[Scholastic Reader Level 2] Based upon the award-winning TV series, Magic School Bus Scholastic Readers make learning an adventure! Ms. Frizzle's class is taking a special nighttime hayride to learn about the moon. But when a cloudy sky spoils the trip, everyone piles onto the Magic School Bus for a better view. You can bet this adventure will be anything but ordinary!
Author
Joanna Cole, who also wrote under the pseudonym B. J. Barnet, was an author of children’s books who teaches science. She is most famous as the author of The Magic School Bus series of children's books. Joanna Cole wrote over 250 books ranging from her first book Cockroach to her famous series Magic School Bus. Cole was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in nearby East Orange. She loved science as a child, and had a teacher she says was a little like Ms. Frizzle. She attended the University of Massachusetts and Indiana University before graduating from the City College of New York with a B.A. in psychology. After some graduate education courses, she spent a year as a librarian in a Brooklyn elementary school. Cole subsequently became a letters correspondent at Newsweek, and then a senior editor for Doubleday Books for Young Readers.
