Johanna Hurwitz

Curtis gets a dog when his parents divorce, but his beloved new dog causes problems that he did not expect.

Award-winning author Johanna Hurwitz is back with a new addition to the charming Park Pals Adventures series. Squirrels Lexington (Lexi) and Lenox decide to visit the New York City streets they were named after. Lexi is worried about leaving Central Park, but Lenox is confident that their streets will be beautiful places, maybe even better than the park! When the twosquirrels venture into the city, they soon realize that the human world is strangerand...

Lexi the squirrel doesn't trust humans. After all, it was a human who abandoned PeeWee the guinea pig in Central Park. So Lexi is outraged when a strange-looking man swipes the apple that the friends were about to eat. But when the stranger rescues PeeWee from the jaws of a dog, Lexi has a change of heart. Can two rodents make a difference in the life of a man living hungry and friendless in Central Park? Welcome back the street-smart squirrel and...

Lucas Cott is one of the smartest kids in Mrs. Hockaday's third grade class, but everyone thinks he's just the class clown. He races pencils, cracks jokes, and calls out answers without raising his hand. Of course, he gets in trouble a lot-but Lucas blames that on Cricket Kaufman, the biggest tattletale in the third grade. One day, Lucas decides that he doesn't want to get in trouble anymore. From now on, he's going to become the perfect student....

A yard sale, ice skating, class pictures, and a surprise party are a few of the things that make fourth grade fun for Julio and his friends, but they must get serious about studying as the statewide end-of-year test approaches.

The adventures of five-year-old Elisa as she attends her brother's recital, gets new eyeglasses, moves with her family to a new apartment, and welcomes the new baby.

Fifth grader Derek and his best friend Rory are delighted when their neighbor's niece Bolivia comes to town for another visit, until a lot of missing objects make Derek begin to doubt Rory's honesty.

A biography of a young Jewish girl who died in the Holocaust, but left behind a diary detailing the two years her family hid from the Nazis.