Book Features: • Ages 4-8, Grades PreK-2, Guided Reading Level E, Lexile • 24 pages, 8 inches x 8 inches • Simple, easy-to-read pages with full-color illustrations • Includes words to know and comprehension questions • Reading/teaching tips included Fun With Katie: In Katie Gets A Pet, preschoolers—second graders learn about the responsibilities behind adopting a pet, and what Katie does to become a great dog owner! Celebrating Uniqueness: Katie has Down syndrome; routines help her every day. When Katie adopts a dog, she creates a routine to help her care for her new pet! Watch Katie go through her routine to take care of her new furry friend! Build Reading Skills: This engaging 24-page children’s book will help your child improve comprehension and build confidence with guided reading tips and comprehension questions. Leveled Books: Part of the Katie Can series, the early reading level text and full-color illustrations make this children’s book an engaging story that teaches kids about responsibility, diversity, and the importance of a routine. Why Rourke Educational Media: Since 1980, Rourke Publishing Company has specialized in publishing engaging and diverse non-fiction and fiction books for children in a wide range of subjects that support reading success on a level that has no limits.

Katie McGinty is finally big enough to have her own pet, and she's so excited! But she doesn't want a cat, or a dog, or a hamster. Katie wants a pet that's a little more unusual-and she has the perfect plan for taking care of it!

Book Features: * Ages 4-8, Grades PreK-2, Guided Reading Level E, Lexile * 24 pages, 8 inches x 8 inches * Simple, easy-to-read pages with full-color illustrations * Includes words to know and comprehension questions * Reading/teaching tips included Fun With Katie: In Katie Gets A Pet, preschoolers--second graders learn about the responsibilities behind adopting a pet, and what Katie does to become a great dog owner! Celebrating Uniqueness: Katie has Down syndrome; routines help her every day. When Katie adopts a dog, she creates a routine to help her care for her new pet! Watch Katie go through her routine to take care of her new furry friend! Build Reading Skills: This engaging 24-page children's book will help your child improve comprehension and build confidence with guided reading tips and comprehension questions. Leveled Books: Part of the Katie Can series, the early reading level text and full-color illustrations make this children's book an engaging story that teaches kids about responsibility, diversity, and the importance of a routine. Why Rourke Educational Media: Since 1980, Rourke Publishing Company has specialized in publishing engaging and diverse non-fiction and fiction books for children in a wide range of subjects that support reading success on a level that has no limits.

Katie the dog learns that sharing can be fun when she becomes friends with the playful puppy next door.

The acclaimed author and illustrator of Chickens to the Rescue has created a sweet, funny, and entirely irresistible new character—a little dog just bursting with good intentions. Katie is so excited when Sara Ann brings home three little kittens that she can't stop herself from howling "AROOOOO!" and trying to run after them. She loves them so much! But Katie's enthusiasm frightens the kitties, and she's sad when they run away from her. Don't they know that she just wants to play? Katie Loves the Kittens is a 2009 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

A personal memoir by bestselling author and celebrity journalist Glenn Plaskin, KATIEis a moving story about a man who discovers the true meaning of family after adopting a cocker spaniel puppy. Through the magnetic personality of his mischievous dog, the author soon makes powerful connections with several of his down-the-hall neighbors in a high-rise located in the unique Battery Park City neighborhood of Lower Manhattan. First, Katie trots into the lives of Pearl and Arthur, a warm-hearted elderly couple just a few doors down from Glenn. Later, John, a single Dad, and his rambunctious young son, Ryan, also move in and are seduced by Katie's charms. All of their lives are profoundly changed as they are transformed from neighbors to friends to family, with Pearl as matriarch. The motherless boy finds a "Granny"; his Dad inherits a mother, Glenn discovers a confidante. Set in New York City, we witness nearly sixteen years of antics and family adventures spanning Hollywood high times, bad health, accidents, blustery winters, even the terrors of 9/11. Through it all, the family clings to each other, sharing a deep bond that give each comfort, support and security. Based upon a widely-read article in Family Circle, here is an unforgettable story about the love that makes a family-one that transcends the hard realities of time, tragedy, and inevitable loss.

NOMINATED FOR MULTIPLE STATE AWARDS! Calling all Raina Telgemeier fans! Introducing an irresistible new middle-grade graphic novel series about growing up, friendship, heroes, and cats (lots of cats!)--perfect for fans of Guts, Awkward and Real Friends (not to mention anyone who loves cats!) “Readers will revel in the heroic antics.” --The New York Times Katie is dreading the boring summer ahead while her best friends are all away at camp--something that's way out of Katie and her mom's budget, UNLESS Katie can figure out a way to earn the money for camp herself. But when Katie gets a job catsitting for her mysterious upstairs neighbor, life get interesting. First, Madeline has 217 cats (!) and they're not exactly . . . normal cats. Also, why is Madeline always out EXACTLY when the city's most notorious villain commits crimes?! Is it possible that Katie's upstairs neighbor is really a super villain? Can Katie wrangle a whole lot of wayward cats, save a best friendship (why is Beth barely writing back? And who's this boy she keeps talking about?!), AND crack the biggest story in the city's history? Some heroes have capes . . . Katie has cats! Don't miss the next Katie the Catsitters—Katie the Catsitter 2: Best Friends for Never and Katie the Catsitter 3: Secrets and Sidekicks! A Florida Sunshine State Reader Award nominee A South Carolina Book Award nominee A Connecticut Nutmeg Book Award nominee A Vermont Golden Dome Book Award nominee A Maine Student Book Award nominee A North Carolina Children's Book Award nominee An Indiana Young Hoosier Book Award nominee An Illinois Bluestem Readers’ Choice nominee And more!