Shiny Happy People
The Grimmelings
NFL Moments
Pluto : a Dwarf Planet
Children's Literature The "Early Bird Astronomy" series introduces beginning astronomers to the planets in five chapters of simple text augmented by lots of pictures, many in bright colors on black backgrounds. The book begins by showing Pluto, formerly the smallest planet, in the night sky and describing its discovery in 1930. Chapter two places Pluto […]
The Red Pyramid
Publishers Weekly This fun, if formulaic, start to the Kane Chronicles series opens with a signature Riordan move: an explosion. Siblings Carter and Sadie have been living apart since their mother?s mysterious death. On Christmas Eve, archeologist Julius Kane and son Carter, 14, show up in England for one of their two days a year […]
Pollution
Part of the Issues That Concern You series.
Activism
From the Publisher Students must often make informed decisions about scrious issues that will affect the course of their lives. Smoking, drunk driving, and violence are just a few of these challenging issues. Focusing on topics of special concern to students, the Issues That Concern You series helps make these complex issues less intimidating and […]
The Milky Way
Mammoths and Mastodons : Titans of the Ice Age
The Washington Post – Abby McGanney Nolan: Although the animals are long extinct, Bardoe makes clear their relevance, not least to the survival of today's African and Asian elephants, and offers up plenty of intriguing sidebars and illustrations.
Dinosaur Mountain
Publishers Weekly This dynamic book brings readers into the ?Bone Wars? of the late 19th and early 20th century, focusing on Earl Douglass, a fossil expert whose search for ?something big? made him one of the era's most successful ?bone hunters.? Ray's sweeping scenes of the dry Utah landscape capture the excitement of the hunt, […]