The Beez Library Children's Books: Easy Reading Easy reading books for children under 10 The Dragon's Scales (Step-Into-Reading, Step 3) When a hot-tempered dragon seizes the local bridge, the people of Berryville are cut off from their supply of beloved strawberries until they can correctly answer three questions related to weight. The grownups of the town are stumped, but one very smart little girl saves the day with some facts she learned in school.   Sybil Ludington's Midnight Ride (On My Own History) The story of Sybil Ludington's ride on horseback to rouse American soldiers to fight against the British who were attacking Danbury, Connecticut during the American Revolution. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Abigail Takes the Wheel (I Can Read Book 4) Collision in the Harbor! Abigail and her brother, Tom, travel to school every day aboard their father's freight boat, the Neptune. One day, two ships collide in the Narrows, and Abigail's father goes to their aid--leaving Abigail to take the Neptune's wheel. Can she and Tom steer the freight boat through the crowded and dangerous waters of New York Harbor alone? Avi's many award-winning books for young readers include the Newbery Medal winner Crispin: The Cross of Lead, as well as the Newbery Honor Books nothing but the truth and the true confessions of charlotte doyle. He is the author of the beloved Poppy books, an animal adventure series that includes Ragweed, Poppy (winner of the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award), Poppy and Rye, Ereth's Birthday, and Poppy's Return. His critically acclaimed novels also include Don't You Know There's a War On? and the hilarious animal fantasy The Mayor of Central Park. Avi lives in Denver, Colorado. Tye May and the Magic Brush Plucky Tye May. She learns to paint. Lucky Tye May. Her brush is magic. Wise Tye May. She thinks quickly -- and well. Molly Bang lives in Falmouth, Massachusetts. The Case of the Double Cross (I Can Read Book 2) Wizard's private eyes don't want any girls in their clubhouse. But a funny little man double-crosses the boys with a message in code. Then Marigold and her girlfriends get to show just how much the private eyes really need them. Sid and Sam (My First I Can Read) Sid and Sam start to sing. But Sid doesn't stop. What can Sam do when Sid's song is too long? Laura Godwin has written several I Can Read Books under the name of Nola Buck including the popular Creepy Crawly Critters and Other Halloween Tongue Twisters and Santas Short Suit Shrunk and Other Christmas Tongue Twisters. Ms. Godwin lives in New York City. The Big Balloon Race (I Can Read Book 3) Ariel would love to be in the basket of Lucky Star on the day of the big balloon race against Bernard the Brave. Her mother, Carlotta the Great, is the best lady balloonist in America. But Ariel's parents think she is too young. Little do they know she is asleep in the Odds and Ends box when Carlotta the Great orders "Hands off!" and the balloon race begins. The thrills of Ariel's first ride in a hydrogen balloon come to life in this story based on a real ballooning family of the late 1800's. Carolyn Croll's pictures capture the pageantry and drama of the race, and will have readers rooting to the end for Ariel and her mother. Baseball Ballerina (Step into Reading, Step 3) Illus. in full color. A shortstop in a tutu? Not if she can help it! Forced by her mother into taking ballet lessons, a die-hard tomboy discovers that there's team spirit at the barre as well as on the baseball diamond. Aunt Eater's Mystery Vacation (An I Can Read Book) Aunt Eater hopes to take a relaxing vacation at the Hotel Bathwater. But before long, a missing ferry captain, a diamond ring thief, an absentminded professor, and a suspicious-looking woman arouse her curiosity. "Here's a sprightly, easy-to-read chapter book [that] beginning readers are bound to enjoy."—BL. Children's Books of 1992 (Library of Congress) Doug Cushman is the author-illustrator of the popular I Can Read Books, Aunt Eater Loves a Mystery, a 1988 Reading Rainbow Selection, and Camp Big Paw. He has illustrated other books for children, including Tillie and Mert by Ida Luttrell . Mr. Cushman lives in New Haven, CT. Clara and the Bookwagon (I Can Read Book 3) Papa will not allow Clara to learn to read—he says that ‘Farm people like us do not have time to read." But when the traveling bookwagon, with persuasive Miss Mary at the reins, arrives at their farm, Papa realizes he must change his mind. Based on the true story of America’s first ‘bookmobile.’ Nancy Smiler Levinson has written many popular books for young readers, including Magellan and the First Voyange Around the World and the I Can Read Books Clara and the Bookwagon, illustrated by Carolyn Croll, and Snowshoe Thompson, illustrated by Joan Sandin. She lives in Beverly Hills, California. more...