All Aboard Reading

Keegan and Alex are the only kids in Leamington who haven't volunteered to help out with the town's annual tomato festival. In an attempt to teach them a sense of responsibility, their fathers put them in charge of the tomato toss. The boys decide it's their responsibility to add a little excitement to the event. They exchange the traditional wooden targets for human targets and, before they know it, they are running the most popular event at the fair. The excitement may be too much for the sleepy town and soon the tomato toss is taken to the streets.

It s show-and-tell day at Ruby s school, and Ruby is going to show off her cake. Max wants to come, but Ruby says that he can t he is too young for school! Find out what happens when Max goes anyway in this sweet and funny All Aboard Picture Reader.

In Snail City life is slow and the snails like it that way, all except for Gail.

The principal bakes a gingerbread kid. He puts on eyes, a nose, and a mouth. The gingerbread kid runs away. Can they catch him? Based on the folk tale, The gingerbread boy.

An accident becomes an opportunity for Nina to stand out in a group of dancing butterflies at the dance show.

Provides a look at the private side of Abraham Lincoln and at the circumstances surrounding his short, but memorable speech at the dedication of the cemetery at the Gettysburg battlefield. Includes text of the speech.

Abby is the best speller in the class until a new witch shows up at school and the two of them compete in a spelling bee to see who will win a new broomstick.

As Class Picture Day approaches, Robby is upset about being the only child in class who has not lost a tooth, and so he writes a letter to the Tooth Fairy in hopes that she can help.

Morgie accuses his best friend of taking his favorite dinosaur toy without asking, and then he finds that he must apologize.

When Reese takes Robot to school for show-and-tell, Ben tries to show that his parrot Polly is better than Robot.

When a young girl starts dance class with another girl who has the same name, she is upset that the other girl copies everything she does.

Although her grandmother thinks that Kate is ready to own the porcelain doll that has been in the family for generations, her mother disagrees until Kate proves herself responsible.

When Kate gets new, big kids' ice skates and gives her old ones to her little sister, she is surprised that the new ones are much harder to use.

Three easy-to-read scary stories about a talking doll, a dog picture that barks, and a Halloween monster.

Reese's robot makes some mistakes before finally helping Reese's friend Lucy find her missing kitten.

The guests at a pajama party eat, dance, watch movies, tell ghost stories, and do everything except go to sleep.

Nina creates a problem for herself when she tells her friends that she will be a star in the upcoming ballet performance and they misunderstand her.

Describes the life of the mother of our first president and her relationship with her children.

Ruby wants to teach Max all the things a wise big sister knows, such as the alphabet, numbers, and colors. But first she has to teach him to pay attention!

A biography of the sixteen-year-old figure skater who rose from fourth place to win the gold medal in the 2002 Olympics.

Discusses who the Neanderthals were, when and how they lived, and how we know about them.

William becomes a better baseball player when he concentrates more on the game and less on his joke telling.

The little blue engine encourages a clown, unable to ride his birthday bike, to keep trying.

Even though he loves to ride his bicycle, a young boy makes excuses not to because he is the only one of his friends to still have training wheels.

The Machine that Jerome and Curtis have made in the garage causes them to be sucked into their new video game, where they try to perform impossible tasks while avoiding the Four Evil Frogs.

Mike's trip to the store for animal cookies results in magical changes in each member of his family.

Steve finds a magic yo-yo in his attic and uses it to save Earth from being destroyed by the Blobs of Kazoo.

Benny brags about being good at so many things that the other campers decide to teach him a lesson.

Describes the formation of the Women's National Basketball Association, presents season recaps of the teams and player profiles, and gives an account of the first championship game.

Bob and Rob Headley, a two-headed monster, love doing everything together, especially playing catcher on a team in the Little Monster League.

Lucky the puppy searches for a bone with surprising results.

A young girl's lucky ring helps her be the perfect flower girl in her sister's wedding.

When she learns that she will not be in the same class as her friends, Annie worries about starting second grade with a new teacher.

Lucky the dog wonders what he will do all day when the little boy who owns him starts attending school.