Bert and Nan dashed out of the train. The twins pushed their way through the crowd on the platform. "Hurry!" Bert exclaimed. "He went up those stairs!" When Bert and Nan reached the street, they looked around for the burly figure wanted by the police - but he was nowhere in sight.
The Bobbsey Twins - Bert and Nan, Freddie and Flossie - have won millins of fans since their first adventure. Now Grosst & Dunlap are proud to reissue the classic editions of these mysteries.
The double whammy of successful infertility treatments and an increase in the number of women having children later in life has resulted in a staggering--but perhaps not surprising--phenomenon: a tremendous increase in twin, triple, and quadruple births. When You're Expecting Twins, Triplets, or Quads is an outstanding, much-needed addition to the pregnancy genre for women who face the alternating joy, terror, and ambivalence associated with carrying, delivering, and coping with young multiples.
Long before interplanetary exploration and a certain rock group, Robert A. Heinlein wrote this science fiction classic (Random, 1977). Mischievous teen twins Castor and Pollux Stone set the story in motion with a plan to make their fortune as space traders. Soon they are waving goodbye to their home on the Earth's moon and they're headed for Mars with their parents, sister, younger brother, and grandmother. The Stones are an intelligent, strong-willed clan, so there are squabbles during their months of weightless flight...
