Were there cannibals in Anglo-Saxon times? What's the stinkiest fruit you can eat? To find out the revolting answers to these questions, and many more, just look inside! Discover gruesome facts about foul food, horrid history, grotty bodies, scary science and appalling animals.ABOUT THE SERIES: Big Ideas! is a dynamic, high-energy "fun fact" series for children aged seven and up, illustrated throughout with humorous cartoons. Packed with surprising facts, stats, an...

Seventeen-year old Maura O’Donnell’s strange eyes and love of the stars make her an outcast in her small village. When a toddler dies in her care, Maura flees the child’s father to a mysterious city known for its refuge. Appearances lie and she’s caught in a snare laid by a supernatural enemy who lusts after her ability to see the unseen. With only five days before her trial, it’s a race to discern friend versus foe. What Maura rejects in herself is key to averting a diabolical plot. The s...

Take a journey deep into South Texas, where Lucille Thomas Kruse grows up as a young girl in Falfurrias during the 1920s and 1930s.The Thomas familys fate is determined when Grandfather Thomas moves all his belongings and farm animals, including his beehives, to Falfurrias in an immigrant railroad car. In letters from 1907, he praises the lush and fertile land with fl owing artesian water.It also turns out to be a great place to grow up, and Kruse recalls life as it used to...

The Promise of an AngelInterrupting the ordered routine of the Mecosta County Amish settlement, an angelic visitor awakens Judith to a new faith.Brush of Angel's WingsHe doesn't plan to stay Amish. She doesn't have a plan. Then an angel draws their hearts toward God . . . and each other.An Angel by Her SideKatie has lived through tragedy and heartache. But with the angel El...

He doesn’t plan to stay Amish. She doesn’t have a plan.Then an angel draws their hearts toward God . . . and each other.A buggy-racing champion, a hardworking field-hand, and a terrible cook, Rachel Hartzler does not fit her Amish community’s standards for an eligible bride. Hurt by their rejection and still grieving the loss of her brother, Rachel is ready for change.She’s not, however, ready for Jordan Engles. Rachel’s father hire...

Problem-based learning (PBL) represents a widely recommended best practice that facilitates both student engagement with challenging content and students' ability to utilize that content in a more flexible manner to support problem-solving. This edited volume includes research that focuses on examples of successful models and strategies for facilitating preservice and practicing teachers in implementing PBL practices in their current and future classrooms in a variety of K-12 settings and ...

The introduction of plant and animal agriculture represents one of the most important milestones in human evolution. It contributed to the development of cities, alphabets, new technologies, and ultimately to civilizations, but it has also presented a threat to both human health and the environment. Bringing together research from a range of fields including anthropology, archaeology, ecology, economics, entomology, ethnobiology, genetics and geography, this book addresses key questions re...

Irishman Doug Monahan runs a fencing crew outside the south Texas town of Twin Wells, digging post-holes and stringing red painted barbed wire for ranchers as protection against wandering stock, rustlers and land hungry thugs.Monahan's fencing operation is opposed by Captain Andrew Rinehart, a former Confederate officer and an old-school open range baron of the huge R Cross spread.With his brutal foreman, Archer Spann, assigned to the violent work, Rinehart wages a barbed w...

When former cattle man Dundee wanders into the town of Titusville, he's broke, tired and itching for a fight. Instead, he gets a job offer...from none other than the top man in town, John Titus.Titus recruits Dundee to find out who's rustling his extensive herd of cattle. But for Titus, it isn't enough that Dundee find the missing cattle. He wants to place the blame on a specific person...Blue Roan Hardesty, a one-time friend turned sworn enemy of the powerful Titus clan. All Titus...