Back To School
Start the year off right with these school stories from Simon & Schuster!
1.
Lost and Found
By: Andrew Clements
Cover By: Brian Selznick / Illustrated by: Mark Elliott
This edition: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publication date: May 18, 2010
Ages: 8 - 12
The Grayson twins are moving to a new town. Again. Although it's a drag to be constantly mistaken for each other, in truth, during those first days at a new school, there's nothing better than having a twin brother there with...
2.
No Talking
By: Andrew Clements
Cover By: Brian Selznick / Illustrated by: Mark Elliott
This edition: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publication date: June 23, 2009
Ages: 8 - 12
"You have the right to remain silent." However...The fifth-grade girls and the fifth-grade boys at Laketon Elementary don't get along very well. But the real problem is that these kids are loud and disorderly. That's why the...
3.
Extra Credit
By: Andrew Clements
Cover By: Brian Selznick / 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, it's just that she doesn't like doing it. And that means she's pretty much failing sixth grade. When a warning letter is sent home, Abby realizes that all her slacking off...
4.
School Bugs
An Elementary Pop-up Book by David A. Carter
By: David A. Carter
Illustrated by: David A. Carter
This edition: Novelty, 20 pages
Publication date: June 23, 2009
Ages: above 3
We're ready for school. We're on our way. We can't wait to see what we'll learn today! Who’s heading to school? The Bugs, of course! From the Spelling Bees and the Counting Bugs to the Sandwich Bug with a big bug surprise in...
5.
Return of the Homework Machine
By: Dan Gutman
Cover By: Dan Santat
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 machine --...
Other Formats: eBook
6.
Room One
A Mystery or Two
By: Andrew Clements
Cover By: Brian Selznick / 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...
7.
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....
8.
Lunch Money
By: Andrew Clements
Cover By: Brian Selznick / 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 booming...
Other Formats: Hardcover
9.
The Homework Machine
By: Dan Gutman
Cover By: Dan Santat
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...
10.
Back to School (Boxed Set)
School Story; The Report Card; A Week in the Woods
By: Andrew Clements
Illustrator (Cover): Brian Selznick
This edition: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
Publication date: May 23, 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...
11.
The Report Card
By: Andrew Clements
Cover By: Brian Selznick
This edition: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publication date: December 20, 2005
Ages: 8 - 12
SHHHHHNora 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 fed...
Other Formats: Hardcover
12.
Frindle
By: Andrew Clements
Illustrated by: Brian Selznick
This edition: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
Publication date: November 4, 1999
Ages: 8 - 12
Is Nick Allen a troublemaker?He really just likes to liven things up at school -- and he's always had plenty of great ideas. When Nick learns some interesting information about how words are created, suddenly he's got the...
