Most Popular Books by Lori Haskins Houran

After an exciting show-and-tell day when Miss Plum shows the class her sparkly new engagement ring, Flat Stanley is on the case when the ring goes missing -- Publisher.

A charming sports story from Jeff Brown''s Flat Stanley for Egmont''s Blue Banana series. When Stanley Lambchop joins the rounders team, he discovers that being flat can help him play. But not everyone thinks flat players should be allowed. You can''t change who you are, though, as Stanley soon discovers . . . Blue bananas are chapter books for children learning to read, suitable for NC Level 2 readers. They are carefully designed educational books for children, supporting their understanding of how to read and develop vocabulary. Blue bananas uses speech bubbles to aid understanding of dialogue and the text encourages children to explore the feelings of characters.

A talkative fox wears out his welcome with the other animals until he meets sloth.

See the big jobs that these busy tractors do each day.

Fiction: Spend a day at sea tracking sharks--with the help of a robot!Join a team of marine biologists as they head out in their boat to study mako sharks. Simple, entertaining text and bright, accurate illustrations bring science and technology to life, and additional pages of facts about sharks follow the story. This book is bound to make a splash with young minds! Nonfiction: Did you know that great white sharks are actually gray? This helps them hide on the sea floor. Discover these and other interesting facts in Great White Shark. .

Max the duck has a giant case of spring fever, so when Irene goes out for the day and leaves Max in charge, things get a little ... quacky.

A nonfiction ''biography'' of glasses, an everyday object that has become ubiquitous, starting with the discovery of the magnifying properties of glass through the development of the eye chart, plastic lenses, and contact lenses

Fiction: Blast off into the sky and visit the International Space Station! A lively, rhythmical story and detailed illustrations take readers on a trip to the ISS, where astronauts sleep zipped up and walk in space. Nonfiction: Did you know that people today use large rockets to launch things into space? Yuri Gagarin was the first person in space. Discover these and other interesting facts in Travel in Space.

Two adventurous mice go on a worldwide trip after they stop away on a cargo ship.

Baby animals and their grown-ups cuddle in their dens, nests, and other dwellings.

Stanley and his brother Arthur have won a trip to visit the local fire station. But it''s not quite as exciting as they''d hoped. Where is the sliding down the pole? Where are the sirens and flashing lights? Then, all of a sudden, there''s a Code Nine call, and the whole Lambchop family are whizzing off to the rescue in a fire engine.