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As she sits watching a seemingly perfect family and a handsome lifeguard on the beach, a lonely, troubled girl projects herself into the fantasy lives she has created for them.

This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line called Branches, which is aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and stamina. Branches books help readers grow! In the second book in the series, Sam Graves's friend Lucy disappears into her locker! Sam and his friend Antonio follow a trail of clues that leads them through the locker and deep inside the school. Will they find Lucy? Will they learn why the school is ALIVE? Sam and Antonio must rescue ...

Follows two children as their family adopts a leopard gecko, offering information on terrariums, handling, diet, moulting, breeding, and other matters necessary to making a good home for a gecko.

A Spanish language retelling of the familiar folktale of Goldilocks and the Three Bears follows Goldilocks as she stumbles on to an empty cabin in the woods and makes herself at home, until the bear family, returning home, find her asleep in Baby Bear's bed.