What would you be if your finger bones grew so long that they reached your feet? You'd be a bat! What if you had no leg bones but kept your arm bones? You'd be a whale, a dolphin, or a porpoise! This entertaining picture book will keep readers guessing as they learn about how our skeletons are like—and unlike—those of other animals.
Brothers Oren and Josh disappear into the woods. Only Oren comes out. Twenty years later, the mystery of what happened to Josh is going to be exposed, and somebody is finally sending him home-bone by bone.
FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN WHITE AND BLACK in 1950s Tennessee. Tony Johnston draws on her own childhood memories to limn a portrait of a sensitive and compassionate boy fighting for a friendship his father forbids.
Continues the saga of anti-hero E.J. Watson, an entrepreneurial sugar-cane farmer in the Everglades, exile in Indian territory, devoted husband, distant father, and allegedly, a cold-blooded killer. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.
We heard things." In this profoundly moving novel, Fae Myenne Ng takes readers into the hidden heart of San Francisco's Chinatown, to the world of one family's honor, their secrets, and the lost bones of a "paper father.
All the dirt and grime that had made the Spark look like some plain old rock had flaked away, and the full intensity of the light shone through. The flash was blinding; he blinked away the colored spots that floated before his eyes.
Chappie is a punked-out teenager rejected by his mother and abusive stepfather.
Repeatedly I am surprised by joy when I see the beloved objects looking so new and so elegant in their new location . ... Within an hour , I was enjoying a telephone chat , felt a thud on my So we live , forever saying farewell . head ...
So I devised a surefire scheme : Malcolm would become the junior Jackie Robinson . He'd be so good , so graceful , so fleet , so pantherine out in the field , nobody could deny him . Then , when Malcolm was successful beyond all dreams ...
The adventure starts when cousins Fone Bone, Phoney Bone, and Smiley Bone are run out of Boneville and later get separated and lost in the wilderness, meeting monsters and making friends as they attempt to return home.
Join author Sally M. Walker as she works alongside the scientists investigating colonial-era graves near Jamestown, Virginia, as well as other sites in Maryland.