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  • The Beast In Ms. Rooney's Room

    Patricia Reilly Giff, Blanche Sims

    School & Library Binding (Turtleback Books, Aug. 1, 1984)
    FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Held back for a year in 2nd-grade, Richard can't seem to help getting into trouble, until he gets really interested in reading and helps his class in a special way.
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  • The Candy Corn Contest

    Patricia Reilly Giff, Blanche Sims

    School & Library Binding (Turtleback Books, Nov. 2, 1987)
    FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. The second-grade's contest to see who can guess how many pieces of candy corn are in Ms. Rooney's jar becomes more complicated after Richard Best eats some of the treats.
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  • In The Dinosaur's Paw

    Patricia Reilly Giff

    School & Library Binding (Turtleback Books, Nov. 2, 1987)
    FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Richard Best finds a magic ruler in his desk, which seems to make his wishes come true, including one he wishes he could undo.
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  • Emily Arrow Promises To Do Better This Year

    Patricia Reilly Giff, Blanche Sims

    School & Library Binding (Turtleback, Oct. 1, 1990)
    FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Emily Arrow must fill a tall order for herself when she makes a New Year's resolution to be perfect at everything--school, cooking, cleaning, and friendship--a promise that may prove impossible.
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  • Fish Face

    Patricia Reilly Giff, Blanche Sims

    School & Library Binding (Turtleback Books, Sept. 1, 1984)
    FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Terrific math student and athlete Emily Arrow is delighted when a newcomer, Dawn Tiffanie Bosco, joins her class, until she discovers Dawn is a thief.
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  • Snaggle Doodles

    Patricia Reilly Giff, Blanche Sims

    School & Library Binding (Turtleback Books, March 1, 1985)
    FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Emily's class is divided up into groups and assigned to make inventions, but everyone in her group seems to be unable to cooperate.
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  • Sunny-Side Up

    Patricia Reilly Giff

    School & Library Binding (Turtleback Books, June 1, 1986)
    FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Summer for Richard Best, nicknamed Beast, means facing the two ordeals of summer school and losing his best friend, who is moving to a distant state.
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  • December Secrets

    Patricia Reilly Giff, Blanche Sims

    School & Library Binding (Turtleback Books, April 16, 1997)
    FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Everyone in Ms. Rooney's class has a special person to be kind to during the December holidays, but Emily has a tough time trying to make Jill Simon, the class crybaby, happy.
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  • Say "Cheese"

    Patricia Reilly Giff, Blanche Sims

    Hardcover (Perfection Learning, May 1, 1985)
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  • Monster Rabbit Runs Amuck!

    Patricia Reilly Giff, Blanche Sims

    School & Library Binding (Turtleback Books, Feb. 1, 1991)
    FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. While moving a huge rabbit on wheels onstage for the spring production, Richard ""Beast"" Best and his friend, Matthew Jackson, lose control and must find a way to put it back where it belongs before the big show.
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  • Spectacular Stone Soup

    Patricia Reilly Giff, Blanche Sims

    Library Binding (Perfection Learning, Dec. 1, 1988)
    "You never help people, " Jiwon says.Her friend is right. Stacy can't remember the last time she'd helped anyone! Now Mrs. Zachary wants her class to be people-helpers and prepare a Spectacular Stone Soup together.Stacy works hard to be helpful, but no one seems to notice. Can quick thinking and a bunch of onions turn her into a spectacular people-helper?
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  • Watch Out! Man-Eating Snake

    Patricia Reilly Giff

    Library Binding (Perfection Learning, Aug. 1, 1988)
    Stacy Arrow's first day of school isn't going well at all. She was only trying to help when she told Jiwon, the girl with the black hair, that her drawing of herself looked like a cow. And she didn't mean to scare her with stories about man-eating snakes. Now Jiwon refuses to be Stacy's best friend. What's Stacy doing wrong?"You have to be nice to a friend, " says Stacy's sister Emily, and suddenly Stacy knows what she has to do. But can her plan win her a best friend? Snakes or no snakes, Stacy's ready to try her hardest.
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