Showing results for "Crazy" in Growing Up & Facts of Life

Fall is Emma's favorite season. She loves the weather, the leaves, and most of all, the apples! Every fall, Emma's dad takes Emma and her best friend, Izzie, to the apple orchard. And every year they pick dozens of apples so they can make apple pies, applesauce, apple tarts, and other apple treats. But this year, things don't go as planned at the orchard. Follow Emma and Izzie on their apple adventure in this early chapter book from the Emma Every Day series.

The Coretta Scott King Award–winning Gone Crazy in Alabama by Newbery Honor and New York Times bestselling author Rita Williams-Garcia tells the story of the Gaither sisters as they travel from the streets of Brooklyn to the rural South for the summer of a lifetime. Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern...

A silly sibling rivalry easy reader that gets kids laughing. Do you have a big sister? Do you know how to drive her crazy? With a rubber snake, some bubble gum, and a really great hiding space, Bradley Harris Pinkerton shows just how easy it is! Early-grade kids with big sisters are likely to...

A poignant and powerful coming of age story perfect for fans of Wonder and The Thing about Jellyfish You've never met anyone exactly like twelve-year-old Sarah Nelson. While most of her friends obsess over Harry Potter, she spends her time writing letters to Atticus Finch. She collects trouble...

Being a kid is like having two permanent police officers watching you all the time - even when you're going to the bathroom. At least that’s how it feels to Billy March. He’s been grounded for 63% of the past month. The thing is, every time Billy almost gets his parents’ trust back, his mind wanders off, and he causes another disaster! Like the time he and his best friend Keenan decided to play droid war in a parking lot — and ended up launching a shopping cart into a car…

In The Crazy Cousins, Jack’s in the mood for mooching around, not playing with his crazy cousins! But will his bad mood spoil the whole day?

Mick is a good kid, but maybe he can use just a little guidance. But it's unclear who will be guiding whom, because Mick's brother came home from Tibet with the self-proclaimed Guru Lumpo Smythe-Finkel and his dog Lhasa—and then promptly settled both of them in Mick's bedroom. The thing about this kind of guru is that he doesn't seem to know exactly what he's trying to do. He sure does seem to be hungry, though. So Mick agrees to something like a quest, roaming the suburbs with the oddest group of misfits.

When Claudia's wacky Aunt Peaches moves to Stoneybrook, full of fun and expecting a baby, Claudia thinks she will have the time of her life, until one of Peaches's antics gets Claudia in trouble, and a fight ends in tragedy.

Stacey and Mary Anne are baby-sitting for the Pike family for two weeks at the New Jersey shore. Things are great in Sea City: There's a gorgeous house right on the beach, a boardwalk, plenty of sun and sand...and the cutest boy Stacey has ever seen! Mary Anne thinks that Stacey should leave Scott alone and focus on the Pike kids, but Stacey's in love. Looking for reasons to hang around his lifeguard stand takes up all of her time, which means Mary Anne has to do the job of two baby-sitters.

Kennst du schon Familie Hackebart? Nichts scheint in diesem Urlaub zu klappen. Die Hackebarts verpassen ihr Flugzeug und kommen viel zu spät am Urlaubsort an. Dort regnet es ununterbrochen, sodass der Jeep im Matsch stecken bleibt. Aber die Hackebarts sind eben die Hackebarts. Und sie erleben trotz aller wilden Abenteuer noch tolle Ferien. Schlechtes Wetter im Urlaub? Alles kein Problem, wenn man die Reise so in Angriff nimmt wie die Hackebarts: Neugierig, abenteuerlustig und immer ein bisschen crazy!

Kennst du schon Familie Hackebart? In drei Tagen können die Hackebarts endlich umziehen. Leider erweist sich das neue Traumhaus als Bruchbude, und alle müssen helfen, damit bis zum Umzug alles fertig ist. Da entdeckt Brooklyn unter einer Stufe im Treppenhaus etwas höchst Geheimnisvolles: Wer war der merkwürdige Vorbesitzer des Hauses wirklich? Familie Hackebart beginnt zu ermitteln. Und schon geht's drunter und drüber ... So unterschiedlich Brooklyn, Zosch, Mönkemeier, Lulu und ihre Eltern auch sind: Diese Familie hält einfach zusammen.

Bei den Hackebarts ist immer was los: Papa Walter ist Hausmann und meistens alleinerziehend, denn Mama Adrijana verdient als LKW-Fahrerin das Geld und ist oft wochenlang auf dem Balkan unterwegs. Von den Kindern hat jedes eine besondere Fähigkeit: Die dreizehnjährige Brooklyn ist supervernünftig, Zosch, elf Jahre, ist Sportler und leidenschaftlicher Zocker (vor allem Brawl Stars). Lulu ist mit sechs die jüngste und hochbegabt und der achtjährige Mönkemeier lebt ausschließlich für die Kunst. Vor allem bewundert er die abstrakte Malerei des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts.

The Gaither sisters are at it again! A sequel to the Newbery Honor Book One Crazy Summer, this Coretta Scott King Award-winning novel will find a home in the hearts of readers who loved Brown Girl Dreaming and As Brave as You. After spending the summer in Oakland, California, with their mother...

No one loves horses more than Meg. She has pony books, pony toys, and even a pony rug! But Meg lives in the big city and has never been around real ponies before. Then her family moves to the country, and on her first day of school, Meg makes a new friend—a friend who lives on a horse farm!...

Pinkalicious can't wait to show off her wacky hairdo for Crazy Hair Day, but disaster strikes when Rose shows up to class with the same hairstyle. Can Pinkalicious pull together a pinkamazing look at the last minute? #1 New York Times bestselling author Victoria Kann is back with this...

Con los billetes que el hermano de tío Vez les regaló, toda la familia de Mattie se va a Australia de visita. Allí verán de muy cerca canguros y también emús. Además, disfrutan de la playa, aunque alguna vez aparezca un tiburón y suene la sirena. ¡Mattie está deseosa de poder contar todo lo vivido a sus amigos del cole!

En casa de los Butterfield están muy apretujados con mamá, papá, cinco niños y ahora el bebé Will. Mamá desea cambiarse de casa. Pero mudarse significa cambiar de colegio.... ¿Acaso se ha hecho realidad la Peor Lista de Preocupaciones de Mattie?

Alerta de preocupación! ¡El colegio de Mattie va a cerrar! Junto a otros padres, los Butterfield organizan una campaña para mantener abierto el colegio Learnwell. ¿Lograrán los Butterfield salvar el colegio?

Mi padre es artista y llama Mona Lisa a mamá, porque es muy guapa. Y se enfada con rapidez. ¡Será igualita a la abuela cuando crezca! Dontie es mi hermano mayor. Su nombre es una abreviación de Donatello. Stanika en realidad son dos personas. (¡Glups!) Me llamo Mattie. Mamá dice que cuando estoy preocupada mi cerebro se convierte en espagueti y lo enreda todo. Y con mi loca familia siempre hay algo de qué preocuparse...

Falta poco para el cumpleaños de mamá y con la ayuda de Lucinda, su mejor amiga, Mattie le prepara una sorpresa especial. Pero los espectáculos de variedades requieren una gran organización y la lista de Preocupaciones de Mattie es más larga que nunca...