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In this poignant middle grade contemporary debut that New York Times bestselling author Katherine Applegate calls “by turns heartbreaking and heart-healing,” Evan Griffith beautifully captures all the tenderness and uncertainty that come with caring for family, friends, and the natural world.Peter and his best friend, Tommy, have a goal for their last summer before middle school: finish their Discovery Journal, a catalog of the wildlife around their Florid...

The Trouble With Heroesmeets Murray Out of Water in this empowering middle grade novel-in-verse about a boy who discovers that caring for a small life (a cat!) can help him steady his own.Ollie calls his panic attacks storms, and lately they’ve been picking up speed. With his meteorologist mom away chasing real weather in Oklahoma, his dad sinking into silence, and a bully making school difficult, Ollie is desperate to take cover....

Follow a baby alligator through a lush wetland world teeming with chirps, croaks, ripples, flutters, and an abundance of ecological marvels in this lyrical nonfiction picture book.When we think of a swamp, we typically think of muggy, sweltering heat, swarms of bugs and birds, and boggy, clammy, spongy wetness. But for a baby gator, it’s home sweet home.In the heart of the wetlands, frogs leap, herons glide, cypress trees tower, and hidden creatures stir be...

The Detective has been a mainstay of fiction writing ever since we can remember.Their deductive powers, their intuition and fleet-footed grasp of every detail can often turn the unlikeliest situation, or bunch of red herrings, into a breakthrough to capture even the most ingenious and dastardly of criminals.In this series our classic authors explore not only various themes, such as Occult Detectives, Female Detectives, Curious Crimes and a whole host more, but also bring a ...

The Trouble With Heroesmeets Murray Out of Water in this empowering middle grade novel-in-verse about a boy who discovers that caring for a small life (a cat!) can help him steady his own.Ollie calls his panic attacks storms, and lately they’ve been picking up speed. With his meteorologist mom away chasing real weather in Oklahoma, his dad sinking into silence, and a bully making school difficult, Ollie is desperate to take cover....

Mardy and Olaus Murie fell in love in--and with--Alaska. Then set out on an adventure across the Arctic for Olaus's work as a biologist, encountering the beauty and danger of the wilds along the way. They learned from Indigenous communities to appreciate the interconnectedness of all living creatures and understood that the way humans were moving in on wild land was threatening the natural world. So they shifted the focus of their work to conservation, fighting to protect the land and anim...

From the acclaimed author of Manatee Summer comes a poignant story about a girl who learns to lay down roots as she’s drawn into a fight over a local grove of trees that’s in danger of being torn down. Perfect for fans of Hoot and Operation Redwood.Holly Foster knows that nothing lasts—not hometowns or schools, or even family. It’s just safer to keep herself uninvolved. So when she’s sent to spend part of the summer with her uncle, she knows better than to get attached to him…or an...

The curiosity, drive, and perseverance of the nineteenth-century woman scientist who pioneered the use of aquariums to study ocean life are celebrated in this gorgeous, empowering picture book.How did a nineteenth-century dressmaker revolutionize science? Jeanne Power was creative: she wanted to learn about the creatures that swim beneath the ocean waves, so she built glass tanks and changed the way we study underwater life forever. Jeanne Power was gr...

In this poignant middle grade contemporary debut that New York Times bestselling author Katherine Applegate calls “by turns heartbreaking and heart-healing,” Evan Griffith beautifully captures all the tenderness and uncertainty that come with caring for family, friends, and the natural world.Peter and his best friend, Tommy, have a goal for their last summer before middle school: finish their Discovery Journal, a catalog of the wildlife around their Florid...

While incorporating digital technologies into the classroom has offered new ways of teaching and learning into educational processes, it is essential to take a look at how the digital shift impacts teachers, school administration, and curriculum development. Academic Knowledge Construction and Multimodal Curriculum Development presents practical conversations with philosophical and theoretical concerns regarding the use of digital technologies in the educational process. This book will als...

Step back into the magic of a familiar world.After a venomous fight with her best friend, Lily Evans is dreading a lonely summer back in Cokeworth with only her sister Petunia for company. However this summer and her sixth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry have a transformative effect on Lily, shaking her all of her preconceived beliefs about her classmates down to their roots. Through a year of adventures, she even begins to see James Potter and his marauder frien...

This is a volume of poems by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. The final poem of this volume is an epic narrative poem glorifying the life and deeds of George Armstrong Custer (1839-1876), who served in the American Civil War and the American Indian Wars.