Minnie and Daisy's class is going on a field trip to the Moushattan Museum of History. Minnie is really excited because she loves art and history; Daisy thinks it's going to be a snoozefest. When they get to the museum, their history teacher announces that the students will be doing a scavenger hunt. They have a list of questions to solve, and the answers can be found in the museum's exhibits. The first team to finish with correct answers will get extra credit toward their history grade! The hunt is going fine, until Daisy suggests that she and Minnie split up. She thinks they can divide and conquer, and she really wants to win because her history grade is suffering. Minnie sets off in search of a famous painting and Daisy heads out to the Bumblebeegypt room. They are supposed to meet back at the lobby, but when Daisy doesn't show up, Minnie is worried. Is Daisy lost? Will she get back in time--and with the correct answer--so they can win the scavenger hunt?

The town of Mouston is holding a student ice skating competition, and naturally, being a jock of all sports, Daisy wants to enter. However, the rules require teams of three, and while Minnie is an obvious choice, Daisy still needs to find a third team member. Konnie, the foreign exchange student has a sprained ankle. Leonard is a hockey champion . . . on his Flighty Ducks phone app. So that leaves Nancy, and she is afraid is afraid of ice-skate blades—especially the toe pick! Teaching Nancy to skate is hard—harder than the ice she falls on every thirty seconds! Meanwhile, Abigail and her sidekicks are coming up with a plan to win—no matter what. Will Minnie, Daisy, and Nancy be able to edge out the competition?

The Art of Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse is a celebration of the true original icon, spanning the ninety years that Mickey Mouse has been entertaining audiences with heartfelt performances and humorous antics. The book begins with a comprehensive filmography, listing Mickey's animated performances in shorts, films, and television shows. This impressive résumé is followed by an analysis of Mickey's milestones: the firsts he has attained, the achievements he has made, and the recognitions he has received throughout his life thus far. A special double gatefold commemorates Mickey and Minnie's ninetieth anniversary with ninety pieces of artwork depicting the famous pair, from never-before-seen animation drawings to classic comic book covers. The final portion of the book is a jubilant commemoration comprised of new artwork, interpretations of Mickey Mouse contributed by the inspired minds at Disney Consumer Products and Interactive Media. Here, Mickey is reimagined in a variety of media ranging from digital renderings to traditional paintings, in styles as unique and different as the artists themselves.

In this second chapter book in the Minnie & Daisy B.F.F. series, there isn't a sport on the planet that Daisy Duck doesn't like. So when she takes her first surfing lesson, she falls in love with wave-riding immediately and becomes determined to buy her very own surfboard. The only problem is, surfboards are expensive! So when Daisy hears that her neighbor needs a pet-sitter, she volunteers eagerly, thinking that it will be an easy way to jumpstart her surfboard savings fund. But as it turns out, this is no ordinary pet-sitting job. Daisy's furry charge turns out to be a sugar glider, and while the little guy may look adorable, he turns out to be quite the handful. Daisy soon realizes that she is in way over her head, so she calls in her BFF, Minnie, for reinforcements. Can the two of them hold down the fort until Daisy's neighbor gets home?

With the warmth and humor we've come to know, the creator and host of A Prairie Home Companion shares his own remarkable story. In That Time of Year, Garrison Keillor looks back on his life and recounts how a Brethren boy with writerly ambitions grew up in a small town on the Mississippi in the 1950s and, seeing three good friends die young, turned to comedy and radio. Through a series of unreasonable lucky breaks, he founded A Prairie Home Companion and put himself in line for a good life, including mistakes, regrets, and a few medical adventures. PHC lasted forty-two years, 1,557 shows, and enjoyed the freedom to do as it pleased for three or four million listeners every Saturday at 5 p.m. Central. He got to sing with Emmylou Harris and Renée Fleming and once sang two songs to the U.S. Supreme Court. He played a private eye and a cowboy, gave the news from his hometown, Lake Wobegon, and met Somali cabdrivers who’d learned English from listening to the show. He wrote bestselling novels, won a Grammy and a National Humanities Medal, and made a movie with Robert Altman with an alarming amount of improvisation. He says, “I was unemployable and managed to invent work for myself that I loved all my life, and on top of that I married well. That’s the secret, work and love. And I chose the right ancestors, impoverished Scots and Yorkshire farmers, good workers. I’m heading for eighty, and I still get up to write before dawn every day.”

Phineas and Ferb are headed to their grandparents' lake cabin for a weekend of outdoor adventure with their friends! They play games, toast marshmallows, and share spooky stories around the campfire. But could there be a real-life Bigfoot watching them from the shadows? The fun continues when Grandpa tells everyone the tale of Badbeard the Pirate—and Phineas and Ferb lead the hunt for Badbeard's long-lost treasure! Readers will love this fun chapter book filled with exciting black-and-white pictures from the show.

“Garrison Keillor made it possible, after twenty years of black humor…to be both funny and nice, hip and winsome, scathing and loving, all in the flick of a single many-barbed quip——The Washington Post Book World “Keillor’s literary style is as flexible and assured as his vocal delivery. It can slip from mood to mood so subtly and quickly you’re never quite sure where you are…. [His] writing has the silvery slip of running water, so graceful and easy it’s hard to believe it can carry so much that is jagged and unresolved. His integrity lies in his not smoothing away those rough edges in the swift current of his prose; they’re bruisingly, sometimes cuttingly there.” —The Village Voice