Rebecca Donnelly

Cats fill./ Cats spill./ Cats flow downhill.// Cats tip./ Cats drip./ Cats grip, snip, rip.// Cats are a liquid/ Except when they're not. Inspired by an Ig Nobel Prize-winning investigation of how cats behave like liquids, this book introduces some of the physical properties of liquids-they adapt to fit a container, they flow like fluids-and is just pure fun. Like its inspiration, it makes you laugh, then think. Back matter includes a brief introduction...

"In Daisy Flies with a Dragon, beginning readers learn about the phonics concept of vowel sounds and long and short vowels in an exciting, fantastical setting. Follow along as Daisy flies through the sky with a dragon, all while incorporating various vowel sounds, in this fun decodable book. Vibrant illustrations and carefully leveled text will engage young readers in a supportive educational fiction reading experience. Children can learn more about...

Seventh-grader Sidney Camazzola plans to be the director of the Juicebox Theater one day, but for now, he has a great idea--extortion--for keeping the theater open. ACT 1: The Juicebox Theatre is about ready for the recycling bin. ACT 2: Sidney and Folly consider a crime. [You have to read it to see if we commit a crime - that's called suspense.] ACT 3: Sidney and Folly save the Juicebox Children's Theatre! [It's not giving anything away to tell...

"Follow along as Dot encounters a magical pot and uses it to produce plenty of food, all while incorporating various word families and rhymes, in this decodable book. Includes supplementary back matter and picture glossary"--

Survival of the Fittest: the game show where animal contestants pitch the latest and greatest in scientific innovation to a panel of shark judges! Animals of all sizes and skills compete to see who can come up with the most useful, most creative, most brilliant design for a product based on something that exists in the natural world. Today's theme is: engineering.

"In The Knight and the Gnome, beginning readers learn about the phonics concept of irregularly spelled words in an exciting, fantastical setting. Follow along as the knight and the gnome go on a quest to collect jewels for the queen, all while incorporating various irregularly spelled words, in this fun decodable book. Vibrant illustrations and carefully leveled text will engage young readers in a supportive educational fiction reading experience....

He's a boy. He's a superhero. He's ... spaghetti? Fred loves spaghetti. So when Fred's inventor mom creates a machine that can turn anything into spaghetti (fast!), he thinks it'll be nothing but noodles from here on out. Little does Fred know just how right he is. After a misstep with the spaghetti machine, Fred finds himself transformed--into Super Spaghetti! But is this spaghetti-hungry boy-turned superhero made of the right stuff to save his town?--...

"This narrative middle-grade nonfiction from Rebecca Donnelly dives into the scientific and cultural history of the waste humans produce, examining why we make so much trash, why we're so bad at handling it, and how we can stop it (that is, us) from ruining the planet"--