Chérie Witkowski is twelve, and she doesn't want to turn thirteen this year. This is the year, 1968, that everything -- absolutely everything-seems to be changing.
Although he is on the way to becoming a junior tennis champion, Tim loses interest in the sport when he starts making friends while playing flag football and develops an interest in Sara, a girl whom Mike the football star also likes.
A 2020 Caldecott Honor Book From the New York Times best-selling author behind The Quiet Book comes a mindful contemplation on the many ways nature affects our everyday lives, even when we’re stuck inside.
Rama and Lakshmana gaped as scale and horn and claw and fang burned into a tiny pile of white ash. They were still staring when the holy man finished his prayers and rose. He scattered the ash with his dusty foot and then strode across ...
“ Frome . ” “ Where is it ? ” After a few minutes they found it in Somersetshire , south of Bath . “ Ah , ” Willy said , “ now , Bath was an important town in Jane Austen's day . ” " I suppose it was , " Mrs. Rose said . “ Frome .
“I'm going out now,” he said, smoothing the front of his Armani black-label slacks and carefully retucking his custommade shirt. “My intention is to come home tonight, but l really can't be sure how I will feel.
From the New York Times best-selling author behind The Quiet Book comes a mindful contemplation on the many ways nature affects our everyday lives, perfect for fans of Joyce Sidman and Julie Fogliano.
Two research analysts describe how companies can truly understand the real needs of their customers by seeing a business through their eyes and enforcing the concept of “customer service” through every facet of the company, from finance ...
A look at one man's belated coming of age that's equally funny, earnest, romantic, and lamenting, Doug Cooper’s debut novel explores the modern search for responsibility and identity, showing through the eyes of Brad Shepherd how ...
In the jungle outside the growing city of Chandigarh, twelve-year-old street child Ram discovers a hidden rock garden, befriends its creator--a factory worked named Nek--and tries to save Nek's garden when it's threatened with destruction.
He's the one upper I think I can trust. But then we learned that there's outside and then there is Outside. And something from Outside wants In.
The answers to these and many more questions can be found in this lift-the-flap body book. Clare Smallman's simple, clear text combine with John Shelley's lively illustrations to make this a perfect introduction to how the body works.
... more with the great game of imperial rivalry than with the internal dynamics of its once fragile union of states. ... 2008); Brian Schoen, The Fragile Fabric of Union: Cotton, Federal Politics, and the Global Origins of the Civil ...
This volume presents narratives of women academics that express situations of exclusion contextualized within the authors' disciplines in order to explore the reasons that higher education has few women leaders.--Provided by publisher.
Stunning computer animation combined with thorough explanations in the spoken text and the accompanying four-color booklet, Making Waves, classify this film as "educational entertainment." "The technical work could hardly be improved upon.
Classic Sarah Ellis, this novel is smart, rich, engaging and insightful.
Peter Hain has always spoken his mind. So he does in this book. Here he tells his story as an outsider turned insider: anti-apartheid militant to Cabinet minister, serving twelve years in Labour's government between May 1997 and May 2010.
The Oral History of Guido Calabresi Norman I. Silber. NORMAN I. SILBER OUTSIDE IN The Oral History of Guido Calabresi VOLUME 1 1932-1982 OXFORD OUTSIDE IN Volume I - 1932–1982 OUTSIDE IN The Oral.
ROCKPORT From indoor pools to winter gardens , spas and gyms to garages in living rooms , Outside In showcases different ways of combining the elements of nature , sports , and leisure inside the home . This richly illustrated volume ...
By opening up new historical terrain and rejecting a vision of outsiders as merely victims of American educational policy, the book has important implications for contemporary social and educational issues.