New Releases by MONICA KULLING

There’s a new horse on the farm! He was just born yesterday, but he already weighs 100 pounds and can stand all by himself. Kids will love following this little colt through his first two years of life in this very young nonfiction Pictureback that’s simple and fun enough to be read as a story. Young horse enthusiasts will especially appreciate the horse vocabulary and care information.

IT''S 1876 AND THE whole country is celebrating the 100th birthday of the United States. The biggest party is in Philadelphia at the World''s Fair, where the latest and greatest inventions are on display for all to see. Alexander Graham Bell is headed to the fair to demonstrate his invention - a talking machine he calls the telephone. But will anyone come to see him at the world''s most important science fair? And more importantly, will his machine work? This Step 3 reader celebrates the resilient, quirky spirit of inventors.

Provides facts about bears, from the grizzly and polar bear to more exotic species like the sloth bear and the spectacled bear.

What happens when a lonely little Hawaiian girl adopts a pet that is actually an experiment-gone-wrong from an alien planet? Join the fun with the ever-lovable Lilo and Stitch in this captivating Step 1 Step into Reading book!

Describes the events of the 1914 Shackleton Antarctic expedition when, after being trapped in a frozen sea for nine months, their ship, Endurance, was finally crushed, forcing Shackleton and his men to make a very long and perilous journey across ice and stormy seas to reach inhabited land.

Describes the physical characteristics, hunting and feeding behavior, habitat, life cycle, methods of communication, and endangered status of alligators.

Describes the physical characteristics, habitat, family life, and eating habits of both African and Asian elephants.

Queen Amidala''s handmaidens are trained to protect her if she is in danger. But Queen Amidala wants to learn to defend herself. She joins the training disguised as Padmé so her handmaidens won''t worry. Can she handle the training? Read this colorful fully-illustrated beginner reader and find out!

Edgar Badger and his best friend Duncan Bear have a squabble when they go on a fishing trip.

Because he''s sad and can''t face the end of summer, Edgar Badger escapes by going to bed and staying there until his friends come around to cheer him up.

Profiles the first wife of a president to have a public life and career of her own, devoted to helping others and working for peace.

Scotland, 1815. Fettes, a young medical student, is learning more than he ever wanted to know about corpses. He is shocked to realize that the corpses they are using in class are not donated, but rather stolen from fresh graves--and now he must get himself a new one. Fettes thinks he''s up to this terrifying task, but he can''t anticipate what will happen that night--or the body that will haunt him for the rest of his life. Adapted from the short story by Robert Louis Stevenson, this easy-to-read, edge-of-your-seat version will grab reluctant readers who expect a good scare!

In 1815 in Scotland, having realized that the corpses he and his peers examine in anatomy class are stolen from fresh graves, a young medical student finds that he must procure the next specimen.

Even though their father is away at war and the family does not have much money, the four March sisters manage to have a wonderful Christmas.

Edgar Badger finds a way to keep his neighbors happy even though they complain about the ever-growing pile of junk in his backyard.

"Fairy Tale: A True Story" tells the tale of two little girls who set out to prove the existence of fairies. Starring Peter O''Toole as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Harvey Keitel as Harry Houdini, "Fairy Tale: A True Story" is sure to become a family favorite.

Examines the mysterious disappearance of the world-famous woman pilot who was lost over the Pacific Ocean while on an historic round-the-world flight in 1937.

Join Tom Sawyer''s wild adventures along the banks of the Mississippi River in this exciting addition to the Step into Classics line. Tom and his best friend, Huck Finn, share exciting make-believe escapades as treasure hunters, swashbuckling pirates, and soldiers in battle. They also unwittingly become real-life witnesses to a terrible crime!

Stepping Stone Classics series.