Jennifer Brown

"Luke Abbott's school is the losing-est school in the history of losing. And that's just fine for him. He'd rather be at home playing video games and avoiding his older brother Rob and the Greatest Betrayal of All Time. But now he's being forced to join the robotics team, where surely he'll help uphold the school's losing streak"--

Rebecca is having a sleepover. Her friends ride the bus with her to her house after school. They eat a snack, help out in the kitchen, watch a movie, and stay up all night talking. This book shows what a typical young child's sleepover is like and will help readers understand this common experience. The colorful illustrations and corresponding text will help foster a love of reading in emerging readers as well as younger listeners.

Rebecca is having a sleepover. Her friends ride the bus with her to her house after school. They eat a snack, help out in the kitchen, watch a movie, and stay up all night talking. This book shows what a typical young child's sleepover is like and will help readers understand this common experience. The colorful illustrations and corresponding text will help foster a love of reading in emerging readers as well as younger listeners.

Twelve-year-old Arcturus Betelgeuse Chambers' quest to find life on other planets seems at an end when his parents decide to move to Las Vegas, but while they look for a house he stays with his neighbor, an astronaut who soon becomes a friend.

"The Little Drummer Boy" joins the procession to Bethlehem to offer gifts to the Christ Child. Buddy McGee eagerly awaits a promised visit from his friend, so he can wish him "Merry Christmas, Space Case." "Sam and the Lucky Money" examines the dilemma of how one young boy spends his Chinese New Year's gift. On a crisp, cold, snowy, still winter's night, "The Tomten" of a humble farm homestead goes about on his secret rounds doing his caretaker duties...