Zigzag Zoom

When the Timpanzi Tigers challenge the Zigzag Zebras to a race, Gina worries because she knows she is not a fast runner, but the whole school seems to be counting on her to win.

Monkey loves peanuts more than anything and the day he found a can of them he knew was going to be a very spectacular day! However, the other animals in the jungle have very different plans for monkey's wonderful treat but who will end up with the can in the end just might surprise everyone.

Text and photographs show people and things which make zigzag movement including sewing machines, sailboats, people playing checkers, and people skiing.

With some help from a group of field mice, an odd-looking doll--named Zigzag for his crooked mouth--searches for a child to love him.

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The fun has only just begun for Monkey when he discovers a can of peanuts one day. But the other animals also have plans for that can of peanuts too. The craziness that ensues when Monkey tries to get his prize back will have you wondering if Monkey will ever get to eat those delicious peanuts. Monkey's problems continue page by page, but Monkey won't give up. Will his determination be enough or will Monkey encounter one final surprise?

A summer disappointment turns into a cross-country discovery. Robin can't believe it when her boyfriend, Chris, tells her that his parents have enrolled him in a summer program in Rome. It's their last summer together before he goes away to college, and now they won't even have that time together. It feels like the worst thing that's ever happened to her. Since Chris is leaving, Robin agrees to join her aunt and cousins on a cross-country road trip, in spite of her reservations -- she and her younger cousins have never really gotten along, and since their father's death they've become even more problematic than before. Soon the four of them are zigzagging through the West on an eye-opening journey. They explore parts of the country Robin never dreamed existed -- and she discovers inner resources she never imagined she had.

Introduces young readers to each part of our solar system, including the sun, every planet, moons, the asteroid belt, and the Kuiper belt.

A hijacked train whisks an imaginative young boy on an unforgettable adventure, in which he makes discoveries about his own family's past and a wild woman who rescued his Israeli policeman father from a vat of chocolate. 'An affecting tale of the triumph of hope over desperate circumstances ... Napoleon's upbeat, colloquial style is extremely readable and the relationship between ZigZag and Singer is treated with as much depth of perception and sensitivity as that of John Steinbeck's Lenny and George. Against a backdrop of the dregs of American society and the impotence of social welfare ZigZag is a modern day Of Mice and Men' -The Times