New Releases by Andrew Clements

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

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.

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?

A big, ugly fish has trouble making the friends he longs for because of his appearance--until the day his scary appearance saves them all from a fisherman''s net.