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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
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 Clayton Hensley broke the rules. There’s...
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...
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
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 consequently, Abby will have to repeat sixth grade—unless she meets some specific conditions, including taking on an...
School Bugs
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...
Return of the Homework Machine By: Dan Gutman
This edition: Hardcover, 176 pages
Publication date: June 2, 2009
Ages: 8 - 12
Brenton, Snik, Judy, and Kelsey are all back for another year of school and another mystery. When they discover that the superchip that made The Homework Machine possible has fallen into the wrong hands, they are determined to...
Other Formats: eBook, Trade Paperback
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
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....
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...
Other Formats: eBook, Hardcover
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...
Other Formats: eBook, Hardcover
Back to School (Boxed Set)
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: 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...
The Report Card By: Andrew Clements
This edition: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publication date: December 20, 2005
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...
Other Formats: eBook, Hardcover
Frindle
Frindle By: Andrew Clements
Illustrated by: Brian Selznick
This edition: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
Publication date: February 1, 1998
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...

Freshman Reading/First Year Experience

Suggested titles for college common book programs as part of the Freshman First Year Experience

Copper Sun By: Sharon M. Draper
This edition: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publication date: January 1, 2008
Ages: above 14
M. Sindy Felin's National Book Award finalist is in paperback for the first time. Karina has plenty to worry about on the last day of seventh grade: finding three Ds and a C on her report card again, getting laughed at by...
Other Formats: Hardcover