September
Back To School
Start the year off right with these school stories from Simon & Schuster!
Troublemaker
By: Andrew Clements
Illustrated by: Mark Elliott
This edition: Hardcover, 160 pages
Publication date: July 26, 2011
Ages: 8 - 12
Once a troublemaker, always a troublemaker?There’s a folder in Principal Kelling’s office that’s as thick as a phonebook and it’s growing daily. It’s filled with the incident reports of every time...
Lost and Found
By: Andrew Clements
Illustrated by: Mark Elliott
This edition: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publication date: May 18, 2010
Ages: 8 - 12
Identical twins Ray and Jay Grayson are moving to a new town. Again. But at least they’ll have each other’s company at their new school. Except, on the first day of sixth grade, Ray stays home sick, and Jay quickly...
We the Children
(Part of Benjamin Pratt and the Keepers of the School)
By: Andrew Clements
Illustrated by: Adam Stower
This edition: Hardcover, 160 pages
Publication date: April 6, 2010
Ages: 7 - 10
Benjamin Pratt’s school is about to become the site of a new amusement park. It sounds like a dream come true! But lately, Ben has been wonder if he’s going to like an amusement park in the middle of his...
No Talking
By: Andrew Clements
Illustrated by: Mark Elliott
This edition: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publication date: June 23, 2009
Ages: 8 - 12
It’s boys vs. girls when the noisiest, most talkative, and most competitive fifth graders in history challenge one another to see who can go longer without talking. Teachers and school administrators are in an uproar,...
Extra Credit
By: Andrew Clements
Illustrated by: Mark Elliott
This edition: Hardcover, 192 pages
Publication date: June 23, 2009
Ages: 8 - 12
It isn’t that Abby Carson can’t do her schoolwork. She just doesn’t like doing it. And in February a warning letter arrives at her home. Abby will have to repeat sixth grade—unless she meets some...
Return of the Homework Machine
By: Dan Gutman
This edition: Hardcover, 176 pages
Publication date: June 2, 2009
Ages: 8 - 12
Snik, Brenton, Judy, and Kelsey haven’t stayed in the best touch since last year’s big homework-machine scandal. But they are all pulled back together again when Brenton realizes that the most powerful part of the...
What I Did on My Summer Vacation
Kids' Favorite Funny Summer Vacation Poems
By: Bruce Lansky
Edited By: Bruce Lansky / Illustrated by: Stephen Carpenter
This edition: Trade Paperback, 80 pages
Publication date: March 3, 2009
Ages: 6 - 9
Another first for Bruce Lansky: the first funny poetry book about summer vacation! It will entertain kids all summer, whether they’re away at camp, traveling cross country in a hybrid or staying home with a bookshelf...
Other Formats: eBook
Room One
A Mystery or Two
By: Andrew Clements
Illustrated by: Mark Elliott
This edition: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publication date: May 20, 2008
Ages: 8 - 12
Ted Hammond loves a good mystery, and in the spring of his fifth-grade year, he's working on a big one. How can his school in the little town of Plattsford stay open next year if there are going to be only five students? Out...
Head of the Class
Frindle; The Landry News; The Janitor's Boy
By: Andrew Clements
Illustrated by: Brian Selznick
This edition: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publication date: October 2, 2007
Ages: 8 - 12
Andrew Clements has been hailed by the New York Times as "a proven master at depicting the quirky details of grade school life." His books have won countless state awards and have appeared on New York Times bestseller lists....
Jake Drake, Class Clown
(Part of Jake Drake)
By: Andrew Clements
Illustrated by: Dolores Avendaño
This edition: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
Publication date: September 11, 2007
Ages: 7 - 10
Knock, knock. Who's there? Jake. Jake who? Jake Drake, Class Clown. Miss Bruce is the new student teacher in second grade, and she never smiles. Never. But when Jake cracks up the class during a spelling bee, he sees the...
Jake Drake, Teacher's Pet
(Part of Jake Drake)
By: Andrew Clements
Illustrated by: Dolores Avendaño
This edition: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
Publication date: July 24, 2007
Ages: 7 - 10
Mrs. Snavin looked right past all those waving hands. She looked right at me and she smiled and said, "I think I'll have Jake take it." Then Mrs. Snavin said, "but be sure to hurry right back, Jake, because we're going to work...
Other Formats: eBook
Lunch Money
By: Andrew Clements
Illustrated by: Brian Selznick
This edition: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publication date: June 26, 2007
Ages: 8 - 12
MEET GREG KENTON, BILLIONAIRE IN THE MAKING. Greg Kenton has two obsessions -- making money and his long-standing competition with his annoying neighbor, Maura Shaw. So when Greg discovers that Maura is cutting into his...
The Homework Machine
By: Dan Gutman
This edition: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publication date: June 26, 2007
Ages: 8 - 12
Doing homework becomes a thing of the past! Meet the D Squad, a foursome of fifth graders at the Grand Canyon School made up of a geek, a class clown, a teacher's pet, and a slacker. They are bound together by one very big...
Jake Drake, Know-It-All
(Part of Jake Drake)
By: Andrew Clements
Illustrated by: Dolores Avendaño
This edition: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
Publication date: June 26, 2007
Ages: 7 - 10
MEET JAKE DRAKE, KNOW-IT-ALL Jake Drake is excited about Despres Elementary School's first science fair. He wants to win the grand prize: a brand-new Hyper-Cross-Functional Bluntium Twelve computer system. And he really...
Other Formats: eBook
Jake Drake, Bully Buster
(Part of Jake Drake)
By: Andrew Clements
Illustrated by: Amanda Harvey
This edition: Trade Paperback, 80 pages
Publication date: June 26, 2007
Ages: 7 - 10
MEET JAKE DRAKE, BULLY BUSTER. When Jake was three years old at Miss Lulu's Dainty Diaper Day Care Center, what did he know about bullies? Nothing. But he learned fast! Why? Because Jake was kind of smart and not a...
Amelia's School Survival Guide
(Part of Amelia)
By: Marissa Moss
Illustrated by: Marissa Moss
This edition: Paper Over Board, 64 pages
Publication date: July 1, 2006
Ages: 7 - 10
School can be hazardous to your health, but not when you have Amelia's tips for surviving homework, teachers,and even cafeteria food!
Back to School (Boxed Set)
School Story; The Report Card; A Week in the Woods
By: Andrew Clements
This edition: Boxed Set Trade Paperback, 512 pages
Publication date: June 1, 2006
Ages: 8 - 12
Andrew Clements is the undisputed master of the school story. His kid-friendly humor and keen and empathetic understanding of middle-grade life and classroom dynamics have propelled his books onto both bestseller and state...
The Report Card
By: Andrew Clements
This edition: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publication date: January 1, 2006
Ages: 8 - 12
SHHHHH Nora Rose Rowley is a genius, but don't tell anyone. She's managed to make it to the fifth grade without anyone figuring out that she's not just an ordinary kid, and she wants to keep it that way. But then Nora gets...
The School Story
By: Andrew Clements
Illustrated by: Brian Selznick
This edition: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publication date: August 1, 2002
Ages: 8 - 12
Natalie's best friend, Zoe, is sure that the novel Natalie's written is good enough to be published. But how can a twelve-year-old girl publish a book? Natalie's mother is an editor for a big children's publisher, but Natalie...
Jake Drake, Class Clown
(Part of Jake Drake)
By: Andrew Clements
Illustrated by: Dolores Avendaño
This edition: Hardcover, 80 pages
Publication date: February 1, 2002
Ages: 7 - 10
Meet Jake Drake. He's ten years old and he already has a full-time job. Because that's how he treats school. Like it's a job. And his teachers are his bosses. Up until now -- fourth grade -- Jake has lucked out in the boss...
The Janitor's Boy
By: Andrew Clements
Illustrated by: Brian Selznick
This edition: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publication date: September 1, 2001
Ages: 8 - 12
IT WAS THE PERFECT CRIME Unfortunately, it also led to the perfect punishment. When Jack Rankin gets busted for defacing a school desk with a huge wad of disgusting, watermelon bubble gum, the principal sentences him to three...
Jake Drake, Bully Buster
(Part of Jake Drake)
By: Andrew Clements
Illustrated by: Amanda Harvey
This edition: Hardcover, 80 pages
Publication date: April 1, 2001
Ages: 7 - 10
Meet Jake Drake. He's not the toughest kid in fourth grade or the fastest kid or the funniest. But he's got ideas -- big ideas, and boy, does he have stories to tell about what really goes on in school. Like bullies, for...
The Janitor's Boy
By: Andrew Clements
Illustrated by: Brian Selznick
This edition: Hardcover, 144 pages
Publication date: May 1, 2000
Ages: 8 - 12
Ordinarily, no one would have imagined that Jack Rankin would vandalize a desk. But this was not an ordinary school year for Jack.... When Jack Rankin learns that he is going to spend the fifth grade in the old high school --...
