Beast in Ms. Rooney's Room (The Kids of Polk Street School)

by Patricia Reilly Giff, Blanche Sims (Illustrator)

Overview

It's September again.What does it mean for Richard "Beast" Best to be left back? It means being teased by his old friends while he's stuck facing the same old teacher in the same old classroom. He even has to take a special reading class with "babies" like Emily Arrow and Matthew Jackson. And just like last year, he can't help getting into trouble.But with the help of Mrs. Paris, the reading teacher, Beast starts to enjoy reading and just might find a way to help the second grade win the school banner for best class.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780440404859
Publisher:	Random House Children's Books
Publication date:	08/01/1984
Series:	The Kids of the Polk Street School , #1
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	80
Sales rank:	411,826
Product dimensions:	5.13(w) x 7.63(h) x 0.21(d)
Lexile:	530L (what's this?)
Age Range:	6 - 9 Years

About the Author

Patricia Reilly Giff has recieved the Newbery Honor for Pictures of Hollis Woods and Lily’s Crossing, which is also a Boston Globe–Horn Book Honor Book. Nory Ryan’s Song was named an ALA Best Book for Young Adults and an ALA Notable Book.

Blanche Sims is a children’s book illustrator, born in Cleveland, Ohio. She has illustrated dozens of books, as well as the television film Beyond the Butterfly, which won a Parents’ Choice Foundation commendation for television in 2000.