Come on, kids: grab a hammer, step up to the workbench, and get ready to measure, saw, drill, and make cool things!"Larson understands that children are extremely capable, and Wood Shop is the ideal book to introduce skills that will last a lifetime.” —Timothy Dahl, cofounder of Built by KidsWood Shop is an exciting introduction for today’s kids to an age-old tradition: building with wood....

When Meredith visits Murky Manor there is more mystery than just the fog surrounding the house. She discovers an old cup that affects the weather. Before she can figure it out, others become interested in the cup. There are creatures that appear to be made of mist and a strange girl who claims she is from another world and the cup belongs to her.

Cody's friend, Gen, thinks she spotted Bigfoot living in the woods. The whole school hears about it, and they aren't going to let them live it down. When Cody and Gen get caught passing notes in class, everyone gets stuck with an extra assignment. Cody's dad tries to help him by sharing his password to an experimental program, EGOR. The program works great for the assignment. But then a blogger, named George Roge, appears on the Internet. George believes in Bigfoot. In fact, he's tracking ...

Scott just wanted his fifteen minutes of fame before high school. He figured that the only thing standing between him and success was the junkyard fence. But he soon discovered that fame can be tricky. The old junkyard held more than just rusting cars and forgotten memories.

Unexpected things happen during Kraze Week. Not just at Kraze Middle School, but around town. A science project rocket misfires, an experimental hoverboard is discovered, and an old computer attracts the attention of authorities. It's no time to let down your guard. You don't want to find yourself in the Kraze spotlight. You have to stay vigilant.

In this collection of short writings, we have captured snapshots of our worlds, both the real and the imaginary. They blend humor, a bit of serious reflection, and some pure whimsical fantasy. We hope you find them entertaining, encouraging, and maybe even thought provoking.

The end of the Pleistocene era brought dramatic environmental changes to small bands of humans living in North America: changes that affected subsistence, mobility, demography, technology, and social relations. The transition they made from Paleoindian (Pleistocene) to Archaic (Early Holocene) societies represents the first major cultural shift that took place solely in the Americas. This event—which manifested in ways and at times much more varied than often supposed—set the stage for the...

The first coaching guide specially designed for home visitors and their supervisors, this groundbreaking book answers the call for more and better training in early childhood home visiting programs. The expert authors developed this guide for two critical purposes: to give supervisors actionable strategies as they coach home visitors, and to give home visitors principles and practices for coaching families of children from birth to 5 years.Featuring a who’s who of more than 25 inte...

While waiting in the principal's office, Toby finds a book that lets him travel to another world where he makes new friends. At home he still has to deal with bullies at school, a mysterious librarian, and more trips to the principal. Then he discovers he's not the only one who knows about the book. His new friends need his help. Can they keep the book from falling into the wrong hands?

Saint Margaret of Cortona is the light of the Third Order of Fracis. Such is the theme of the most extensive biography of any Franciscan Tertiary in the Middle Ages. Margaret’s extraordinary career brings the historian closer to the early development of the Franciscans and the Order of Penance; it tells us much about how women saints were described, and about how civic cults of saints emerged. Another window, although a smaller one, opens to the tensions between the Franciscan Community an...

Telah is a gnome, and pixie parties in her garden and garments woven from light are not uncommon. But even her first Harvest Gala can't distract Telah from her grandfather's book. It tells of his travels to a giant world. When she and her friend Travis find a secret door, they enter our world and are followed by pixies. They find adventure and danger, but can they find their way home?

Jason squeezed the old silver coin and wondered if there really could be a hidden treasure. If only he could find enough money so his family wouldn't have to move. Time was running out. Then he found an old treasure map and a riddle that pointed to Haunted Cave. But there was more in the cave than just bats. Strange visitors from the past roamed the dark passageways.