I Lost My Tooth in Africa
by Penda Diakite

While visiting her father's family in Mali, a young girl hopes to lose a tooth, so she can put it under a gourd, and get a chicken from the African Tooth Fairy.

Great Estimations
By Bruce Goldstone

How many jelly beans are on the cover of this book? Don’t count, estimate! Bruce Goldstone helps viewers train themselves to estimate the size of groups of about 10 things on sight then goes on to present similar materials by hundreds and then by thousands.

The Invention of Hugo Cabret
by Brian Selznick

When twelve-year-old Hugo, an orphan living and repairing clocks within the walls of a Paris train station in 1931, meets a mysterious toyseller and his goddaughter, his undercover life and his biggest secret are jeopardized. The novel contains 284 original drawings by the author.