Books from Harcourt Brace

  • Where Is the Green Sheep? / Donde Esta La Oveja Verde?
    By Mem Fox, Judy Horacek

    "Here is the blue sheep. Ésta es la oveja azul. But where is the green sheep? ¿Pero dónde está la oveja verde? The search for the green sheep is on in this bilingual board book edition.

  • Voices from the Reconstruction Years, 1865-1877
    By Glenn M. Linden

    VOICES FROM THE RECONSTRUCTION YEARS, 1865-1877 is a collection of twenty-seven first-hand accounts from those who lived through this turbulent period in American history. Newspaper articles, personal letters, and diary...

  • Between Friends: The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy, 1949-1975
    By Mary McCarthy, Hannah Arendt

    They first met in New York: Mary McCarthy, an American writer, and Hannah Arendt, a philosopher who had fled Nazi Germany. They soon became friends and began a remarkable twenty-five-year...

  • The Dog who Cried Woof
    By Nancy Coffelt

    Ernie the dog barks so much that when he tries to warn people about a sneaky yellow cat stealing his food, nobody pays any attention.

  • Classroom Connections: Understanding and Using Cooperative Learning
    By Philip C. Abrami

    Classroom Connections: Understanding and Using Cooperative Learning

  • The Reader's Companion to South Africa
    By Alan Ryan

    Mark Twain, Jan Morris, P. J. O’Rourke, and Michael Palin are just a few of the contributors to this provocative armchair tour of South Africa, which takes us from Capetown...

  • The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
    By Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of Humanities Harold Bloom

    Harold Bloom explores our Western literary tradition by concentrating on the works of twenty-six authors central to the Canon. He argues against ideology in literary criticism; he laments the loss...

  • Algebra 2 with Trigonometry: Practice Book
    By Coxford

    Algebra 2 with Trigonometry: Practice Book

  • The Odyssey of a Manchurian
    By Belle Yang

    After the defeat of Japan in World War II, China is plunged into a civil war between Communist and Nationalist forces. The old and respected Manchurian House of Yang is...

  • Frog Went A-Courtin'
    By John Langstaff, Feodor Rojankovsky

    Illustrates the well-known American folk song about the courtship and marriage of the frog and the mouse.

  • Maigret in Holland
    By Georges Simenon

    Inspector Maigret arrives in the prim, toylike town of Delfzijl to investigate the murder of Conrad Popinga, a teacher. Almost immediately the French sleuth is presented the floor plans of...

  • Make Gentle the Life of this World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy
    By Robert F. Kennedy

    Whether written in the tumult of his years as Attorney General, in anguished moments of grief, or during the exciting months of his last campaign, Robert F. Kennedy's words are...

  • Spelling, Grade 6 Consumable: Harcourt School Publishers Spelling
    By Richard Madden, Thorsten Robert Carlson

    Spelling workbooks for elementary school children.

  • Learning to Live in the World: Earth Poems
    By William Stafford

    This collection of poems by National Book Award winner William Stafford reflects his struggles with the world as well as his delight in and respect for the earth. In straightforward...

  • Pra&act Bk Te Ven Conmigo! En Camino 1b
    By Holt Rinehart & Winston

    Pra&act Bk Te Ven Conmigo! En Camino 1b

  • Return to Paradise
    By Breyten Breytenbach

    South Africa heads toward majority rule, yet Breytenbach is far from optimistic about its future. He sees a civil war raging and the land awash in blood. "[This] book...is fueled...

  • Snow
    By Betsy Howie

    In the dead of winter, her marriage over, a young woman leaves New York City with her two cats and drives north with little more than a few cans of...

  • Skates
    By Mick Inkpen

    Even with his new in-line skates Tiger is a terrible skater, but Kipper is good and, with a little practice, so is Pig.

  • Call of the River: Writings and Photographs
    By Page Stegner

    The river calls to us, beckons us to sit along its banks, to cast a fly and lure an elusive fish, to canoe its shallows and shoot its rapids. The...

  • More Light: Father & Daughter Poems : a Twentieth-century American Selection
    By Jason Shinder

    Collected here for the first time is a wondrous array of over 80 contemporary American voices who all have something to say about the relationship between fathers and daughters. Contributors...