Books with title The Trouble with Beasts

Holly's identical twin brothers, Jeremy and Dylan, are about to turn three. They are adorable; but because of them, everyone else in the household is exhausted and stressed out, even the four cats. When Holly volunteers to throw the twins a birthday party with a little help from her friends, she's just trying to be helpful.Why didn't someone tell her the event would tumble into complete chaos, with guests running amok, unbelievable messes, and a cake savaged by hungry cats? This comical chapter book looks at the upsides, downsides, and upside down nature of daily life with toddlers in the family.

Meet Zenon Kar. She’s your typical elementary school kid, except she lives on a space station in 2049! These humorous stories about Zenon are all reality-based so kids can easily identify with her situations. In book #3, when an important Earth scientist visits Space Station 9, Zenon agrees to entertain his daughter, Teena. At first Zee’s job is easy. Teena seems polite and well behaved. But when the adults turn their backs, she changes completely! All Teena cares about is having fun, even if it means breaking all sorts of space station rules. Written and illustrated by the award-winning husband-and-wife team who created P. J. Funnybunny and Alistair.

Kate DiCamillo meets Lemony Snicket in this darkly comic novel about two sisters who learn they are each others' most important friend!Imagine two twin sisters, Arabella and Henrietta--nearly identical yet with nothing in common. They're the best of friends . . . until one day they aren't. Plain and quiet Henrietta has a secret plan to settle the score, and she does something outrageous and she can't take it back. When the deed is discovered, Henrietta is sent to live with her eccentric great-aunt! Suddenly life with pretty, popular Arabella doesn't seem so awful. And, though she's been grievously wronged, Arabella longs for her sister, too. So she hatches a plan of her own and embarks on an unexpected journey to reunite with her other half.

Sam and Hannah know how to have fun together. But then Hannah gets a new doll named Baby.Baby goes everywhere with Hannah. When they play school, Hannah calls on Baby, not Sam. When they play jukebox, Baby gets to sing before Sam.Sam doesn't like Baby at all.In this true-to-life story, a brother and sister find a creative way to deal with jealousy. How can Sam, Hannah, and Baby all have fun together? The solution is simple and clever and surprising.

Set against the turbulent backdrop of the Boston Tea Party, this story of two friends is full of political intrigue and romance. The Trouble with Tea opens with Patience traveling in a private carriage to her best friend Anne's home in Boston, where her adventures begin. Patience and Anne both find themselves swept up in the heated political climate of colonial Boston. Loyalists, steadfast in their allegiance to England are pitted against those who fervently plot for independence. The feisty heroine quickly discovers that her own beliefs are the opposite of her friend's. Against the finale of the explosive Tea Party comes the upheaval of independence, not only for the young colony, but for two childhood friends as well. This book interweaves historical fact with a coming of age story using such creativity and detail that the reader is transported in time.

The trouble with you is that you have a wild imagination, people tell Tessa. So what if she calls herself Athena, the goddess of wisdom and a woman of the twenty-first century? It's that wild imagination that will make her a good writer. When Tessa finds yellowing pages torn from a book in the bottom of a beat-up trunk in a musty attic filled with cobwebs and junk, she realizes what she's found: directions for magic spells. It was no coincidence that she found the sheets, Tessa decides. She has the power. When Tessa's diary with the magic spells disappears, she panics. What good is a witch without her spells? When she recovers her diary, she even makes a new friend. Again, Tessa believes her life is charmed. Tessa's developing powers hit a roadblock, however, when she casts a spell that she wishes she could take back. Suddenly, everything's changing, and Tessa fears that her secret powers are spinning out of control. When Tessa's reversal spell doesn't work, Tessa must rely on her friends and the power of her family's bond to get her out of this snare. Popular young adult author Ofelia Dumas Lachtman has once again crafted a novel about a precocious young girl and her unlimited curiosity. Tackling topics that teens face, Lachtman's novel is at once a funny story about a young girl's quest to make life interesting and about her learning to accept that sometimes family ties are the strongest magic in the world.