Books with author Joanna Cole

Get ready for some serious science fun when Ms. Frizzle takes the kids on exciting field trips! These Magic School Bus Science Chapter Books are especially enjoyed by 2nd and 3rd graders. Books include: #1, The Truth about Bats; #2, The Search for the Missing Bones; #3, The Wild Whale Watch; #4, Space Explorers; #5, Twister Trouble; #6, The Giant Germ; #7, The Great Shark Escape; #8, Penguin Puzzle; #10, Expedition Down Under; #11, Insect Invaders; #12, Amazing Magnetism; #13, Polar Bear Patrol. Bonus booklet: Field Trip Facts: Notes from Ms. Frizzle's Kids, with excerpts from books 1-20.

In this coming-of-age novel, a headstrong girl persists against expectations, following her dream in nineteenth century Yosemite.Florence "Floy" Hutchings is the daughter of a famous father, and while the extra attention that brings is not unwelcome, all she really wants is to be herself. However, in 1876 being clever, confident, and bold is not expected of girls on the cusp of turning twelve. Stuck in a stuffy classroom in crowded San Francisco, Floy longs to return to the majestic mountain valley where she was born and where she has always felt free: Yosemite!Upon returning to her beloved valley, Floy finds that it is changing in confusing ways: the intimate paradise she once knew is opening to more visitors and to troubling attitudes about her indigenous friends and about what girls should and should not do. Yet, against this backdrop of change, Floy pursues her dream of climbing the indomitable Half Dome.Steeped in the rich atmosphere of old Yosemite and based on real people and true events,Call Me Floy is about a girl who follows her dream up the steepest path imaginable.

In Magic School Bus chapter book #9, Ms Frizzle and the gang find out they must become Dinosaur Detectives at the Museum of Natural History. Ms Frizzles and the gang just want to study dinosaurs at the Museum of Natural History. But by mistake, they end up traveling through time to the actual Mesozoic era and come face to face with real meat-eaters! Yikes! They learn about the differences between all kinds of dinosaurs and the different eras these creatures roamed to earth. Don't miss their exciting chase with a T-Rex and their race to get back home! Read how the Magic School bus kids become real Dinosaur Detectives.