Product Description: I hate camp. I just hate it. I wish I didn’t. But I do. Being here is worse than bug juice on a burger. Or homework on Thanksgiving. Or water seeping into my shoes.   In this sequel to Like Pickle Juice on a Cookie, Eleanor is off to summer camp...read more

Originally published in 1916, Robert Shelford's descriptions of the wildlife of Sarawak remain as accurate and informative as ever for the naturalist of today. But the author's interests as a naturalist were not confined to the animal world. Shelford was an intrepid traveller, and his book vividly describes his expeditions and what he encountered, as seen through the eyes of an Edwardian Englishman in the heyday of the Empire. His accounts of life in the Sarawakian countryside convey the flavor of the time and present a picture which in ways is still recognizable to a modern visitor to Borneo.

An award-winning, big-hearted time capsule of one class’s poems during a transformative school year. A great pick for fans of Margarita Engle and Eileen Spinelli.  Eighteen kids,one year of poems,one school set to close.Two yellow bulldozerscrouched outside,ready to eat the buildingin one greedy gulp. But look out, bulldozers.Ms. Hill’s fifth-grade classhas plans for you.They’re going to speak up and work togetherto save their school. Families change and new friendships form as these terrific kids grow up and move on in this whimsical novel-in-verse about finding your voice and making sure others hear it.Honors and Praise:Winner of a Cybils Award in PoetryWinner of an Arnold Adoff Poetry Honor Award for New VoicesAn NCTE Notable Verse NovelA Bank Street College of Education Best Children’s Book of the YearAn ILA-CBC Children’s ChoiceNominated for the Pennsylvania Young Reader’s Choice Award, the Wisconsin State Reading Association Children’s Book Award, the Rhode Island Children’s Book Award, and the Great Stone Face Award (New Hampshire), Lectio Book Award Master List “This gently evocative study of change in all its glory and terror would make a terrific read-aloud or introduction to a poetry unit. A most impressive debut.” —School Library Journal“Sure to inspire the poet in all of us, young and old.” —Mark Goldblatt, author of Twerp

Product Description: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. I had a bad August. A very bad August. As bad as pickle juice on a cookie. Eleanor's beloved babysitter, Bibi, is moving away. Suddenly, the things she used to enjoy aren't fun anymore--everything reminds her of Bibi...read more

Originally published in 1988, this book analyses the position of nuclear power. Much of public concern about nuclear power is focused on issues of safety. Whilst clearly of great important, the related questions of economic and technological performance of nuclear power also need to be addressed. This book sets out to explore the realities of nuclear power using as its basis the detailed and exhaustive evaluation of the programmes in the USA, Canada, France and the Federal Republic of Germany. Earlier international comparative analyses identified large, consistent differences between countries (and sometimes within countries) in the performance of nuclear power. These differences cannot be satisfactorily explained in terms of simple variables such as the type, size or maker of the reactors involved. One possible explanation lies in the institutional structure surrounding nuclear power, including utilities, the vendors and economic safety regulations, which vary widely. It is this particular thesis that this book sets out to test. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in nuclear power and its organisation.

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. It's 1587 and twelve-year-old Alis has made the long journey with her parents from England to help settle the New World, the land christened Virginia in honor of the Queen. And Alis couldn't be happier. The streets of London are crowded and dirty. But this new land, with its trees and birds and sky calls to Alis. Here she feels free. But the land, the island Roanoke is also inhabited by the Roanoke tribe and tensions between them and the English are running high, quickly becoming deadly. Amid the strife, Alis meets and befriends Kimi, a Roanoke girl about her age. Despite not even speaking the same language these girls form an impossible bond becoming as close as sisters, willing to risk everything for the other. Finally, Alis must make an impossible choice when her family resolves to leave the island and bloodshed behind. With a beautiful, tender story of friendship and the meaning of family, Caroline Starr Rose delivers another historical gem.

A boy adjusts to life away from his home in Hong Kong, in the Chinatown of his new American city.

Product Description: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Newbery Medalist Karen Hesse calls this story for readers of The Book Thief and Between Shades of Gray ""a fine and haunting work."" Blending magical realism and lyrical free verse, this is an intense survival story of three siblings caught up in the horrific events of the Armenian genocide of 1915...read more