Rica Baptista: Llamas, Iguanas, and My Very Best Friend

Rica Baptista: Llamas, Iguanas, and My Very Best FriendBy: Janet Costa Bates Illustrator: Gladys Jose Series: Rica Baptista Ricas very best friend is moving away. How can she convince her parents to let her get a pet so she wont be lonely? Friendship and family shine in this engaging young chapter book. Rica Baptista wantsno, needsa pet. A llama, a kinkajou, or maybe an iguana? She even has a name picked out: Frederica, her own name, after her Cape Verdean great great grandfather. But Ricas parents say no

Conceived as part of a novel on a grand scale

Invited to the White House by Candle

His rags to riches story has never been told as dramatically and vividly as in Nasaw's new biography

By: Anne Tyler     NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Clock Dance comes the story of four generations unfolding in and around the lovingly worn house that has always been the Whitshank family's anchor

the world-famous footballer and campaigner against child hunger

In a land trapped by fate

and a few tugs at the heartstrings

AUTHORS INCLUDE: Schuyler Bailar

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but then he disappeared for months…and he’s not about to tell her why

They ask all the other animals they come across but for some reason no one will hug them

This spellbinding book takes readers on a journey through the Hogwarts curriculum