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Books in Mathstart. Level 2 series

  • Pepper's Journal: A Kitten's First Year

    Stuart J. Murphy, Marsha Winborn

    Library Binding (HarperCollins, Jan. 5, 2000)
    After 7 days Pepper opens his eyes. After 2 months Pepper can leave his mother and come home with Lisa and Joey. After 3 months he needs a checkup at the vet's. In her journal Lisa writes down all the important events of Pepper's first year - and readers will learn all about days, weeks, months, and years as they find out just how much fun a new kitten can be.Together, Stuart J. Murphy and Marsha Winborn introduce the concept of calendar time and show all the fun and important things to do in a kitten's first year.
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  • The Best Bug Parade

    Stuart J. Murphy, Holly Keller

    School & Library Binding (Turtleback Books, March 27, 1996)
    FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Comparing and contrasting sizes is fun and easy in a basic math skills book that uses different and amusing drawings of bugs to teach and retain interest.
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  • Pepper's Journal: A Kitten's First Year

    Stuart J. Murphy, Marsha Winborn

    Hardcover (HarperCollins, Jan. 5, 2000)
    After 7 days Pepper opens his eyes. After 2 months Pepper can leave his mother and come home with Lisa and Joey. After 3 months he needs a checkup at the vet's. In her journal Lisa writes down all the important events of Pepper's first year - and readers will learn all about days, weeks, months, and years as they find out just how much fun a new kitten can be.Together, Stuart J. Murphy and Marsha Winborn introduce the concept of calendar time and show all the fun and important things to do in a kitten's first year.
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  • Coyotes All Around

    Stuart J. Murphy, Steve Bjorkman

    Hardcover (HarperCollins, Aug. 19, 2003)
    Clever Coyote thinks it's time for lunch -- and also time to show her friends how, with some simple rounding, she can add up numbers in her head. If only she were as good at hunting as she is at math!
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  • Bigger, Better, Best!

    Stuart J. Murphy, Marsha Winborn

    Paperback (HarperCollins, Aug. 20, 2002)
    Bigger, Better, Best! (LEVEL 2: Area) In their family′s new house, Jenny and Jeff are driving their little sister, Jill, crazy. Who has the bigger window? Who has the bigger bedroom? Jenny and Jeff must use a simple geometry concept to calculate area in order to prove once and for all whose room is bigger. Ages 6+
  • 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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  • 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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  • Super Sand Castle Saturday

    Stuart J. Murphy, Julia Gorton

    Paperback (Steck-Vaughn, Oct. 1, 1999)
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  • A Fair Bear Share

    Stuart J. Murphy, John Speirs

    Library Binding (HarperCollins, Jan. 1, 1998)
    All the bears must gather their share of ingredients in order to make a Blue Ribbon Blueberry Pie, but when one bear does not do his fair share, the others wonder if they will ever be able to make their special dessert.
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  • The Grizzly Gazette

    Stuart J. Murphy, Steve Bjorkman

    School & Library Binding (Turtleback Books, Dec. 24, 2002)
    FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. When Camp Grizzly elects their new mascot, there are three contestants in the running, and the percentage of the votes must be tallied to find out who wins the job.
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  • Room for Ripley

    Stuart J Murphy, Sylvie Wickstrom

    Library Binding (Perfection Learning, Sept. 1, 1999)
    Carlos pours cups, pints and quarts of water into his fish bowl, getting ready for his new puppy, Ripley. Readers can learn about capacity as they see just how much water it takes to make room for Ripley!
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  • The Shark Swimathon

    Stuart J. Murphy, Lynne Cravath

    School & Library Binding (Turtleback Books, Dec. 26, 2000)
    FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. As members of a swim team do laps to qualify for swim camp, readers can practice subtracting two-digit numbers to see how many laps are left to go.
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