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The Watcher In The Woods
by Florence Engle Randall[From the back cover:] "Jan had felt it the very first day, walking up to the door of the old house. She had known the watcher was there as they knocked and waited for old Mrs. Carstairs to come. And the little old woman, glancing at the woods, had known it was there, too. No one wanted to discuss it, certainly not mom or dad. Then mirrors were mysteriously broken, and 10-year-old Ellie began hearing strange songs and receiving even stranger messages. Jan couldn't explain it, but she was afraid. It hadn't been easy for Jan, moving to this new town and starting a new school when she was almost 16. Meeting Mark seemed to make it better, but would he believe her if she told him about the watcher--the watcher in the woods?"
Prentice Hall Mathematics: Course 2
by Randall I. Charles Judith C. Mark Illingwroth Darwin Mills Andy ReevesThe authors designed Prentice Hall Mathematics to help students make sense of the mathematics they learn.
Children's Stories from Myths & Legends: Classic Tales From Around The World
by Ronne Randall Graham HowellsMyths are the oldest stories of all, they help us to explain the world around us and to make sense of our place within it. The myths and legends in this book come from many different cultures all over the world. They are a gift to us from our most distant ancestors, for us to enjoy and treasure for all time. Retold for young children, and beautifully illustrated throughout, this book is perfect for reading together or for new readers to try themselves.
Alexander Hamilton's Economic Plan: Solving Problems In America's New Economy (Primary Sources Of Life In The New American Nation Ser.)
by Ryan P. RandolphAlexander Hamilton's Economic Plan: Solving Problems in America's New Economy
Before the Batman (The Batman): The all-new, exciting story inspired by the film!
by Random HouseBefore The Batman™: An Original Movie Novel—An exciting new story inspired by the all-new motion picture The Batman, which swings into theaters in theaters on March 4, 2022! Warner Bros.&’s The Batman releases in theaters March 4, 2022, bringing with it all the adventure and action of one of the most popular Super Heroes in the world. We all know that billionaire Bruce Wayne is secretly Gotham City&’s vigilante detective and protector, The Batman—but what road led him there? Find out in Before The Batman: An Original Movie Novel, which includes an exciting original story of Bruce Wayne's early adventures on his way to becoming The Batman! This novel features an eight-page full-color insert and a pull-out poster!
DC League of Super-Pets (DC League of Super-Pets Movie): Includes 8-page full-color insert!
by Random HouseThe complete retelling of DC League of Super-Pets—just in time for the DC League of Super-Pets movie to hit theaters in Summer 2022!Whenever the people . . . and pets! . . . of Metropolis are in danger, Krypto the Super-Dog flies in to save the day! Fans ages 8 to 12 of the new hit film will love this complete retelling that features a full-color 8-page insert!
Start It Up: The Complete Teen Business Guide to Turning Your Passions Into Pay
by Kenrya RankinDo you have a passion you want to turn into pay? Looking for a way to make some extra cash in high school? Start It Up shows teens how to turn their hobbies and talents into full-fledged businesses. Inside you'll find comprehensive and fun information on how to know what is the best business for you, start a company, sell your product, and let the world know about it! Whether your business is baking, dog walking, website design, or house painting, Start It Up offers the A-Z on getting it going and making it successful. Also featured are quotes from other successful teen entrepreneurs who turned their dreams into dollars.
Daughter of the Mountains
by Louise RankinMomo has always wanted a Lhasa terrier--a dog like the ones the Buddhist priests hold sacred in their temples. And her dream is realized when a trader brings Pempa to her parents' tea house. But after a band of robbers steals the valuable dog and quickly escapes with him into the mountains, Momo is determined to catch them and recover her beloved Pempa. To do so, she must follow the Great Trade Route across the mountains--a path that most people avoid, and which will surely put her life at risk. Momo undertakes a dangerous journey from the mountains of Tibet to the city of Calcutta, in search of her stolen dog Pempa.<P><P> A Newbery Honor Book
My Sister the Creep (My Sister #3)
by Candice RansomJackie comes to terms with her older sister Sharon and herself when Sharon leaves home to attend cosmetology school. "With sisters like Sharon, who needs enemies? Now that Jackie's older sister, Sharon, has left for beauty school, Jackie is excited to start high school and finally be recognized as her own person. But even miles away at school, Sharon still holds the spotlight. Their parents pore over her letters anxiously, and Jackie's teachers call her "Sharon's little sister." And it seems that every time Jackie turns around, Sharon is back home stealing the show--like at homecoming, with her dramatically dyed hair and a good luck kiss for the football captain. The final straw is when Sharon chooses someone else to be her model for the state beautician's exam. When the model gets sick at the last minute, Sharon expects Jackie to stop everything--including her first real night out--to substitute. Won't Jackie ever be free of Sharon's shadow?" RL Ages 6 9-13 Read more about Jackie and her older sister in My Sister the Meanie and My Sister the Traitor. You can find another series by Candice F. Ransom about the excitement and frustrations of a girl growing up in the Bookshare Collection. Look for the Kobie Roberts series including #1 Almost Ten-and-a-Half, #2 Going on Twelve, #3 Thirteen, #4 Fourteen and Holding, and #5 Fifteen At Last.
My Sister the Meanie (My Sister #1)
by Candice Ransom"Is it fair that Jackie's fifteen-year-old sister Sharon is pretty, popular, and has plenty of boyfriends, while Jackie is a seventh-grade Nothing? Is it right for Sharon to ignore Jackie, when just a little of Sharon's advice might help Jackie get invited to join the exclusive I Like Boys Club? Trying to learn how to act sophisticated, Jackie and her best friend Natalie crash Sharon's Halloween party. Sharon declares war on Jackie and stops speaking to her. Jackie is desperate. She's willing to take drastic measures to learn how to be cool enough to get into the club. She's even willing to risk her life by sneaking into Sharon's room to read her diary...." Jackie's older sister Sharon continues to be mean most of the time and startlingly nice once in a while in the other Sister books including My Sister The Creep and My Sister the Traitor in the Bookshare collection. You can find another series by Candice F. Ransom about the excitement and frustrations of a girl growing up in the Bookshare Collection. Look for the Kobie Roberts series including #1 Almost Ten-and-a-Half, #2 Going on Twelve, #3 Thirteen, #4 Fourteen and Holding, and #5 Fifteen At Last. After all, if Sharon won't help, how can she blame Jackie for what happens? Is it Jackie's fault that she has the meanest sister in the world? In this true-to-life novel, Candice Ransom has captured the ups and downs of sisterhood with humor, warmth, and rare perception.
Rebel McKenzie
by Candice RansomRebel McKenzie wants to spend her summer attending the Ice Age Kids' Dig and Safari, a camp where kids discover prehistoric bones, right alongside real paleontologists. But digs cost money, and Rebel is broker than four o'clock. When she finds out her annoying neighbor Bambi Lovering won five hundred dollars by playing a ukulele behind her head in a beauty contest, Rebel decides to win the Frog Level Volunteer Fire Department's beauty pageant. Rebel may not be a typical pageant contestant, but how hard can it be? Rebel's dramatic reading about life is the Pleistocene era is sure to blow away the competition. It turns out that winning a beauty pageant is harder than it looks. By the end of the summer, Rebel has learned a thing or two about her true calling that will surprise everyone -- most of all, herself.
Rebel McKenzie
by Candice RansomWhen feisty twelve-year-old Rebel McKenzie, an aspiring paleontologist, goes to spend the summer taking care of her older sister's seven-year-old son at the mobile home park in Frog Level, Virginia, she never expects to enter a beauty pageant or meet a hand model.
Favorite Russian Fairy Tales (Dover Children's Thrift Classics)
by Arthur RansomeRussian folk culture is filled with magical stories for children; tales of witches and wizardry, perilous journeys, wise animals, frightful giants, and beautiful princesses. This choice collection presents six of the most popular tales. Some bear a resemblance to the folktales of western Europe, while others introduce exotic creatures and situations unique to the Russian imagination. Among the fanciful characters young readers will encounter in these stories are the legendary Fire-bird; the dulcimer-playing Sadko, whose music could make the Tzar of the Sea dance; the iron-toothed witch Baba Yaga, and many more.British author Arthur Ransome (1884-1967) gathered these authentic tales from peasant storytellers on his journeys to Russia early in the twentieth century. He then retold them in English. This volume reproduces the English versions, reset in large, easy-to-read type, and illustrated with six handsome new drawings.
The Firebird and Other Russian Fairy Tales (Dover Children's Classics)
by Arthur RansomeChoice collection of nine classic tales -- gathered by British author on his journeys to Russia in the early twentieth century -- tells of magical beasts, daring young men, frightful giants, wicked witches, and beguiling creatures of the sea. A delight for fairy tale fans of all ages.
Creature Keepers and the Burgled Blizzard-Bristles
by Rohitash Rao Peter NelsonAbbie, Jordan, and Eldon travel to the snowy Himalayas to find the Yeti and save the world in the third book in the epically hilarious, fully illustrated middle grade adventure series, Creature Keepers, from the dynamic creators of Herbert's Wormhole.Although the Creature Keepers were able to defeat Chupacabra, their nemesis still managed to get his claws on one of Bigfoot's Soil Soles. Now he needs only one more item of mythological power to wreak havoc across the globe. Disturbances in China lead Abbie, Jordan, and Eldon to discover that Chupacabra is after the Yeti, a powerful but reclusive cryptid who hasn't been seen since the days Jordan's grandfather was running the Creature Keepers. Our heroes will need to find the Yeti first--and hopefully avert another catastrophe.
Creature Keepers and the Swindled Soil-Soles
by Rohitash Rao Peter NelsonAbbie, Jordan, and Eldon are off on their next Creature Keepers mission in the second book in this epically hilarious, fully illustrated middle grade adventure series, from the dynamic creators of Herbert's Wormhole.Gearing up for a triumphant return to South Florida, and their new position as honorary Creature Keepers, Abbie and Jordan are surprised when it turns out they are actually heading north of the border to Canada for their summer vacation. With Creature Keepers the world over abandoning their posts, the two siblings have been tapped for a special assignment: to serve as the new keepers for Syd--otherwise known as Bigfoot!Caring for Syd has never been a particularly difficult job--he's more than content to sit around in his treehouse and watch TV all day. But TV, in fact, is posing the newest threat to the Creature Keepers. Specifically, a reality-show host named Buck Wilde is dead set on tracking down Bigfoot and exposing him. And before long, the Keepers suspect that Buck isn't the only one intent on finding Syd....
¡Defiéndete! Una guía innovadora para que el niño adquiera poder personal y autoestima
by Lev Raphael Gershen KaufmanNo disponible
A Boy From Ireland: A Novel
by Marie Raphael"An excellent, moving story" (Midwest Book Review) of an immigrant boy who triumphs over prejudice. 1901. A half-Irish boy is beaten in Ireland for his English blood, then again in New York City, where Irish and English, blacks and whites also hate based on historical wrongs. Drawn in at first, he breaks an ordeal of bullying and violence, helped by a black employer, a new friend, and a fiery thoroughbred horse. "Unsparing in its depiction of prejudice...heartwarming in its portrayal of friendship and moral awakening" (Howard Zinn).
Streets of Gold: A Novel
by Marie RaphaelA Polish girl comes to America at the turn of the century in this fast-paced historical novel about the immigrant experience. It's 1901. Marisia and her family flee Poland ahead of the czar's soldiers. But when they arrive at Ellis Island, Marisia's younger sister is diagnosed with tuberculosis and she and her parents are turned away. Now, with only her wits and her courage to guide her, Marisia and her brother Stefan must find their way in the New World alone. Streets of Gold is Marisia's story--the story of a spirited young girl who dreams of becoming an artist. Can she overcome the hardships of immigrant life on New York's Lower East Side, the struggle to find work, and the tyrannical views of those who stand in her way? If one dream dies, can she find another dream to live by? Deftly written, rich with historical detail, and illustrated with period photographs, Streets of Gold "will carry [you] to another time and place....Readers won't want the story to end" (Diana Pardue, Ellis Island Immigration Museum).
One Life: Young Readers Edition
by Megan RapinoeAdapted for young readers! Join Olympic gold medalist, two-time Women's World Cup champion, and trailblazing activist Megan Rapinoe in the fight for equality and justice in this middle grade adaptation of her New York Times bestselling memoir, One Life. You know Megan Rapinoe as an international soccer superstar! She&’s also a fierce activist, boldly speaking out about issues of equality and justice—from LGBTQ rights to the equal pay movement to Black Lives Matter. In this adaptation for middle school readers of her memoir One Life, get to know Megan: from her childhood in a small California town where she learned to play soccer and how to fight for social justice; through high school, college and beyond; to 2016 when she became the first high-profile white athlete to take a knee in support of Colin Kaepernik, and also suing the United States Soccer Federation along with her teammates over gender discrimination. Using stories from her own life and career, Rapinoe discusses the responsibility we have to speak up. In this edition specifically for young readers, she reveals the impact everyone, even kids, can have on their communities and how kids can get involved in making the world a better place.
Beyond Courage: The Untold Story of Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust
by Doreen RappaportIn a stirring chronicle, Doreen Rappaport brings to light the courage of countless Jews who organized to sabotage the Nazis and help other Jews during the Holocaust. Under the noses of the military, Georges Loinger smuggles thousands of children out of occupied France into Switzerland. In Belgium, three resisters ambush a train, allowing scores of Jews to flee from the cattle cars. In Poland, four brothers lead more than 1,200 ghetto refugees into the forest to build a guerilla force and self-sufficient village. And twelve-year-old Motele Shlayan entertains German officers with his violin moments before setting off a bomb. Through twenty-one meticulously researched accounts -- some chronicled in book form for the first time -- Doreen Rappaport illuminates the defiance of tens of thousands of Jews across eleven Nazi-occupied countries during World War II. In answer to the genocidal madness that was Hitler's Holocaust, the only response they could abide was resistance, and their greatest weapons were courage, ingenuity, the will to survive, and the resolve to save others or to die trying. Extensive end matter includes: - timeline of important events - index - pronunciation guide - source notes - maps integrated throughout text.
Nobody Gonna Turn Me 'round: Stories and Songs of the Civil Rights Movement
by Doreen RappaportA powerful trilogy concludes with a look at both famous and lesser-known forces in the ongoing struggle for civil rights. In the summer of 1955, Moses Wright braved mortal danger to testify against three white men accused of murdering Emmett Till -- a brutal event that helped to spur the American civil rights movement. Nine black teenagers in Little Rock, Arkansas, headed out to a formerly white high school, despite warnings that "blood will run in the streets. " James Lawson trained activists not to fight back with fists or words, no matter how many billy clubs rained down on them. Through ten turbulent years, black southerners filled jails and public places with the songs and strength passed down from their ancestors. This final book in a trilogy about the African-American experience is a tribute to the crusaders for equality and peace in America, a crusade that continues to this day.
Trouble at the Mines
by Doreen RappaportRosie and her family are caught up in the Arnot, Pennsylvania, mining strike of 1899-1900, led by the union organizer Mother Jones. <P><P> Jane Addams Children’s Book Award Honor Book
Abe's Honest Words: The Life of Abraham Lincoln
by Doreen Rappaport Gary Kelley Kadir NelsonFrom the time he was a young boy roaming the forests of the unsettled Midwest, Abraham Lincoln knew in his heart that slavery was deeply wrong. A voracious reader, Lincoln spent every spare moment of his days filling his mind with knowledge, from history to literature to mathematics, preparing himself to one day lead the country he loved towards greater equality and prosperity. Despite the obstacles he faced as a self-educated man from the back woods, Lincoln persevered in his political career, and his compassion and honesty gradually earned him the trust of many Americans. As president, he guided the nation through a long and bitter civil war and penned the document that would lead to the end of slavery in the United States. The passion for humanity that defined Lincoln's life shines through in this momentous follow-up to Martin's Big Words and John's Secret Dreams. Told in Doreen Rappaport's accessible, absorbing prose, and brought to life in powerful illustrations by Kadir Nelson, Abe's Honest Words is an epic portrait of a truly great American president.
The Doorman's Repose
by Chris RaschkaFrom Caldecott Award winner Chris Raschka, tales of unforgettable characters who live in a NYC apartment building “To the company of ur-New Yorkers like Stuart Little, Harriet the Spy, and Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile, let me hold open the door for The Doorman’s Repose. A new favorite." —Gregory Maguire“….marvelously intriguing stories…” —Lemony SnicketSome of us look up at those craggy, mysterious apartment buildings found in the posher parts of New York City and wonder what goes on inside. The Doorman’s Repose collects ten stories about 777 Garden Avenue, one of the craggiest. The first story recounts the travails of the new doorman, who excels at all his tasks except perhaps the most important one—talking baseball. Others tell of a long-forgotten room, a cupid-like elevator, and the unlikely romance of a cerebral psychologist and a jazz musician, both of whom are mice. Because the animals talk and the machinery has feelings, these are children’s stories. Otherwise they are for anyone intrigued by what happens when many people, strangers or kin, live together under one roof.