Product Description: When Maria Finneran meets her only living relatives, the elderly Jack and Bonnie Koenig of St. Louis, she learns something new about her parents and finds that the ostensibly simple Koenigs have plans for her. Maria’s life accelerates more after her return to California’s Bay Area...read more

A new addition to the 101 Ways series focuses on the most common grammatical errors that kids make, including except vs. accept, proper use of apostrophes, agreement in verb tenses, and more. Original. (view table of contents)

Provides experiments suitable for science fair projects in the fields of chemistry, zoology, physiology, physics, psychology, microbiology, and mathematics.

Provides step-by-step instructions for drawing a variety of clowns in different costumes and activities

Product Description: This engaging and accessible book examines the world of seven contemporary, popular American women writers and their individual use of wit as a subtle and effective strategy to engage, or "control", the reader. A chapter is devoted to each of the seven writers - Lisa Alther, Rita Mae Brown, Nora Ephron, Shirley Jackson, Alison Lurier, Grace Paley, and Anne Tyler - and discusses their writings and their use of wit in the context of their lives...read more

Suggests ways in which students can achieve good grades and do well on tests and exams (view table of contents)