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

When an older couple tells Naomi and the rest of the club about a mean snake at a nearby pond, Naomi dismisses their concerns. After all, a pond is a natural place, and snakes aren’t mean—they’re just snakes.

Emma is excited about Izzie's birthday party. But she's also nervous. Is her dress too fancy? Will she know anyone else at the party? Did she buy the right gift? Will Emma's worries ruin her chance to have fun?

When Rex starts causing trouble at Dr. Blake's vet clinic, Kyle knows something has to change. He decides to take Rex to the dog park for training, where he makes a new friend with a problem pup of his own. Can the two boys work together to teach their dogs some manners before it's too late?

Celebrate a birthday and some winter fun with three laugh-out-loud stories featuring unlikely friends Earl & Worm—the stars of an irresistible early reader series from Geisel Award-winning author Greg Pizzoli. It's Earl's birthday! Worm is excited to celebrate with her lifelong friend. But...

The first in a three-book outer space adventure series for young readers from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Big Little Lies! Nicola Berry's life is turned upside down the day a man from another planet comes to Earth on a strange mission. He's looking for somebody to travel back to...

Autistic seventh-grader Maggie Weir loves spacecraft, but aerospace engineering isn’t the only thing that gives her butterflies: she’s got a secret crush on an eighth grader—the amazing, baton-twirling Tatum Jones. And they’ve just teamed up for an engineering contest! It might be the perfect chance for Maggie to tell Tatum how she feels, except …

The Sisters Grimm books are hits with young readers and critics. In their third outing, Sabrina and Daphne confront the menace behind the family's troubles, Little Red Riding Hood. After meeting their recently returned uncle Jake, the girls embark on a harrowing quest to reconstruct the mythical vorpal blade, the only weapon capable of killing Red's pet and bodyguard, the dreaded Jabberwocky.

Jess, Lily and little kitten Amelia Sparklepaw are getting ready to celebrate Goldie's birthday – but wicked witch Grizelda has other plans!

In The Playground Problem, Jack's friend Billie is away, so Jack hangs out with Alex instead. They have heaps of fun together! But what will happen when Billie comes back?

What if your parents agreed to disagree? Eight-and-a-half years ago, when their beautiful baby girl was born, Mr. and Mrs. Puddle couldn’t agree on what to name her. So Mrs. Puddle calls her daughter Emily and Mr. Puddle calls her Ferdinanda. And everyone else? They call her Baby. Having...

Alfie the Doorstep Cat – star of the smash-hit Sunday Times bestseller – is back in brand new ALFIE story for a younger readership. Alfie is everyone’s favourite cat. A big ball of grey fur who changes the lives of every family he meets. Alfie is firm friends with the Clover family –...

In his fiction debut--and the start of a new series--celebrated illustrator K.G. Campbell brings a touch of Tim Burton to this singularly strange and wonderful story about a lonely boy whose life is about to get a whole lot more complicated when a zombie follows him home. August DuPont has spent...

Callie and Valeria make a lucky escape with the bracelet, but now they're on the run and they're being hunted by the mysterious Frankie Fatfingers. They're safe in their bed and breakfast for now... but Frankie's men are looking for them all over Blackpool. It's only a matter of time before they get caught!

Will trägt die falschen Schuhe – das weiß er selbst, aber wie soll er es ändern? Es sind ja nicht nur die Schuhe: Auch seine Jacke und sein Haarschnitt sind falsch, er kann die Schulmaterialien nicht kaufen, und oft findet er nicht einmal etwas zu essen, wenn er nach Hause kommt. Seine Eltern haben ihre eigenen Sorgen, und Will versucht alles, um in der Schule so wenig wie möglich aufzufallen. Was ihm nicht immer gelingt. In seiner Verzweiflung gerät er kurzzeitig sogar auf die schiefe Bahn.

From Ashima Shiraishi, one of the world's youngest and most skilled climbers, comes a true story of strength and perseverance--in rock climbing and in life. To a rock climber, a boulder is called a "problem," and you solve it by climbing to the top. There are twists and turns, falls and scrapes...

What's worse than discovering you have a zombie problem? Imagine acquiring four more undead tag-alongs. . . . From the acclaimed illustrator of Flora & Ulysses comes the second book in the Zombie Problems trilogy, heralded as "reminiscent of Roald Dahl in uniting the macabre with realism." When...

Newbery Medalist Tae Keller continues the fantasy adventures of Mihi Whan Park and her friends as they revisit the fairy tale realm to solve a giant problem. After just barely surviving their last trip to the Rainbow Realm, Mihi Whan Park and her friends Reese and Savannah know that stepping...

The third show-stopping adventure set in the wonderful world of the PEPPER twins The Pepper twins Esme and Monty are spending the summer with their Uncle Potty – a professional magician – and summers with Potty are rarely dull… Join the irrepressible Pepper twins in another colourful...

A strange old theatre at the end of the pier is the setting for the next fantastic adventure full of magic and mayhem with unbeatable double act, Esme & Monty Pepper, and their madcap Uncle Potty… The Pepper twins, Esmé and Monty and their uncle Potty have been summoned to the Sea Spray...

The first book about ten-year-old FRANKIE FOSTER – the girl who wants to help, but ends up causing chaos! Frankie Foster loves fixing people's problems. Her help might not always be welcome – and she might cause the odd total disaster – but Frankie always fixes things. Eventually! It all...