New Releases by Andrew Clements

When he decides to turn his fifth grade teacher''s love of the dictionary around on her, clever Nick Allen invents a new word and begins a chain of events that quickly moves beyond his control.

This pairing of fiction and non-fiction literature features a story about a boy and his father on a desert camping trip and a mystery they uncover and a monograph about desert ecology.

Milo, who does not share his family''s fondness for peas, invents a machine to make the unpleasant vegetables disappear.

Poor Big Al! He just wants to make friends. And in the whole wide blue sea you can''t find a nicer fish. But because Big Al is large and scary-looking, the little fish are afraid to get to know him. What can he do? He tries everything he can think of -- from disguising himself with seaweed to burrowing under the ocean floor so he''ll look smaller. But something always goes wrong, and lonely Big Al wonders if he''ll ever have a single friend. Then one frightening day, when a fishing net captures the other fish, Big Al gets the chance to prove what a wonderful friend he can be!

It was an ordinary Monday morning in Walla Walla—until Lulu walked up to her English teacher''s desk. "Mrs. Bell, I feel like a nit-wit. My homework is all higgledy-piggledy. Last night it was in tip-top shape, but now it''s a big mish-mash." With those few words, things become not so ordinary after all, for it seems that Lulu has opened up a super-duper, helter-skelter WORD WARP. Luckily for Lulu and the rest of the English-speaking world, the school nurse has an idea about how to handle this hodge-podge of topsy-turvy chit-chat. Will it work? Zig-zag through the jibber-jabber and the yakety-yak to find out!

Adorable Allegra''s pint-sized perspectives on a world filled with wonders Inspired by the sounds of early morning -- a bird chirping, Daddy stirring oatmeal, tin clattering in a bag on board Encora''s bicycle -- Allegra has a great idea for music time at Little Blue Day Care.

When Buster was a baby his family made a wish for him. They soon find out that Buster was all that and more.

An acting troupe performs a special show for the moon when he comes down for a visit. Features split pages that can be flipped to combine different characters and costumes and die-cut pages with a moon on a string.

One Christmas Eve Santa has a secret helper who sets off in a reindeer-drawn sleigh with a huge sack of toys, just like Santa. But who is it? And will the helper do the job as well as Santa?