Did you know that floods cause more damage than any other natural phenomenon? Or that there are 2,000 thunderstorms in progress around the world right now? Feel the force of nature with this Guide to Weather. Cutting edge satellite imagery allows you to examine amazing weather phenomena in close-up detail - from powerful storms to blistering heat. Reading/Interest Level: Grades 3-6
Designed as a hip time-travel journal into the pirate past, this compendium of the sea scoundrel’s world includes all the detail of classic eyewitness guides as well as excerpts from favourite piratical fiction - making Piratepedia a swashbuckling volume kids won’t want to walk the plank without! - Features high-sea rogues, their vessels, hideouts, cunning adventures, and gnarly ends - Explores pirates from around the world and from ancient history through modern day - Combines nonfiction facts and classic fiction in an innovative new format Reading/Interest Level: 8-14 years
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11524.33 | Kids, Fiction literature | 29 May 2011
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The Gollywhopper Games
Gil Goodson sure hopes he's ready. His future happiness depends on winning the Golly Toy & Game Company's ultimate competition. If Gil wins, his dad has promised the family can move out of Orchard Heights—away from all the gossip, the false friends, and bad press that have plagued the Goodsons ever since The Incident. Gil's been studying for months. He thinks he knows everything about Golly's history and merchandise. But does he know enough to answer the trivia? Solve the puzzles? Complete the stunts? Will it be more than all the other kids know? Gil's formidable opponents have their own special talents. He must be quicker and smarter than all of them.
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11524.33 | Kids, Fiction literature | 29 May 2011
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A Gift of Magic
When the old woman died, she left each of her grandchildren something very special. For Kirby, the gift of dance. For Brendon, the gift of music. And for Nancy, the most extraordinary gift of all . . . magic.
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11524.33 | Kids, Fiction literature | 29 May 2011
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Zia
A young Indian girl, caught between the traditional world of her mother and the present world of the mission, is helped by her Aunt Karana, whose story was told in Island of the Blue Dolphins. An almost unbearably moving story of what happened to the Indian woman, Karana, when she had been left alone at the end of The Island of the Blue Dolphins...
