EllRay Jakes Is Magic

Contributor(s): Warner, Sally (Author), Biggs, Brian (Illustrator)

ISBN: 9780142423608

Publisher: Puffin Books

Binding Types:

Paperback

$7.99

Digicover (1-4 copies)

$20.94 (Final Price)

Readerbound (5-99 copies)

$19.74 (100+ copies: $18.99)

List/retail price:

$7.99

Pub Date: March 6, 2014

Dewey: FIC

Lexile Code: 0760

Features: Price on Product - Canadian, Price on Product, Table of Contents

Target Age Group: 06 to 08

Physical Info: 0.50" H x 7.60" L x 5.00" W ( 0.30 lbs) 176 pages

BISAC Categories:

Series: EllRay Jakes

Accelerated Reader® Info

Quiz #:0000166595 ( EllRay Jakes Is Magic)

Reading level: 4.60

Interest level: LG

Point value: 3.0

Descriptions, Reviews, etc.

Description: Third-grader EllRay, a "shrimpy, goof-up kid," discovers magic all around him when he and his schoolmates participate in the Oak Glen Primary School talent show and work together on a wedding shower gift for their teacher.

Review Quotes: Praise for the EllRay Jakes series:

"Warner is a dead-on observer of playground politics, and has a great ear for dialogue."
--School Library Journal

"...ideal for reluctant readers."
--Booklist

"Young readers can identify with EllRay, who is neither a bad seed nor a goody-two-shoes; he and his sense of humor are just right."
--Kirkus Reviews

Honors for the EllRay Jakes series: EllRay Jakes is Not a Chicken Junior Library Guild selection, Scholastic Book Club selection, Texas Bluebonnet Award 2012-13, 2013 California Collections selection, BPL's 2012 Summer Reading List; EllRay Jakes is a Rock Star Junior Library Guild selection, Scholastic Book Club selection; EllRay Jakes Walks the Plank Junior Library Guild selection.