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  • Sluggers' Car Wash

    Stuart J. Murphy, Barney Saltzberg

    Library Binding (HarperCollins, Aug. 20, 2002)
    The 21st Street Sluggers have a problem: Their team T-shirts are worn-out and dirty. They need new ones, but they have no money. How can they raise some? A car wash!The team gets to work. Lilly is scrubbing, Julia is squirting, Will is polishing, and CJ is kicking back and counting the dollars and cents. Pretty soon everyone is wet and tired -- except for CJ. But his teammates have a surprise in store for the master of the cash!Learning how to count money and make change are important real-life math skills -- but teamwork is the most valuable player in this sports story.
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  • Too Many Kangaroo Things to Do!: Multiplying

    Stuart J. Murphy, Kevin O'Malley

    Hardcover (Harpercollins Childrens Books, Aug. 1, 1996)
    A surprise birthday party planned for a kangaroo by his friends provides many opportunities for the reader to add and multiply various things
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  • Spunky Monkeys on Parade

    Stuart J. Murphy, Lynne Woodcock Cravath

    Library Binding (Paw Prints 2009-07-10, April 9, 2009)
    Confetti is flying and music is booming--it's the Monkey Day Parade! As monkey cyclists, tumblers, and drummers march by, readers can practice counting them by two, threes, and fours, an essential first step toward learning multiplication.Roo

  • Ready, Set, Hop!

    Stuart J. Murphy, Jon Buller

    Hardcover (HarperCollins, May 31, 1996)
    Frog friends, Matty and Moe, are off with a "Ready, Set, Hop!"They both made it to the rock, but who's in the lead? If Matty hopped 5 hops and Moe hopped 2 more hops than Matty, then the score is 5 to 7. But then they're off again. Any child who can add or subtract can build a simple equation, and Matty and Moe make it fun. As readers count along with Stuart J. Murphy and Jon Buller they will sharpen their problem solving skills and find out which frog is the better hopper.
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  • Dinosaur Deals

    Stuart J. Murphy, Heather Henson, Kevin O'Malley

    Hardcover (HarperCollins, Aug. 21, 2001)
    Lets Make a Deal!Mike and his little brother, Andy, are headed for the Dinosaur Card Trading Fair. They're ready to wheel and deal. It's, 4 Stegosaurus for 1 Triceratops, and 2 Triceratops for 1 Allosaurus. But can they get what they really want: the tremendous, gigantic, ferocious, Tyrannosaurus rex? The math concept of equivalency -- understanding when values are equal -- is introduced in this fast-paced story as two brothers try to beat the clock and make the ultimate trade.
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  • A House for Birdie

    Stuart J. Murphy, Edward Miller

    Hardcover (HarperCollins, Feb. 17, 2004)
    Poor tiny Birdie has no house. But Birdie does have friends. Spike, Queenie, Goldie, and Fidget want to help Birdie find a house of his own. Birdie needs a house that isn't too tall and isn't too thin, that isn't too short and isn't too fat, and that isn't too wide and isn't too narrow. Will they find a house for Birdie before the rain falls and the wind blows? A sweet and simple story about helping out a friend explains the math concept of capacity -- what will fit in a container of a particular shape and size.
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  • Too Many Kangaroo Things to Do: Multiplying

    Stuart J. Murphy, Kevin O'Malley

    Library Binding (HarperCollins, Aug. 1, 1996)
    Disappointed when no one will play with him on his birthday, young Kangaroo is unaware that all of his friends are using multiplication to figure out how many things they have to do to arrange a big surprise party for him.
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  • One...Two...Three...Sassafras!

    Stuart J. Murphy, John Wallace

    Hardcover (HarperCollins, Sept. 1, 2002)
    At the family reunion, the Lumpkin cousins line up in order of their ages to get their pictures taken, introducing the concept of numerical order. Simultaneous.
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  • Lemonade for Sale

    Stuart J. Murphy, Tricia Tusa

    Library Binding (HarperCollins, Jan. 1, 1998)
    Beginning readers are introduced to bar graphs as a group of children and their pet parrot go into business selling lemonade and keep a bar graph to track their sales.
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  • Dinosaur Deals

    Stuart J. Murphy, Heather Henson, Kevin O'Malley

    Library Binding (HarperCollins, Aug. 21, 2001)
    Lets Make a Deal!Mike and his little brother, Andy, are headed for the Dinosaur Card Trading Fair. They're ready to wheel and deal. It's, 4 Stegosaurus for 1 Triceratops, and 2 Triceratops for 1 Allosaurus. But can they get what they really want: the tremendous, gigantic, ferocious, Tyrannosaurus rex? The math concept of equivalency -- understanding when values are equal -- is introduced in this fast-paced story as two brothers try to beat the clock and make the ultimate trade.
    L

  • Every Buddy Counts

    Stuart J. Murphy, Fiona Dunbar

    Library Binding (HarperCollins, Feb. 28, 1997)
    Whenever she feels lonely, a little girl counts her friends to cheer herself up, from one little hamster and two trumpet-playing sisters to eight playmates and finally ten cuddly teddy bears.
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  • Sluggers' Car Wash

    Stuart J. Murphy, Barney Saltzberg

    Hardcover (HarperCollins, Sept. 1, 2002)
    The 21st Street Sluggers have a problem: Their team T-shirts are worn-out and dirty. They need new ones, but they have no money. How can they raise some? A car wash!The team gets to work. Lilly is scrubbing, Julia is squirting, Will is polishing, and CJ is kicking back and counting the dollars and cents. Pretty soon everyone is wet and tired -- except for CJ. But his teammates have a surprise in store for the master of the cash!Learning how to count money and make change are important real-life math skills -- but teamwork is the most valuable player in this sports story.
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