Most Popular Books by Ellen Weiss

This beautifully written and abundantly illustrated study of Wesleyan Grove, the Martha''s Vineyard camp meeting, reveals how the values inherent in this campground community--a physical environment of psychic dislocation, social density, and nature immersion--are among the sources of the American urge to live in the suburbs.

With each object identified with bright, bold labels, preschools are introduced to 150 new words. 75,000.

Bean the rabbit scrapes his knee. Although he can''t make it go away, he can take care of his boo-boo until it heals.

Hitty, a wooden doll that travels from girl to girl, becomes the valued possession of an Italian girl who emigrates with her family to New York City in 1908.

Big Bird, Ernie, and Bert visit all the animals at the zoo trying to find Mr. Snuffle-upagus'' friend.

Buddy, who was mistakenly brought to the North Pole one Christmas and raised by elves, travels to New York City to find his biological father.

While Lisa is keeping a chimp at her house, she discovers that he knows sign language and she and her friends hope to find a way to keep him from being taken to live at the zoo.

Anna wants to take her lucky penny to camp on the first day because she is feeling a little afraid.

Abby helps rescue an abandoned miniature horse, but has to find a home for her new friend before her dad finds out.

This series of books has been especially created to teach preschool childen basic concepts and to help them discover and understand the excitng world around them. This book is about visiting the doctor for a check up.

When Mickey Mouse opens his own detective agency, his first case is a big one: Father Time has lost his special Millennium hourglass. Without it, no one can start the new millennium. Mickey''s hot on the trail of the missing hourglass and helps a few of his friends find their missing items, too. Of course, when the hourglass is finally found, Mickey has a big Millennium celebration with Minnie, Donald, Goofy, and all of his friends. Children will delight in searching out the hidden objects in this playful young visual mystery.

R2D2 and 3CPO find a new master and adventure with a lost prince in dangerous mines.

A group of friends look for and help animals in distress. 9-12 yrs.

Horribly hideous Shrek leaves home and terrifies everyone he encounters in his search for his equally ugly bride.

Build young readers'' vocabulary knowledge with these exciting, new nonfiction readers! This series introduces young, inquisitive readers to a broad range of science and social studies topics while building and strengthening their content-area vocabulary.

Kermit, Miss Piggy, and the other Muppets seek a little fame and $38.47 worth of fortune after the Alpha Disposal Units destroy their theater.

The war was half a world away. But it nearly tore the United States apart. Over half a million U.S. soldiers were sent to fight in Vietnam. Vietnam was undergoing a long civil war. The North was fighting the South. Did Americans belong there? Lots of people had answers. But before you decide, consider what the people who were there had to say. They experienced the war up close and personal. Through their letters and memories, you will, too.

Life cycles are a fascinating and integral part of every science curriculum. These titles are a great introduction to the wonder of how things grow. Beautiful, full-colour photographs and illustrations demonstrate the step-by-step process of a variety of plant growths, supported with an introduction to basic botany terms.

Get a whiff of this! A secret, coded message leads the ClueFinders - Joni, Owen, Santiago, and Leslie, aided by their trusty computer, LapTrap - to the buggiest, sneeziest, smelliest island on Earth. Joni''s Uncle Horace has vanished there. Can the ClueFinders solve Microsneezia''s major mystery and save Uncle Horace?

The discovery of the long-lost diary of Marco Polo takes intrepid archaeologist Indiana Jones and the reader to Mongolia''s perilous Gobi Desert to search for the treasure of Genghis Khan.