Are you looking for an entertaining way for your children to learn to read? If you have children aged 5-9 that want to learn to read then 101 Animal Jokes for Kids : Using Sight Words is for you. The author has been teaching for over 15 years and is a parent of school aged children. This book is a fully illustrated eBook, for ages 5-9. Children love this book because of the eye catching illustrations and the funny jokes. Parents and teachers have been using this book as read aloud book or as a self-read book for older children.

Sight words make up over 50% general writing and are the most frequently used words in the English language. Therefore, learning sight words is a crucial goal to learning how to read by the 3rd grades. These words can not be “sounded out”, and hence must be learned by sight. This book includes over 200 sight words. This list includes words for children in prekindergarten up to 3rd Grade.

Concepts in this book have been used since the 1940’s by teachers, parents, and counselors to teach reading skills. Illustrations are vibrant and delightful to keep children’s attention. The text is well written and delivers easy-to-digest information.

This book provides parents, teachers, and counselors with an entertaining way to teach children how to identify sight words. This book uses similar words found in PBS kids, raz kids, funbrain, and starfall books. The books includes a sight words list that can be used to make flashcards. The book contains a free gift to help your child read. This book may be free for Amazon Prime members.

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A very funny post-apocalyptic graphic novel, now a New York Times bestseller!

“Terrifyingly fun! Delivers big thrills and even bigger laughs.”–Jeff Kinney, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Diary of a Wimpy Kid
 
The zombies are disappearing. This might seem like a good thing, since zombies eat your brains, but normal human kid Jack Sullivan is suspicious. He keeps hearing an eerie shrieking noise that seems to be almost summoning the zombies—but to where, and for what (probably) foul purpose?
 
Jack, his three best friends (maybe the only people left on Earth), and their pet monster Rover need to get to the bottom of this. Along the way they encounter a lot more than they bargained for, including a giant Wormungulous, a pizza parlor monster hangout, an ancient evil who destroys worlds, and a stereo system that is totally the bomb. Can Jack figure out why the zombies are vanishing . . . before he and his friends are next?

From the Hardcover edition.

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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Pippi has no problem living without adults, but when her long-lost father reappears, she decides to sail the seas with him.

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The authors of the New York Times bestselling Awkward Family Photos franchise shine a light on the awkwardness of childhood. Warning: May cause uncontrollable laughter, snorting, and milk-spewing awkward moments for parents and kids alike.
 
Life isn’t perfect, and things don’t always go as planned. Like when you try to feed yourself and the food ends up all over your clothes. Or when you try to ride a bike and end up taking an epic spill. Or when you try to go potty and end up in the potty!
 
But laughing at ourselves makes it all a little easier, and a whole lot more entertaining. So go ahead and embrace all of life’s awkward moments. Because nobody’s perfect… but everyone’s awkward.

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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Roscoe Riley doesn’t mean to break the ruless Never Race a Ranaway Pumpkin Pumpkin Contest If Roscoe guesses the weight of a giant pumpkin, he’ll be a winner! Easy, right? But a little black cat keeps trying to cross his path! Will the bad-luck kitty ruin Roscoe’s chance to win?

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Mad Scientist Mad Libs features 21 original stories all about mad scientists! Topics include science experiments gone wrong, real life mad scientists, Frankenstein, and much much more! This makes a great Halloween–or anytime!–buy.

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When twelve-year-old McKenzie McIntyre orders a magical kit from a mysterious website, her dream of middle school greatness quickly turns into a snogbugger of a mess. To McKenzie, the kit is the perfect solution. Probably her only shot at transforming Evan Jacoby, the hunkadoodledoo of Kingsley Junior High, into her Prince Charming . . . But powerful magic comes with consequences—and it isn’t just her crush and her future popularity that’s at risk, but her mom’s trust and her best friend’s respect too.

With a mom who’s more interested in saving the planet than raising her, and an MIA, whale-chasing member of Greenpeace for a dad, McKenzie’s parents don’t seem to get her. Pile on a bad case of writer’s block globbing up her author dreams, and it’s obvious McKenzie needs just this ONE THING in her life to work. But as her expectations for The Prince Charming Starter Kit intensify, the magic spirals out of control. With its promise to “bring out the true heart of any would-be prince,” McKenzie’s determined to prove that Evan is the real deal . . . even if her best friend isn’t so sure about his true character. The kit does come with a caution: Toadies aren’t Princely; Toadies aren’t Charming; Only Princes are Princely; Heed now this warning.

Middle school life is never dull, but McKenzie is about to find out just how un-boring it can get.

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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. When Fern Goldberg arrived at his new school, he was just an average kid: near-sighted, a touch on the skinny side. Then he fell into the pool of radioactive green goo behind Bogie’s Burger Barn. Now, whenever his skin comes into contact with condiments, he transforms into a bona fide, deep-fried superhero who’s not afraid to take on villains great and small, from the class bully, to the giant, mutated French fry who threatens to crush the whole school beneath his massive, starchy feet…

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In this royal adventure, Princess Juniper learns what it means to rule a kingdom–at least for the summer.

For her thirteenth nameday all Princess Juniper wants is a country of her own. So when rumblings of unrest start in his kingdom, Juniper’s father decides to grant his daughter’s wish and sends her to a small, idyllic corner of the Hourglass Mountains until trouble blows over. Once there, Juniper discovers that ruling a small country–even just for the summer–is a bit harder than she’d expected, especially when cousin Cyril challenges her rule. Still, the most difficult part is to come. Juniper and her friends discover that her father’s kingdom is at war. The only way to stay safe is to remain in the Hourglass Mountains much longer than planned. Juniper may have her own country after all . . . but what will that mean for the kingdom of Torr?

This book is perfect for fans of Frozen and Brave, who like their princess strong and smart as well as sparkly. 

Praise for Princess Juniper of the Hourglass:

“I absolutely loved Princess Juniper of the Hourglass!  It’s fantastically delightful, delicious, and satisfying.  You’ll want to follow Juniper to her kingdom — or even better, start your own!”–Sarah Beth Durst, author of Enchanted Ivy and Ice
  
“I adored Princess Juniper! Readers will cheer as she leads and defends her hidden kingdom in this deliciously charming fantasy.”–Julie Berry, author of Secondhand Charm and The Amaranth Enchantment

“Princess Juniper proves that you can love your silk dresses and still be a hero. This is a smart, feisty kid with a thirst for experiences, and I loved watching her learn to lead. A fun and insightful coming-of-age tale.”—Ellen Booraem, author of Small Persons with Wings
 
“A gently adventurous and luxuriously detailed romp.”–Kirkus Reviews

“With elements from William Golding’s The Lord of the Flies and Paul Fleischman’s Weslandia, this story can be enjoyed by those who love princess stories and adventure tales….A rollicking tale that will please a wide range of readers.”–School Library Journal

“This…dramatic and humorous novel…involves some entertaining twists and paves the way for more lighthearted intrigue ahead.”–Publishers Weekly 

“Paquette takes young readers gently by the hand into the adult world of responsibility, danger, and the unknown. The fully developed cast of characters is engaging, and readers will cheer the conclusion and happily await Juniper’s further adventures.”–Booklist

   
Ammi-Joan Paquette Awards and Reviews:

Ghost in the House 
A Huffington Post “Best Halloween Books of 2013,” School Library Journal “Great Books for Halloween” pick; and Canadian Children’s Book Centre “Best Books for Kids & Teens” 2014 pick
 
Petey & Pru and the Hullabaloo 
Starred review, Kirkus
 
The Tiptoe Guide to Tracking Fairies 
A “Best Books for Children 2009” choice by the Association of Booksellers for Children
Featured in Scholastic: Parent & Child magazine’s “Fun Finds”
 

From the Hardcover edition.

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The beloved characters of Earl and Mooch are back in a collection of a year’s worth of color Sunday and black-and-white daily cartoons.

Enjoy the day-to-day adventures of two animal buddies, a small mutt with a big heart named Earl, and Mooch, a cat with his own way of thinking and talking (yesh!). 

Mutts explores the special bond between animals and their guardians, and the endearing friendship of Earl and Mooch. It strikes a delicate balance between joy and fun and responsible social commentary. Mutts has been recognized for its distinctive style, heartwarming humor, and compassionate advocacy for animal issues.

In this 16th chronological collection of Mutts strips, a year’s worth of color Sunday strips and black-and-white daily strips are included, along with pop-art splash pages that highlight McDonnell’s imaginative artwork and distinctive style.

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NOMINATED FOR 2013 CYBIL AWARD!

Ancient trolls have woken up and are living under suburbia!

When Colin Colbeck’s grandmother goes missing, it’s up to him to find her. Followed by a reckless little brother and his ex-best friend, Colin stumbles into an ancient city of trolls trying to catch up to the 21st century. But old grudges die hard and an out-of-date troll war is about to pick up where it left off two hundred years ago. It’s a contest of brains against brawn in this perilous adventure of friendship, courage, and bringing home the ones you love.

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FILL ‘ER UP
 
Garfield believes in living life to the fullest. No easy task for a cat with a bottomless stomach. In this latest collection of comics, the fat cat with the legendary appetite treats himself to seconds, thirds, fourths, and fifths and proves that anything worth eating is worth overeating.

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Can you imagine how complicate a pedicure for a centipede could be?
In this story, Miss Centipede wants to be colorful and lovely, she wants a pedicure. A pedicure for a centipede is a big job and Willa the Caterpillar does a wonderful job organizing the salon and giving Miss Centipede the best pedicure around.
Miss Centipedes pedicure is full of bubble baths and glitter and everyone at the salon lends a hand. This humorous and well-illustrated tale is the perfect bedtime story for young kids, with rhymes and text full of fun and adventure.
Young kids will enjoy this colorful and engaging story from beginning to end. Be prepared to laugh!

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A boy who takes his reading very seriously. A cat that is also a best friend.  The return of an arch enemy.  An epic space battle in a living room.

Jett is a normal young man.  He goes to school, has a baby sister and loves to read.  He really loves to read about space and droids.  Jett has a special relationship with his pet cat Milo, who loves to listen and live Jetts space adventures.  Jett’s world is turned upside down when his dad brings home a package.  What that package contains will change things in Jetts house.  Maybe forever.  A battle flares up.  The outcome of this battle could change Jett, Milo and Jetts family forever.  Indeed, the fate of a whole planet hangs in the balance.

This is book one of “The Jett and Milo Adventure Series” or JAMAS.  If you like Star Wars, Calvin and Hobbs, a strong family with a great story, you’ll love this series that combines all of those traits in a fast-paced, action packed series.

Buy this book to start reading about Jett and Milos exciting adventures today!

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Did you know that mosquitoes choose only the sweetest kids? So, if you get bitten every night, you must be super-sweet! But, goodness, they are so annoying, aren’t they?
In this bedtime story a young boy expresses his woes and sheer frustration at the little buzzing beasts. His mother first covers him in a stinky cream, which doesn’t deter the mozzies one bit. His Dad then takes the advice given by a store-owner and buys an electric zapping device. But the sounds from the device are just too disturbing; our boy cannot sleep! A fan might work, so his mother thinks. But, no; the persistent pests seem immune to everything… everything but Aunt Patty’s magic potion…
This funny, humorous and well-illustrated children’s ebook, tale is the perfect bedtime story for young kids. As a parent you may have considered just about everything to stop mosquitoes from bothering your children. In this story, Aunt Patty reveals the name of a super-potion that will allow your kids to sleep peacefully throughout the night. While mosquitoes may be no laughing matter, our cute story certainly is!

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Banishment from his life’s calling can’t keep a comically overconfident detective down in the latest episode by New York Times bestseller Stephan Pastis.

This book was never meant to exist. No one needs to know the details. Just know this: there’s a Merry, a Larry, a missing tooth, and a teachers’ strike that is crippling Timmy Failure’s academic future. Worst of all, Timmy is banned from detective work. It’s a conspiracy of buffoons. He recorded everything in his private notebook, but then the manuscript was stolen. If this book gets out, he will be grounded for life. Or maybe longer. And will Timmy’s mom really marry Doorman Dave?

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Bart can’t wait to Fart! And that’s not good news for the innocent people who are unlucky enough to be around when he plays his tushy tuba or drops a booty bomb!

Whether at work, on a date, visiting a public pool or just generally terrorizing the public at large, Bart takes great pride and pleasure in showing off his works of (f)art!

Butt, things soon get out of hand when Bart realizes the awesome power of his ‘poofs’ and goes to the dark side…

Will the world powers give in to Bart’s outrageous demands or will Bart follow through with his evil plan to take over the world with his ‘Thunder from down under’?
With its clever and outlandish rhyming text, this explosive story will have you and your young-uns on the edge of your (toilet) seat!

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Ten-year-old Charlie Petkus isn’t surprised to get scratchy wool underwear from Aunt Mutzi for Christmas 1932, but he is surprised that her gift package includes a diary. To his dismay, his Lithuanian-immigrant mother thinks a diary is the perfect present. “You man of family, Casimir,” she says. “You learn to write the English like good American.” Charlie wants more than anything to make Mama proud. But he’s not sure education is the way to manhood, especially since he doesn’t like school. With the Great Depression on, Charlie thinks it would be much manlier to quit the 4th grade and go to work like his friend Ray. From Christmas 1932 to Christmas 1933, Charlie finds plenty of fun and adventure in his ethnic neighborhood. He discovers that sledding on a car hood results in embarrassment and a very snowy bottom. He finds that a “dead” pheasant that isn’t quite as dead as he thought can make a big mess in a Ford Model B. He learns that if you take a job harvesting onions before school, you get your feet filthy on just the day they make you take your shoes off to be weighed and measured—but you also earn a whole dime for your work. By night, Charlie writes in his diary to make Mama proud. But by day, he watches Ray, who now dresses like a man, smokes like a man, and earns a man’s wage. Charlie wonders why his mama and sisters should live on cabbage soup and the occasional package of broken cookies while “the man of the family” sits in school writing a poem called “Spring is Here.” The decision Charlie makes next will determine the course of his life and his understanding of what it really means to be a man.

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There are sea monsters, millionaires, spies, and more in the latest volume of Carl Barks’s internationally beloved Donald Duck comics.

When Donald and the boys wind up in Old California, the rush is on ? for the gold in them thar hills! Carl Barks delivers another superb collection of outrageous hijinks, preposterous situations, bamboozlement, befuddlement, and all-around cartooning brilliance. Full color illustrations throughout

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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Hank the Cowdog and his sidekick Drover find themselves confronting a huge storm in the middle of the night.

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99 Tortuous, Tricky, Tough Tongue Twisters to keep you amused for hours. Challenge yourself and your friends to see who really is the tongue twister champion. Includes the ‘World’s Hardest Tongue Twister’, as researched by psychologists at MIT. Not only are you guaranteed fun and laughter, but tongue twisters have been proven to improve English pronunciation skills too, for both native speakers and foreign language students.

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An accident on the road. An unexpected marriage.
A slew of long-term, noisy wedding guests from Wisconsin who prefer sports to romance. A new friend who isn’t what she seems, and another one who is more than April Grace could hope for. The summer of 1987 at the Reilly home is off to a rousing, hilarious start to the further and continuing Confessions of April Grace!

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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. As Christmas approaches, Caroline Malloy continues the feud between her sisters and the Hatford brothers by making Wally Hatford be her partner for a special project at school.

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Creepy, crawly, slimy, and awesome! Welcome to the darkly detailed world of spiky-haired Lio.

A curious young scientist and comic book fan, Lio is the defender of the defenseless and the inventor of a legion of zombie bunnies. Lio is joined in his day-to-day exploits by his exasperated and sleep-deprived father, a pet snake named Frank, a squid named Ishmael, and various imaginary robots and creepy, crawly monsters. Within this humorously macabre framework of sarcasm, parody, and high jinks, sidesplitting laughter abounds—all without so much as a word.

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From the Award-Winning Children’s Author: Nate Rocks Is At It Again . . . According to Nathan Rockledge, fifth grade has plenty of perks. Oh sure, there’s more work and that know-it-all, Lisa Crane, is still around – but, there’s a lot to look forward to as well: a laser tag birthday party, baseball at recess, and even a cool Halloween dance. Of course, all of that means nothing without the biggest perk of all . . . the class trip to New York City in the spring. If Nathan’s class can raise enough money to go, that is. Give Nathan paper and a pencil and watch as his imagination turns him into Nate Rocks, hero and fifth grade super star. With adventures abound, Nate saves the day time and again. But will Nate be able to save the fifth grade trip? Join Nathan, his hilarious family, and his friends, as he rocks the school in another fun Nate Rocks adventure.

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Poor Alice should not have stolen her best friend’s lunch because the consequences are not what she expected! When she bites into a delicious red apple, tummy aches, puke, and poo ensue! Cautionary Tales for Children is a dark, but funny, series devoted to the stories of children who did not make good decisions. Each book is focused on a different type of naughtiness, from stealing, to lying, to being mean to others, and each book provides a lesson about the dire consequences that can result when you are bad.

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Perfect for the fan who can’t get enough Gumball!

This hilarious yearbook mimics an actual junior high yearbook featuring information on students, clubs, sports, etc., as well as plenty of handwritten comments by Gumball and friends! It also includes pages for readers to fill in with their own school stories and memories.

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