Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11526.39 | Kids, Fiction literature | 31 December 2011
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The Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Treasure Hunt
Judy and Stink co-star in their second full-color adventure — crawling with pirates and puzzles, carbuncles and chuckles. As soon as the Moody family drops anchor on "Artichoke" Island, they are greeted by Cap’n Weevil, a one-eyed buccaneer with a scraggly beard and a secret treasure map.
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11526.39 | Kids, Science literature | 31 December 2011
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Woolly Mammoths
It is hot and dry in California’s desert. Under a tent, scientists dig in the sand. They are looking for mammoths, giant elephant-like creatures. But the scientists are not looking for living mammoths. Mammoths died out about 4,000 years ago. These scientists are paleontologists. They study past life on Earth. They learn by looking at fossils, the hardened tracks or remains of animals. Paleontologists have studied fossils of mammoths found all over the world.
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11526.39 | Kids, Fiction literature | 30 December 2011
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Scarlett
Grade 4-7 – Since her parents' divorce two years ago, Scarlett Flynn has been kicked out of five schools. After she ignites a food demonstration in the cafeteria, her mother has had enough. With her pierced tongue, black fingernails, and dyed tomato-soup-red hair, the 12-year-old is unwillingly sent from London to live with her father and his new family in Ireland.
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11526.39 | Kids, Fiction literature | 30 December 2011
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Driftwood
Hannah and Joey have been best friends for ever. Joey's parents love rescuing things and making them beautiful - their house is full of things made from driftwood, old glass and shells from the beach. Which is why the scraggy kittens the girls find in a bin at school end up living there. And when Paul moves in as Joey's foster brother, everyone thinks that maybe he needs rescuing too.
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11526.39 | Kids, Fiction literature | 30 December 2011
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Dizzy
What would it be like to walk into your living room one day and meet a complete stranger who says she’s your mother? It happens to Dizzy on her twelfth birthday. Storm ("Please don’t call me mum!") arrives, and the nice, safe, predictable life Dizzy has made with her father is blown to bits. Storm convinces Dizzy to go away on a short holiday with her—something she says Dizzy’s father has agreed to—and so begins a wild, van-traveling, musicmaking, teepee-sleeping, patchouli-wearing summer! But soon enough the fun wears off, and Dizzy begins to realize that Storm is not the mother Dizzy always dreamed she’d be.