Best friends Jasper, Mo, and Ruby try out for their town's travel baseball team in the next installment of this action-packed, fully illustrated early chapter book series by New York Times bestselling author Andrew Maraniss!Pick a book. Grow a Reader!This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line, Branches, aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every pa...

Are you ready for the K-pop Academy?When K-pop fan Sammie wins the opportunity of a lifetime to train at a prestigious K-pop bootcamp and earn her place in the new girl band ECLIPSE, she jumps at the chance.Her new life for the next six months in LA has only just begun, and the taste of the idol life is exciting and new. But it doesn’t come without its challenges. As the training begins, the rivalry with the other girls ramps up. Drama, friendship trouble and insecurities...

Lunar New Year is just around the corner and Finn cannot wait to celebrate.With the help of his family, Finn counts down the days by tying lucky cord knots, practising for the kid’s parade and testing oolong for a traditional tea ceremony.However, with only ten more sleeps left to go until the special day arrives, will all these preparations go to plan?Packed full of joyfully festive rhyme and a celebratory gatefold, this joy pictur...

A leader-in-training at a beloved summer camp must figure out how to stop a decades-old curse in this middle grade companion novel to the “tightly paced” (Publishers Weekly) The Ghost of Spruce Point.Frankie Wilkins waits all year for her favorite thing—summers in coastal Maine. This time, she and her best friend, Parker, are Leaders-in-Training at Camp Asticou on nearby Walker Pond. For Frankie, it’s not just about proving her skills but also the...

Seven lives. Seven destinies. One universe that rewrites the rules at every step.As seven interwoven lives unfold, characters grapple with the raw forces of love, lust, anger, power and loss. Their choices shape their karma, yet destiny whispers: it was always meant to be this way. Through the prism of their struggles, Worthless Superpowers challenges the boundaries of fate and choice. Is free will our greatest superpower, or just a survival technique by the vacillating Universe? I...

A leader-in-training at a beloved summer camp must figure out how to stop a decades-old curse in this middle grade companion novel to the “tightly paced” (Publishers Weekly) The Ghost of Spruce Point.Frankie Wilkins waits all year for her favorite thing—summers in coastal Maine. This time, she and her best friend, Parker, are Leaders-in-Training at Camp Asticou on nearby Walker Pond. For Frankie, it’s not just about proving her skills but also the...

Sixth-grader Rory's story of his impossible-to-hide speech challenge and middle-school drama is perfect for fans of Sharon Draper's Out of My Mind.Rory still can't say his r's, but that's just the beginning of his troubles. First Rory's ex-best-friend Brent started hanging out with the mean lacrosse kids. But then, a terrible accident takes Brent out of school, and Rory struggles with how to feel.Rory and his new speech teacher put their h...

Would you dare to take a leap of faith to pursue your passions?For the lively spirit not to die, would you transition to live it through other stories!Everyone has a story to tell, and everyone's story is unique.This book will take you on the journey of an ordinary girl with an extraordinary story,which has transpired into this masterpiece.With every page, an unleashing of emotion, or truth, of realization and appreciation is made.

The amount of data being generated today is staggering and growing. Apache Spark has emerged as the de facto tool to analyze big data and is now a critical part of the data science toolbox. Updated for Spark 3.0, this practical guide brings together Spark, statistical methods, and real-world datasets to teach you how to approach analytics problems using PySpark, Spark's Python API, and other best practices in Spark programming.Data scientists Akash Tandon, Sandy Ryza, Uri Laserson,...

Implementing Inclusion in SchoolsSchool restructuring initiatives worldwide indicate a paradigm shift towards inclusion.  Even though inclusive education has come a long way, its effective implementation at different levels in school, as well as higher learning institutions, is a challenging and perplexing task which requires demystification. An attempt has been made in the book to connect theoretical framework with practicing strategies and global trends in inclusive education in ...

A young boy must unravel a curse to save his family’s beloved Maine motel in this spooky, “tightly paced” (Publishers Weekly) middle grade novel sure to delight fans of Whispering Pines and The Peculiar Incident on Shady Street!Twelve-year-old Parker has grown up in his family’s Home Away Inn, nestled on a wooded peninsula in Maine called Spruce Point. His best friend, Frankie, has been staying at the inn every summer for years w...

Parsons' Diseases of the Eye has served as a trusted textbook of Ophthalmology for undergraduate students for well over 100 years. It also meets the needs of postgraduate students and practising clinicians as a useful guide to basic concepts and a comprehensive compendium of knowledge for ophthalmic care.First published in 1907, the book soon became a fundamental text for students on account of its clear descriptive style and thorough coverage of the practical aspects of ocular disorders. ...