Sarah Weeks

You couldn't really tell about Mama's brain just from looking at her, but it was obvious as soon as she spoke. She had a high voice, like a little girl's, and she only knew twenty-three words. I know this for a fact, because we kept a list of the things Mama said tacked to the inside of the kitchen cabinet. Most of the words were common ones, like good and more and hot, but there was one word only my mother said, soof. Although she lives an unconventional...

In rhyming text, a happy pig proclaims the joys of her porcine life.

LEVEL 2.

This book presents a look at the many different ways to prepare the very same food, as everyone in a diner orders eggs.

Eleven-year-old Verbena Polter gets through a difficult summer of turbulent emotions and the revelation of a disturbing family secret with an odd new friend who believes she is the ghost of a girl who drowned many years before.

A young boy protects and encourages a newly hatched sea turtle until it finds its way to the sea.

When increasing numbers of sheep in a rainbow of colors appear in a man's bedroom as he tries to fall asleep, he must resort to more and more elaborate means of removing them.

When Ella is banned from bringing her umbrella to the dance recital, she comes up with an ingenious solution to the problem.