Books with author Jamie White

When Martha the talking dog learns that her person Helen’s extended family is coming for Thanksgiving, she decides to invite her own long-lost mother and siblings...if she can find them! Each dog was adopted separately and Martha has no idea where they ended up, but with the help of her friend Kazuo at the shelter, she sets out to locate them all.By Thanksgiving Day there is only one special guest unaccounted for—Martha's mother! Can Martha and her friends find her in time for the family reunion?This chapter book based on the popular TV show Martha Speaks includes a glossary and fun, festive activities!

Martha has lost her collar and ended up at the local animal shelter. It falls to her to organize a pound break for all her new doggy friends but she soon discovers freedom isn't much without a family. When Martha's owner finally comes to take her home, she realizes that she can't leave her shelter friends behind. Martha, Helen, and her friends cook up a spectacular plan--Wagstaff's first Top Dog Show--to find families for all of the pound pooches!The book will include a cast of characters introduction and two pages of word-fun activities.

This jam-packed comic book features six amazing adventures based on the popular PBS TV seriesMartha Speaks! Whether she's battling robot dogs, sniffing out the culprits in a mysterious meat heist, or getting zapped into Helen's computer, there's never a dull moment with Martha the talking dog around. And with 112 pages of full-color, full-throttle action, this graphic novel has enough canine capers and doggie derring-do to satisfy Martha's hungriest fans.For more Martha antics, visit www.marthathetalkingdog.com andwww.pbskids.org/martha.

Martha’s family and Skits are going out west on vacation, and Martha doesn’t want to be left behind. But that cargo hold where dogs have to travel sounds scary. Martha has to prove that she’s no scaredydog if she wants to go on the trip. After they arrive, Martha is so excited to go on a cattle drive through Montana. But Cookie the cowhand isn’t so sure that Martha is fit for the trip after she causes a stampede. Can Martha show Cookie that she has what it takes to be at home on the range?Includes a glossary, instructions on creating your own travel journal, and a fun western word activity.

Hypothesis: "It’s easier being a dog than being a human." This seems pretty safe to say, but the notion is put to the test in this funny, action-packed, full-color chapter book based on the PBS showMartha Speaks. When Carolina is turned into a dog, she finds out how irresistible mud, meat, and squirrels can be and ends up at the shelter! Then T.D. volunteers to live as a dog for a day. Is it as easy at it looks? By the end, readers will not only have had a good laugh, they’ll know the difference between empathy and sympathy, manners and mannerisms, and more. A glossary and some fun activities round out this perspective-tweaking chapter book.

This chapter book based on PBS's popular TV show Martha Speaks features two back-to-school stories, plus a glossary and activities. In the first story, T. D. adds Martha's name to the substitute teacher list at Wagstaff Elementary, but not even he expects a talking dog to actually fill in for Mrs. Clusky. Never one to ignore the call of duty, Martha takes the class under her wing—er, paw—but Helen's not sure their friendship can survive Martha's strict teaching style. In the second story, Alice is inagua caliente when she is assigned an oral report in Spanish class. She can't speak a word. But with the help of some Mexican alphabet soup made by Tio Jorge, Martha can! Is it cheating if a Spanish-speaking dog helps you with your homework?Visit www.marthathetalkingdog.com andwww.pbskids.org/martha.

Nothing turns a backyard camp-out from yawn to "Yowza!" like a few scary stories. When their repertoire of shadow puppets is exhausted, Martha (the talking dog from PBS’s hit TV showMartha Speaks)and her friends decide to share some science-fiction stories—the creepier the better! Martha tells one about aliens from Venus who eat frozen yogurt with their ears, T.D. scares everyone with malevolent alien cat people, Helen tells "The Telltale Artichoke Heart" about a disturbing tin can ("THUMP. THUMP. THUMP"), and Alice tells "Night of the Phantom Scarecrow." A few Campfire Story Starters will have aspiring storytellers off and running!

Three chapter books about Martha the talking dog in one full-color, fully illustrated paperback! FeaturesMartha on the Case, in which Martha sniffs out the evidence needed to clear her name in a cake-stealing case and catches some would-be jewelry thieves with help from her canine friends;Detective Dog, in which Martha thwarts the smuggling of dangerously infested rutabagas into Wagstaff City and helps Helen sniff out the thief's identity after a rash of robberies; andSecret Agent Dog, in which Martha—a.k.a. agent K9-002—is on a top-secret mission to expose the criminals who try to steal Granny Flo’s soup formula. Includes games, activities, and glossaries of all the new vocabulary introduced in the stories.

When Carolina starts Carolina's Town Crier, a newspaper with a kids' (and dogs')-eye view of the goings-on in Wagstaff City, the whole gang wants to be reporters! Read two stories about the ins and outs of news reporting in this book: First, Martha and Skits dig up a BIG scoop, but nobody believes them! Next, Martha learns the difference between gossip and news as she hones her reporting skills. Based on the popular PBS showMartha Speaks, this chapter book features a glossary of new words and activities to help rookie reports start their own newspaper. Visitwww.pbskids.org/marthaspeaks to play the "Town Crier" game and print your own newspaper!