The winner of the inaugural Australian Fiction Prize, Every Wild Soul is a lyrical and compelling tale of secrets, survival, and the healing power of nature.On Tasmania's wild and remote Maria Island, eighteen-year-old Min is trying to break free from her controlling, overly protective father, the island's head ranger. Her unlikely ally is Werner, an eccentric, homeless biologist who has always taught her to care for the imperilled natural world around her - even as it set...

Tasmania. The beautiful green, rolling hills of the dairy town Mole Creek have a dark underside — a labyrinthine underworld of tunnels that stretch for countless miles, caverns the size of cathedrals and underground rivers that flood after heavy rain. The caves are dangerous places, forbidden to children. But this is Tasmania — an island at the end of the earth. Here, rules are made to be broken.For two young brothers, a hidden cave a short walk from the f...

“This rich volume is a national treasure.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)“Captivating, informative, and inspiring…Easy to follow and hard to put down.” —School Library Journal (starred review)The inspiring autobiography of NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson, who helped launch Apollo 11.As a young girl, Katherine Johnson showed an exceptional aptitude for math. In school she quickly skipped ahea...

The military is on the offensive.Refugees are flooding over the border.Aid agencies are mobilizing.Kelley Simons is about to head home after a grueling stretch in an East African field hospital. A laboratory technician, and an expert on malaria, she’s a rare commodity in humanitarian aid circles. So when the laboratory supervisor for a refugee camp on the Thai-Burmese border is injured, she is the only replacement available. Kelley has never worked in the complex cu...

When Sara Rose returns to live in her recently deceased grandmother’s Tasmanian cottage, her past and that of her mother and grandmother is ever-present. Sara’s grandmother, Nina Barsova, a Russian post-war immigrant, lovingly raised Sara in the cottage at the foot of Mt Wellington but without ever explaining why Sara’s own mother, Helena, abandoned her as a baby.Sara, a geneticist, also longs to know the identity of her father, and Helena won’t tell her. Now, estranged not only fr...

“This rich volume is a national treasure.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)“Captivating, informative, and inspiring…Easy to follow and hard to put down.” —School Library Journal (starred review)The inspiring autobiography of NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson, who helped launch Apollo 11.As a young girl, Katherine Johnson showed an exceptional aptitude for math. In school she quickly skipped ahea...

Get to know the woman who made many of NASA’s early missions possible in this fascinating, nonfiction Level 3 Ready-to-Read, part of a series of biographies about people “you should meet!”Meet Katherine Johnson, a brilliant mathematician who worked at NASA in the early 1950s until retiring in 1986. Katherine’s unparalleled calculations (done by hand) helped plan the trajectories for NASA’s Mercury and Apollo missions (including the Apollo 11 moon landing). She is s...

Sadly, we have been given bad advice about diets for centuries now. Doctors, healthcare providers, and even nutritionists have believed and taught that “fat” is the number one problem in our diets.The Ketogenic Diet will show you that eating good fats are not bad, but are, in fact, good for you. Conversely, all of those carbohydrates disrupt the metabolic system creating a crisis for our insulin and blood sugar.The Ketogenic Diet promotes healthy living at its core. It help...

Conoce a la chica que contó un camino a las estrellas. Katherine Johnson amaba los números desde el principio: escalones en el porche, estrellas en el cielo y todos los rompecabezas intermedios.Esa intrépida curiosidad la llevó de un aula de un pueblo pequeño a la NASA, donde sus cuidadosos cálculos ayudaron a los astronautas a volar de manera segura al espacio y a casa nuevamente.Katherine Johnson: La Niña Que Contó un Camino al espacio es una biografía breve e inspiradora...

Meet the girl who counted a path to the stars. Katherine Johnson loved numbers from the start-steps on the porch, stars in the sky, and every puzzle in between.That fearless curiosity carried her from a small-town classroom to NASA, where her careful calculations helped astronauts fly safely to space and home again.Katherine Johnson: The Girl Who Counted a Path to Space is a short, inspiring biography for ages 3-8.In five lively chapters, readers follow Katherine fr...

Rencontrez la fille qui a compté un chemin vers les étoiles. Katherine Johnson a adoré les chiffres dès le départ-les marches sur le porche, les étoiles dans le ciel et toutes les énigmes intermédiaires.Cette curiosité intrépide l'a transportée d'une salle de classe d'une petite ville à la NASA, où ses calculs minutieux ont aidé les astronautes à voler en toute sécurité vers l'espace et à rentrer chez eux.Katherine Johnson: La Fille qui comptait un chemin vers l'espace est ...

The contemporary study of sexuality too often finds itself at an impasse, conceptualizing sexuality either psychologically or sociologically: sexologists and psychologists have tended to point to the biological origins of sexuality underpinned by hormones, drives and, most recently, genetics; in contrast, historians and sociologists point to the social field as the defining force that shapes the meanings given to sexuality and sexual experience.Confronting the limitations and chall...