Best Selling Books by ANDREW CLEMENTS

Shrimpy learns that even though he may be small, he can still make a big difference to his friend, Big Al.

Knock, knock. Who''s there? Jake. Jake who? Jake Drake, Class Clown. Miss Bruce is the new student teacher in second grade, and she never smiles. Never. But when Jake cracks up the class during a spelling bee, he sees the tiniest hint of a smile at the corner of her mouth. Suddenly, Jake has a new mission in life: to be so funny that even Miss Bruce will laugh! But then things get out of hand, and Jake finds himself in big trouble. Has Jake discovered -- too late -- that not everybody loves a clown?

Adorable Allegra''s pint-sized perspectives on a world filled with wonders Inspired by the sounds of early morning -- a bird chirping, Daddy stirring oatmeal, tin clattering in a bag on board Encora''s bicycle -- Allegra has a great idea for music time at Little Blue Day Care.

This pairing of fiction and non-fiction literature features a story about a boy and his father on a desert camping trip and a mystery they uncover and a monograph about desert ecology.

Milo, who does not share his family''s fondness for peas, invents a machine to make the unpleasant vegetables disappear.

Jake''s desire to win the school science fair almost costs him his best friend. Jake Drake is excited about Despres Elementary School''s first science fair. He wants to win the grand prize: a brand-new Hyper-Cross-Functional Bluntium Twelve computer system. And he really wants to beat the third-grade know-it-alls, Marsha McCall and Kevin Young. The trouble is, to beat the know-it-alls, Jake has to become a know-it-all himself. And he may just lose more than he wins.

Jake recounts his second grade introduction to Link Baxter, SuperBully, who becomes his class project partner, with surprising results. When Jake was three years old at Miss Lulu''s Dainty Diaper Day Care Center, what did he know about bullies? Nothing. But he learned fast! Why? Because Jake was kind of smart and not a tattletale, and he had no big brother to protect him. He was a perfect bully magnet. But everything changed the year Jake was in second grade. That''s when SuperBully Link Baxter moved to town. Jake had his hands full just trying to survive, until class project time. Who did the teacher assign to be Link''s partner? You guessed it. Jake has to use all his smarts -- and his heart as well -- to turn himself from Jake Drake, Bully Magnet, to Jake Drake, Bully Buster.

The end of third grade turns into a disaster for Jake when he inadvertently becomes the teacher''s pet, and no matter how hard he tries, he can''t shake the image. Mrs. Snavin looked right past all those waving hands. She looked right at me and she smiled and said, "I think I''ll have Jake take it." Then Mrs. Snavin said, "but be sure to hurry right back, Jake, because we''re going to work on our number-line project, and you have to be my special computer helper, okay?" And I could feel every kid in the class looking at me. They weren''t saying anything. They weren''t even whispering. But right then, I heard what they were thinking anyway. They were thinking, teacher''s pet.

One Christmas Eve Santa has a secret helper who sets off in a reindeer-drawn sleigh with a huge sack of toys, just like Santa. But who is it? And will the helper do the job as well as Santa?

Dolores and the Big Fire Dolores is a very timid cat. Her owner, Kyle, keeps a light on all night so she won''t be scared. One night Dolores pokes at Kyle''s face while he is sleeping. The house is on fire! Can Dolores wake Kyle up in time?

Jake faces the challenge of cooperating with the school bully on a class project.

Twenty-second edition published in 1853. According to the Preface: In presenting this work to the public, the compilers would say, that they do not intend it as a rival of any other Hymn Book already in existence; but, if advancement in the light of other good works be allowable, as an improvement on them all. Although evidently designed in one sense for a denomination, they have also intended that it shall answer in some measure the demands of a liberal and progressive Christianity--a Christianity, under whatever name or pretension found, that would diffuse Christ''s spirit and do his works of truth and love among men.

Norman is a dog who cannot see. One day, he is at the beach. He hears a girl in the water calling for help. Can a blind dog save someone''s life?

With a key to the Oakes School in his possession Benjamin, his friend Jill, and a new friend continue to seek ways to protect the school and their town but Lyman, the janitor and a spy, has new tricks up his sleeve.

When Buster was a baby his family made a wish for him. They soon find out that Buster was all that and more.

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 award lists throughout the country. Now three of his most popular school stories are available in a handsome boxed set. A WEEK IN THE WOODS Winner of two state awards THE SCHOOL STORY California Young Readers Medal THE REPORT CARD People magazine Spring''s Best Kids'' Book Parents'' Choice Award Society of School Librarians International Honor Book

This magical tale of self-discovery set in the South Pacific charts the adventures of Mark, the most closeted of gay men. He is a hack journalist on a British tabloid local paper, aeroplane spotter and still a virgin at thirty. A chance reading of Robert Louis Stevenson gets him hooked on the South Pacific and he flies 12,000 miles to Samoa in search of his fantasies.

When Grace takes boxes of old buttons from a building her grandfather bought, she starts a fad at school that draws her closer to one friend, but further from another.

An acting troupe performs a special show for the moon when he comes down for a visit. Features split pages that can be flipped to combine different characters and costumes and die-cut pages with a moon on a string.

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Ruthie is shy to speak out loud, but has to overcome her fear when a famous author invites her to read her poem in front of a large audience.

We present a novel minimum ratio contour (MRC) algorithm, for discretely optimizing contours on the surface of triangle meshes. We compute the contour having the minimal ratio between a numerator and a denominator energy. The numerator energy measures the bending and salience (feature adaptation) of a contour, while the denominator energy measures contour length. Given an initial contour, the optimal contour within a prescribed search domain is sought. The search domain is modeled by a weighted acyclic edge graph, where nodes in the graph correspond to directed edges in the mesh. The acyclicity of this graph allows for an efficient computation of the MRC. To further improve the result, the algorithm may be run on a refined mesh to allow for smoother contours that can cut across mesh faces. Results are demonstrated for postprocessing in mesh segmentation. We also speculate on possible global optimization methods for computing a MRC.