Moto and Me : My Year As a Wildcat's Foster Mom
Moto and Me tells the remarkable firsthand story of wildlife photographer Suzi Eszterhas’s care for an orphaned baby serval—a small, spotted wildcat—in Kenya. When a grass fire separates the serval from his family, a ranger asks Suzi, who is living in a bush camp and is skilled with animals, to be the serval’s foster mom.
Koala Hospital
Kirkus Reviews 2015-07-15 This book, abundant with color photographs, takes readers into the world's only hospital solely for koalas. Both a table of contents and brightly colored banners throughout the book help readers home in on their particular interests. However, the text is short and accessible enough so that the book can be read in […]
Mathemagic! : Number Tricks
Kirkus Reviews: Stun friends and family members by guessing secret numbers and doing painless long division. Dice and card tricks and finger multiplication are among the fascinating tricks potential mathemagicians will learn to perform. But Colgan goes beyond the ordinary by giving an in-depth, easily understandable explanation of the math behind each trick, as well […]
Totally Human : Why We Look and Act the Way We Do
The Washington Post – Abby McGanney Nolan Cynthia Pratt Nicolson makes young readers think about actions we take for granted…The text explains scientific concepts with concision and wit…Each action described is accompanied by a playful illustration…
Case Closed? : nine mysteries unlocked by modern science
Junior Library Guild selection.
Flowers In the Rain & Other Stories
The Acadians
Off to War
Kirkus Reviews:With 13,500 Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan and one million American military personnel in Iraq, millions of children on the home front and in the war zones have been affected. As Ellis says, "In any war, it is always the children who are the biggest losers-children whose voices are rarely heard." In an oral history […]
Suite Fran?aise
FROM THE PUBLISHER The first English publication of Suite Fran?aise will be a major event. Suite Fran?aise is an extraordinary novel of life under Nazi occupation – recently discovered and published 64 years after the author's death in Auschwitz. In the early 1940s, Ir?ne N?mirovsky was a successful writer living in Paris. But she was […]
My Childhood Under Fire: a Sarajevo Diary
Junior Library Guild selection. Nadja Halilbegovich could be any twelve-year-old: she enjoys school, singing, and being with friends in Sarajevo. One spring morning in 1992 school is cancelled; the next day sniper fire and explosions drive Nadja, her family and neighbors to the basement. The siege of Sarajevo has begun.