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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The janitor's boy	Andrew Clements	Fifth-grader Jack finds himself the target of ridicule at school when it becomes known that his father is one of the janitors, and he turns his anger onto his father.	OL102504W
Lunch money	Andrew Clements	Twelve-year-old Greg, who has always been good at moneymaking projects, is surprised to find himself teaming up with his lifelong rival, Maura, to create a series of comic books to sell at school.	OL102505W
Temple cat	Andrew Clements	A temple cat in ancient Egypt grows tired of being worshipped and cared for in a reverent fashion and travels to the seaside, where she finds genuine affection with a fisherman and his children.	OL102509W
Jake Drake know-it-all	Andrew Clements	Jake is determined to win the third grade science fair not only for the grand prize, but to beat the annoying class know-it-alls, as well.	OL102512W
Because your daddy loves you	Andrew Clements	When things go wrong during a day at the beach, like a ball that drifts away or a gooey ice cream mess, a father could do a lot of things but always picks the loving one.	OL15101229W
The Christmas kitten	Andrew Clements	Raggedy Ann and Andy find a kitten on Christmas Eve while out sledding.	OL15101234W
Double trouble in Walla Walla	Andrew Clements	It's an ordinary morning in Walla Walla until Lulu, her teacher, the school nurse, and the principal are all infected by a word warp which makes them reduplicate everything they say.	OL15101238W
The last holiday concert	Andrew Clements	Life is usually easy for popular fifth grader Hart Evans, but when his music teacher puts him in charge of the holiday concert, Hart must use all of his leadership skills to unite the other students.	OL15101244W
Milo's great invention	Andrew Clements	Milo, who does not share his family's fondness for peas, invents a machine to make the unpleasant vegetables disappear.	OL15101249W
Room one	Andrew Clements	Ted Hammond, the only sixth grader in his small Nebraska town's one-room schoolhouse, searches for clues to the disappearance of a homeless family. Ted Hammond loves a good mystery, and in the spring…	OL15101254W
Santa's secret helper	Andrew Clements	One Christmas Eve Santa has a secret helper who sets off in a reindeer-drawn sleigh with a huge sack of toys, just like Santa. But who is it? And will the helper do the job as well as Santa?	OL15101255W
Tara and Tiree, fearless friends	Andrew Clements	When Jim falls through the ice on a lake in Canada, his two dogs try to rescue him.	OL15101259W
Things that are	Andrew Clements	Still adjusting to being blind, Alicia must outwit an invisible man who is putting her family and her boyfriend, who was once invisible himself, in danger.	OL15101260W
Workshop	Andrew Clements	Describes, in rhyming text and illustrations, the characteristics of tools commonly found in most toolboxes.	OL15101263W
The janitor's boy	Andrew Clements	Fifth grader Jack finds himself the target of ridicule at school when it becomes known that his father is one of the janitors, and he turns his anger onto his father.	OL15394011W
The handiest things in the world	Andrew Clements	Celebrates in verse, accompanied by photographs, the many things hands can do.	OL15413455W
Frindle	Andrew Clements	When he decides to turn his fifth grade teacher's love of the dictionary around on her, clever Nick Allen invents a new word and begins a chain of events that quickly moves beyond his control.	OL15830711W
Jake Drake, know-it-all	Andrew Clements	Jake is determined to win the third grade science fair not only for the grand prize, but to beat the annoying class know-it-alls, as well.	OL15967932W
Big Al	Andrew Clements	A big, ugly fish has trouble making the friends he longs for because of his appearance--until the day his scary appearance saves them all from a fisherman's net.	OL16044899W
The mouse family	Andrew Clements	What's the Mouse family to do? Their dinner table is set, but their pantry is bare. Raggedy Ann, Raggedy Andy, and their doll friends come to the rescue by making a trip to the kitchen in the middle …	OL16046716W