Jody Wheeler

"Nate the Great and his dog, Sludge, would like to take a break from solving cases. So they hide out in the woods. But soon they hear familiar voices shouting, "Nate the Great, where are you?" There are many mysteries to solve!"--

Join the world's greatest detective, Nate the Great, as he solves the mystery of the missing word! Perfect for beginning readers and the Common Core, this long-running chapter book series will encourage children to problem-solve with Nate, using logical thinking to solve mysteries! WHAT DOES A STRANGE, LONG, MADE-UP WORD SOUND LIKE? Esmeralda came up with the perfect name for Rosamond's pet concert. But she lost the pink paper where she wrote the...

Nate and his dog are invited to a birthday party where the birthday girl is bringing her four snakes, one of which goes missing.

When Lisa takes Corduroy to the theater for the first time, Corduroy heads out on his own to explore the whole building, including the dressing rooms, orchestra pit, and prop table.

Yoko and her classmates welcome Juanita, a new student from Texas, to their classroom.

When Yoko's class puts on a play about taking care of teeth, several students are not happy with their parts.

Yoko loves kindergarten, but she doesn't want her mother to leave--until her new friend helps her realize that "mothers always come back."

Yoko pretends she cannot read because she thinks that if her mother finds out she can, no one will read her a bedtime story.

After Almanzo helps with the chores on his family's farm in the New York countryside, he joins his parents, brother, and sisters for dinner and a winter evening at home.

Young Almanzo Wilder and his family attend a county fair in upstate New York.