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  • Clarice Bean, Guess Who's Babysitting

    Lauren Child

    Paperback (Candlewick, May 11, 2010)
    Lauren Child’s spunky character returns and — as if things could get any livelier in Clarice Bean’s household —Uncle Ted is babysitting!Who can Mom and Dad get to babysit the feisty Clarice, her pesky brother Minal Cricket, and the school’s guinea pig, Albert, who’s visiting for spring break? (Not to mention teenage brother Kurt, who abhors daylight; big sis Marcie, who chats on the phone all day; and Grandad, who tends to wander off.) Only Uncle Ted, firefighter and movie addict, can be persuaded. Will he survive the week?
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  • Clarice Bean: The Utterly Complete Collection

    Lauren Child

    Paperback (Candlewick, Oct. 14, 2008)
    Three Clarice Bean novels in one box! “Clarice is quickly stepping out from behind the shadow of other witty characters such as Junie B. Jones."— SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNALIrrepressible, sassy, quirky (and sometimes frenetic), the endearing, utterly entertaining Clarice Bean is the star of three full-length adventures featuring Lauren Child's wacky wit and eccentric visual energy. Now readers can easily keep pace with this spirited middle-grader, thanks to a boxed set offering all three of her fiction titles. Included are:UTTERLY ME, CLARICE BEANCLARICE BEAN SPELLS TROUBLECLARICE BEAN, DON'T LOOK NOW
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  • Clarice Bean, That's Me

    Lauren Child

    Paperback (Candlewick, Feb. 9, 2010)
    Clarice Bean’s beloved picture books are available in paperback with dynamic covers featuring flaps, die-cuts, foil, and more!When your annoying little brother shares your room, your older brother is in the tunnel of adolescence, your dad hides in his office swaying to Frank Sinatra, and your mother listens to foreign language tapes in the bathtub, what can you do to get away from it all? Meet the irrepressible Clarice Bean on her search for a little peace and quiet amid the wonderfully wacky chaos of a large extended family.
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  • Clarice Bean Spells Trouble

    Lauren Child

    Library Binding (Paw Prints 2008-05-09, May 9, 2008)
    The quirky Clarice Bean is in for a spell of trouble €” and shares a lesson about kindness €” in this hilarious, full-length follow-up to UTTERLY ME, CLARICE BEAN.Clarice Bean seems to be in nonstop trouble these days, almost as much as Karl Wrenbury, who is the naughtiest boy at school. If only she could be more like her favorite book character, Ruby Redfort, girl detective, who is very good at getting out of trouble. The problem is, Mrs. Wilberton is planning a spelling bee, and just thinking about it gives Clarice a stomachache. The good news is that there is also going to be a class performance of THE SOUND OF MUSIC, and Clarice is exceptionordinarily keen on landing a starring role, so she can get discovered by someone who spots child talents and escape spelling-bee humiliation. But when Karl Wrenbury has a family problem and gets into really big trouble, Clarice does something utterly unexpected, altruistically proving Ruby Redfort's maxim "Never let a good
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  • Clarice Bean, What Planet Are You From?

    Lauren Child

    Paperback (Candlewick, Feb. 9, 2010)
    Now in paperback! Clarice Bean needs a science project or she's in BIG trouble. Her brother Kurt just wants to save the planet. And now they're both up a tree."Sometimes I think gravity is a pity," says Clarice Bean, who is learning about planet Earth in school. For a project on the environment, her brain leaps to the holes in the sky from her sister’s hairspray and the nature safari in her brother’s bedroom. But when a big neighborhood tree is about to be chopped to pieces, she has no choice but to join her quirky family in its branches and save the day.
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  • Clarice Bean Spells Trouble

    Lauren Child

    Paperback (Candlewick, May 9, 2006)
    Clarice Bean is in for a spell of trouble — and shares a lesson about kindness — in this hilarious sequel to the New York Times bestseller.Clarice Bean seems to be in nonstop trouble these days, almost as much as Karl Wrenbury, who is the naughtiest boy at school. If only she could be more like her favorite book character, Ruby Redfort, girl detective, who is very good at getting out of trouble. The problem is, Mrs. Wilberton is planning a spelling bee, and just thinking about it gives Clarice a stomachache. But when Karl Wrenbury has a family problem and gets into really big trouble, Clarice does something utterly unexpected, altruistically proving Ruby Redfort's maxim "Never let a good pal down." The superbly talented Lauren Child presents a fast-paced, full-length adventure full of wacky wit, visual appeal, and a surprisingly heartwarming twist sure to reel in the most reluctant reader.
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  • What Planet Are You From, Clarice Bean?

    Lauren Child

    Hardcover (Candlewick, Feb. 18, 2002)
    Clarice Bean needs a science project or she's in BIG trouble. Her brother Kurt just wants to save the planet. And now they're both up a tree."Sometimes I think gravity is a pity," says Clarice Bean, who is learning all about planet Earth in school. When Mrs. Wilberton assigns a project called The Environment, Clarice’s ever-active brain leaps to the holes in the sky caused by her sister’s hairspray, and to the nature safari that’s in her brother’s bedroom. But when she learns that a big tree right on Navarino Street is about to be chopped to pieces, Clarice has no choice but to join her quirky family up in the tree’s branches, eat spaghetti, and save the day.In a welcome new installment in the Clarice Bean escapades, Lauren Child makes a clear case for ecoaction - and gives the cause of saving the planet a hilarious new spin.
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  • Clarice Bean, Guess Who's Babysitting?

    Lauren Child

    Hardcover (Candlewick, March 1, 2001)
    Lauren Child’s spunky character returns and—as if things could get any livelier in Clarice Bean’s household—Uncle Ted is babysitting!Uh-oh! Mom and Dad have to go away for a few days and who can they get to babysit? Who would be willing to take on the irrepressible Clarice Bean, her pesky brother Minal Cricket, and the school’s guinea pig, Albert, who’s visiting for spring break? (Not to mention teenage brother Kurt, who abhors daylight; big sis Marcie, who chats on the phone all day; and Grandad, who tends to wander off.) Surprisingly, only Uncle Ted, firefighter and movie addict, can be persuaded. Will he survive the week? Find out, in Lauren Child’s hilariously original sequel to her award-winning CLARICE BEAN, THAT’S ME.
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  • Clarice Bean, That's Me

    Lauren Child

    Hardcover (Candlewick, Aug. 4, 1999)
    Lauren Child evokes the (mostly) joyful chaos of family life—through the eyes of an observant young narrator.I know lots of people, most of them in my family.Some of them live in our house,and some of them just visit.We are always raising a ruckus,but that's the way we (mostly) like it.When your annoying little brother shares your room, your older brother is in the tunnel of adolescence, your dad hides in his office eating rocky road ice cream and swaying to Frank Sinatra, and your mother listen to foreign language tapes in a candlelit bathtub, what can you do to get away from it all? Meet the feisty Clarice Bean and sympathize with her search for just a little peace and quiet amidst a family many of us will recognize only too well. In a brilliant picture book debut, Lauren Child's witty text and jazzy illustrations capture the wonderful wacky chaos of a large extended family from the hilarious vantage point of one of its youngest members.
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  • Utterly Me, Clarice Bean

    Lauren Child

    Library Binding (Turtleback Books, March 3, 2005)
    FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. When someone steals the winner's trophy for the school book project, Clarice emulates her favorite book heroine, Ruby Redfort the detective.
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  • Clarice Bean, Don't Look Now

    Lauren Child

    Paperback (Candlewick, Aug. 12, 2008)
    "Told in Child’s familiar stream-of-consciousness style and punctuated with creative vocabulary. . . . Clarice is quickly stepping out from behind the shadow of other witty characters such as Junie B. Jones." — School Library JournalIt’s the worry you hadn’t even thought to worry about that should worry you the most. At least that’s how it looks to Clarice Bean, who has been writing her worries in a notebook — things like Worry no. 1: infinity, or Worry no. 3: change. And now that her worst never-imagined worry has happened — her utterly best friend is moving away forever — Clarice doesn’t even care about her tickets to the Ruby Redfort, girl detective, movie premiere. That is, unless something happens to change things again. . . . Lauren Child’s trademark wit combines with spot-on insight in this hugely engaging story about childhood worries, unwanted changes, and finding friendships in the most surprising places.
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  • Clarice Bean, Don't Look Now

    Lauren Child

    Library Binding (Turtleback Books, Aug. 12, 2008)
    FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. When her best friend in the whole world announces that she is moving away, Clarice Bean has a new entry for her ""Worry"" journal and hopes that something will happen to change things back to the way they were.
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