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Cheating Destiny : Living With Diabetes
Probuditi!
School Library Journal Review: Starred Review. PreS-Gr 3?Van Allsburg's latest story opens with a spider and a scream coming from Trudy (offstage), caused by an older brother's prank. Although Calvin's mother is none too pleased with her son, she honors his birthday with tickets for a magician/hypnotist. When the boy and his friend witness the […]
Cheating Destiny : Living With Diabetes, America's Biggest Epidemic
Publisher Weekly Review: Hirsch, a type 1 diabetic, agonized when his three-year-old son began exhibiting the symptoms of diabetes. More, he was prompted to take a look at diabetes and how it is treated in this country and the possibility of finding a cure for this ravaging disease. What he finds isn't always encouraging. Skillfully […]
The Lives of Rocks : Stories
Publisher Weekly Review: Starred Review. Nature is as much a character in this sterling collection of 10 short stories as are any of the oddly off-center but otherwise endearing people who inhabit it. Bass writes with concern about the environment (Caribou Rising), and that same passion infuses his fiction (The Hermit's Story). In "Titan" a […]
Horns and Wrinkles
Publisher Weekly Review: Starred Review. Bullies beware! In the town of Blue Wing, Minn., on the banks of the Mississippi River, 12-year-old Claire watches with fascination as her mean cousin Duke grows a rhinoceros horn after throwing Claire and her pet turtle off a bridge. Debut novelist Helgerson, through the heroine's first-person narration, does a […]
Jane Goodall : the Woman Who Redefined Man
Library Journal: Jane Goodall's discovery in 1960 that chimpanzees in the wild use crude tools meant that ability could no longer be considered a unique and defining characteristic of human beings. Today, as a writer and speaker, she is something akin to a cult icon. As her colleague and former collaborator (Visions of Caliban: On […]
Team Moon : How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 On the Moon
School Library Journal Review: Gr 5 Up?In infectiously hyperbolic prose that's liberally interspersed with quotes and accompanied by sheaves of period photos, Thimmesh retraces the course of the space mission that landed an actual man, on the actual Moon. It's an oft-told tale, but the author tells it from the point of view not of […]