Ann McGovern

This book tells what it was like to live in the days of the knights during the Middle Ages.

Summary: Ghost stories, games, magic tricks, questions and answers, word puzzles for Halloween or year-round scares.

Describes what life was like in New York City, then the largest city in the United States, during the 1890's.

When Lizzie and Ben discover a homeless lady living in their neighborhood, they must reconcile their desire to help her with their mother's admonition not to talk to strangers.

Provides basic information about sharks through use of the question and answer format.

Bear dreams of all kinds of unusual birthday parties--on a pirate ship, at the circus, on a train, at the zoo, under the sea, and more.

In a series of diary entries, a young child describes a trip to the Galápagos Islands, focusing on the exotic animal life.

A twelve-year-old girl recounts her experiences on the Great Barrier Reef, encountering sharks, sea snakes, and giant clams, exploring the wreck of a ghost ship, observing shore life, and exploring the reef from a dive boat as well as a helicopter.

Relates in rhyme the utter mess made by a child's eating eggs.

24 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cmNC670L Lexile

A twelve-year-old girl describes the underwater life she sees while scuba diving at night in the Caribbean.

A bored little rich boy is shipwrecked on a faraway island where he is happier than he has ever been before.

A lonely, thin man searches for just the right companion to share the narrowest house in the city.

Describes the life of a humpback whale from the time of her birth when she weighs almost a ton to adulthood five years later.

A biography of the ichthyologist whose interest in fish began at the age of nine during weekly trips to the Aquarium in New York City.