't your typical "boondoggle-lanyard" camp. And none of the campers arrive with bug repellent or sunscreen. This happy "All Pets Allowed" place is strictly for prehistoric pets. Dinosaurs, fruitafossors, lemurs, turtles, and even pet rocks are welcome, as long as they stick to Camp Woggle's rules:

  1. No Chewing or Biting (Unless It's Your Food)

  2. Be Kind and Thoughtful

  3. Older Pets Get First Turn

  4. No Dangerous Predators Allowed

  5. When Nature Calls, Wash Your Paws

This wacky West Woggle adventure stars some pretty impressive critters and lots of action-packed Stone-Age facts!

 
 
 

Agnes and Clarabelle

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Meet Agnes and Clarabelle!

Agnes the pig and Clarabelle the chicken are best friends through every season! Whether it's planning the perfect birthday party in the spring, spending a summer day at the beach, braving a big department store in the fall, or making the very best pizza in winter, they help each other through every up and down. For Agnes and Clarabelle, everything is better when they're together!

“An engaging visual design, charming characters, and funny, relatable story lines make this a lovely addition to chapter book collections.”
— School Library Journal
 
 

Agnes and Clarabelle Celebrate!

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Celebrate with Agnes and Clarabelle!

Agnes the pig and Clarabelle the chicken are best friends who love to celebrate holidays! They wear flower crowns and dance around the Maypole, perform in the Fourth of July parade, make the spookiest Halloween costumes, and count down the New Year in style.

Three . . . two . . . one . . . fun!

For Agnes and Clarabelle, everything is better when they're together!

“Designed for readers just graduating from leveled readers, this has sturdy paper; plentiful, full-color illustrations; large type; and lots of dialogue. . . . Humor mixes with these relatable tales of friendship, making this series starter fine fodder for fledgling readers.”
— Booklist