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The Kansas Collection

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Enjoy the very best first chapter book fiction in Ready-for-Chapters books from Aladdin Paperbacks.

• Jake Drake, Bully Buster
  by Andrew Clements
  
• Annabel the Actress Starring in Gorilla My Dreams
  by Ellen Conford
  
• The Bears on Hemlock Mountain
  by Alice Dalgliesh
  
• The Courage of Sarah Noble
  by Alice Dalgliesh
  
• The Girl with 500 Middle Names
  by Margaret Peterson Haddix
  
• The Werewolf Club
  #1 The Magic Pretzel
  by Daniel Pinkwater
  
• The Werewolf Club
  #2 The Lunchroom of Doom
  by Daniel Pinkwater
  
• The Werewolf Club
  #3 The Werewolf Club Meets Dorkula
  by Daniel Pinkwater
  
• The Cobble Street Cousins
  #1 In Aunt Lucy's Kitchen
  by Cynthia Rylant
  
• The Cobble Street Cousins
  #2 A Little Shopping
  by Cynthia Rylant
  
• The Cobble Street Cousins
  #3 Special Gifts
  by Cynthia Rylant
  
• Third-Grade Detectives
  #1 The Clue of the Left-Handed Envelope
  by George Edward Stanley
  
• Third-Grade Detectives
  #2 The Puzzle of the Pretty Pink Handkerchief
  by George Edward Stanley
  
• Third-Grade Detectives
  #3 The Mystery of the Hairy Tomatoes
  by George Edward Stanley
  

Aladdin Paperbacks

Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing ·
www.SimonSaysKids.com

PRAIRIE SKIES
 

Acclaimed author DEBORAH HOPKINSON follows a Massachusetts family's first dramatic year as pioneers in “Bleeding Kansas” in the period leading up to the Civil War.

PIONEER SUMMER

0-689-84349-6 (paperback)

“Rolls at a promising clip.”

—
Publishers Weekly

“[An] engaging saga … [a] superb story.”

—
Kirkus Reviews

CABIN IN THE SNOW

0-689-84351-8 (paperback)

“Once again, Hopkinson tells a good story, steeped in rich history and research, and leaves her young readers satisfied, yet ready to know more.”

—
Kirkus Reviews

OUR KANSAS HOME

0-689-843534 (paperback)

Visit Deborah Hopkinson's Web site at
www.deborahhopkinson.com

ALADDIN PAPERBACKS
Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
www.SimonSaysKids.com

DEBORAH HOPKINSON
is the author of many acclaimed picture books, including
A Band of Angels, Fanny in the Kitchen,
and
Under the Quilt of Night,
a sequel to her award-winning
Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt.
She lives with her husband and two children in Walla Walla Washington.