'Alfonso the Giant Anteater' follows in the clawsteps of a five year old giant anteater name Alfonso. Who lives and stars as the lead role in the show that is life on Llanos in Venezuela.Alfonso takes the reader on a journey through his day to day life in Llanos. This colorful character clearly sees himself as the star of the area. He takes the readers with him to search for termites; he introduces them to a variety of creatures who call Llanos their home. This includes eight capyb...

No strangers to frontier conditions, the family used their expertise as miners, surveyors, land speculators, and lawyers to erect cabins, stake their claims, and survey and lay plans for a new town. From these experiences they prepared a set of laws -- in

A unique collection of the finest Golden Age mysteries – puzzling whodunnits that have entertained and delighted readers for centuries.With Edgar Award-winning Otto Penzler as guide, delve into an irresistible collection of the finest Golden Age American whodunits, including household names and master storytellers, such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ellery Queen and Mary Roberts Rinehart, as well as

It's hard being a pre-teen girl; it's even harder when you find out you're a mermaid!This is a fast-paced coming-of-age comedy novel that has adventure, mystery, and a touch of romance by Hélène Boudreau, nominated for a Canadian children's choice award for her middle grade novel ACADIAN STAR.If she hadn't been so clueless, she might have seen it coming. But really, who expects to get into a relaxing bathtub after a stressful day of shoppin...

The first handbook to focus on the asymmetric synthesis of different types of three-membered rings.The outstanding and experienced authors have an excellent international reputation and cover cyclopropanes, epoxides and aziridines as well as chiral oxaziridines in equal measure. To this end, they describe in detail different synthetic approaches starting with chiral substrates as well as the application of chiral metal- or organocatalysts. Furthermore, methods for the kinetic resolu...

The Silver Ring Mystery by Helen Wells is a classic mystery novel aimed at a young audience, reflecting the genre's appeal in the mid-20th century. The story is part of the popular series featuring the character of Cherry Ames, a young nurse and amateur sleuth.In this installment, Cherry Ames encounters a mysterious case involving a valuable silver ring. The plot revolves around the discovery and investigation of this ring, which becomes the focal point of the story's intrigue. As Cherry d...

Gwen, a twenty-four-year-old librarian, lives with her boyfriend, Nathan, in a small house, with all the accoutrements of modern living any girl could ask for. When her father dies, it's left to Gwen to fulfill her father's wishes and scatter his ashes on the top of Glastonbury Tor in Somerset, England. Stepping into the ruined church tower, a gold ring catches her eye—a ring embossed with a dragon emblem. She's snatched into the dangerous world of the Dark Ages, ...

The dull thud and the clanging shut of the iron framed doors never fails to send a shiver down the spine of the condemned.As the prisoner’s eyes start to adjust to the dim light of the solitary candle, he can see the small cot in the corner of the room, a table and chair and the iron bars of the window high above the dark, damp wall. He is given some paper and a pencil, a bible, and a little cake of soap.He should not be there long as he knows the date and the time of his e...

First zit. First crush. First...mermaid's tail? Fourteen-year-old Jade feels like a freak-of-nature when she finally gets her first period while trying on an XL tankini at the mall. It gets worse when she runs into handsome Luke Martin in the feminine products aisle while her dad Googles 'menstruation' on his BlackBerry. But 'freak-of-nature' takes on a whole new meaning when raging hormones bring on another metamorphosis - complete with scales and a tail. When Jade learns she's inherited ...

Remembering the woman known as Pocahontas and the myths surrounding her down to the present dayThis collection of essays is the first of its kind to focus exclusively on the woman known as Pocahontas. Contributions from established leaders in the field offer innovative perspectives on the life of Matoaka/Pocahontas, especially on the creation and perpetuation of her cultural image in the seventeenth century and beyond—and on how new archival research, interdiscipli...

**Brought to you by Penguin.A unique collection of the finest Golden Age mystiers - puzzling whodunnits that have entertained and delighted readers for centuries.**With Edgar Award-winning Otto Penzler as guide, delve into an irresistible collection of the finest Golden Age American whodunits, including household names and master storytellers, such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ellery Queen and Mary Roberts Rinehart, as well as Ring Lardner, Melville Davisson Post and Helen Reill...

Vicki Barr is a popular mystery series for girls published from 1947 to 1964. Helen Wells wrote volumes #1-4 and 9-16, and Julie Campbell Tatham, the creator of Trixie Belden, wrote volumes #5-8. Wells returned to write the series, but the last volume, The Brass Idol Mystery, though credited to Wells, is believed to have been written by Walter B. Gibson, the creator and writer of "The Shadow" and sometime author of the Biff Brewster series for boys."The Silver Ring Mystery" is the ...