How to Lose Your Class Pet

Valerie Wilson Wesley. Jump at the Sun, $3.99 (88pp) ISBN 978-0-7868-1322-3

The star of Willimena and the Cookie Money kicks off the first book in the Willimena Rules series with another runaway pet tale, How to Lose Your Class Pet by Valerie Wilson Wesley, illus. by Maryn Roos. The spunky third-grader, determined to win over her cranky teacher, volunteers to care for the class's pet guinea pig-with disastrous results.

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