In a world without air, what would you do to BREATHE? Three friends risk everything in this novel of danger, longing, and glimmering hope.
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Follow the king penguin as it dives deep into the ocean to feed on squid and lantern fish. Trace the life cycle of this bird from molting to mating and protecting its young. Learn how the king penguin survives in the cold waters just north of the Polar Front.
If you took everything that was coolest about James Bond, got rid of the foolishness about girls and martinis that fifth grade boys have no patience for anyway, and then, in a stroke of genius, got rid of James Bond, too, leaving just the villains, back when they were about thirteen, when they were just getting started, then you’d have “H.I.V.E. The Higher Institute of Villainous Education.”
In this first volume of “The Annabelle Book Series”, Annabelle teaches young readers how to say the Alphabet in French.
“Each story has a life all its own, and sometimes you just have to follow it to whatever places it takes you—even if those places make you uncomfortable. But my novel is not just about sexual abuse. It’s also about how we confront the problem of evil and the hells we create inside ourselves.”
Part of Free Spirit Publishing’s Bully Free Kids line, the Weird series tells the story of an ongoing case of bullying from three third graders’ perspectives.
Good news, Rabbit and Mouse are going on a picnic. Bad news, it is starting to rain. Good news, Rabbit has an umbrella. So begins this clever story about two friends with very different dispositions.
School has started. Great news for some kids (a rare and exotic variety), bad news for some (more common), and mixed news for most. This post isn’t about a book or a series of books. It’s about making a place to be, well, Somebody: Alex Rider, Otto Malpense, Jack Gantos, Jasper Dash, you name it.
Like most people I knew the general outlines of Helen Keller’s life, and I was familiar with the iconic moment at the water pump. But I knew very little of Annie Sullivan, or the details of her actual teaching methods. What I found was astonishing – so astonishing I wanted to share it with young readers.
There is a 100 year-old hero living in the deep blue sea of the Pacific Northwest. She is a 7,000-pound great grandmother and an awesome athlete. Meet Granny, an orca (or killer whale), the hero portrayed by a whale expert in a new children’s picture book, Granny’s Clan: A Tale of Wild Orcas.