Synopsis: Introduces opposites using painted wooden folk art animal sculptures made by artisans from Oaxaca, Mexico.

Synopsis: Este libro ilustrado para niños presenta el alfabeto usando esculturas de animales talladas de madera y pintadas por la familia Jiménez, descendientes de Manuel Jiménez de Oaxaca, un fundador de ese tipo de arte folklórico.

Synopsis: When Max the duck decides to stay behind when his flock flies south, Irene invites him to stay with her and her pets for the winter.

Synopsis: Percy the pug searches far and wide for the perfect puddle but when he finds it, Mama Pig is unhappy about him joining her family until a storm provides Percy the opportunity to prove himself to her.

Synopsis: At sunset, when their work is done for the day, a crane truck, a cement mixer, and other pieces of construction equipment make their way to their resting places and go to sleep.

Synopsis: In Autumn, a strong wind blows flower seeds high in the air and carries them far across the land.

Synopsis: A brilliant new collection of Emily Dickinson's poetry, introduced by acclaimed author Virginia Euwer Wolff. I'M NOBODY, WHO ARE YOU? is a collection of Emily Dickinson's greatest poetry, from the wistful to the unsettling, the wonders of nature to the foibles of human nature.

Synopsis: Dive into the world's oceans to explore the adventurous lives of one of the oldest living animals.Descended from enormous prehistoric creatures, sea turtles are fascinating. Hatched from eggs smaller than a baseball, some can grow to weigh over a thousand pounds. Once adults, they can live to be around 100 years old. And when it's time to nest, they migrate more than 1,000 miles. With colorful, clear illustrations and straightforward text, Gail…

Synopsis: Little Bear's four adventures include taking a trip to the moon and having a birthday party.

Synopsis: Ernest Hemingway’s classic novel of love during wartime.Written when Ernest Hemingway was thirty years old and lauded as the best American novel to emerge from World War I, A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. Set against the looming horrors of the battlefield, this gripping, semiautobiographical work captures the harsh realities of war…

Synopsis: This guide to idioms provides the student with an "ace up your sleeve!" Idioms bring color to our speech every day. Included are idioms from Native American and African American speech as well as the Bible, Aesop, and Shakespeare.

Synopsis: While playing around with hypnotism at a party, Kira remembers fleeing a war-torn country with her mother, speaking a language she can't identify. A few days later her mother disappears, and a woman who calls herself Kira's aunt Memory takes Kira to Crythe, a country that doesn't officially exist, in order to rescue her -- or so she says. Kira soon learns that Aunt Memory is not what she seems, and Kira and her mother are both in terrible…

Synopsis: A verse-and-picture evocation and celebration of the sights, smells, sounds, and activities of spring

Synopsis: The screenplay for the heartfelt, five-time Emmy Award–winning movie Brian’s Song about two Chicago Bears players who developed an unlikely, lifelong friendship before an untimely tragedy ripped them apartTwo men. One named Gale Sayers, the other Brian Piccolo. They came from different parts of the country. They competed fiercely for the same job. One liked to talk; the other was shy. One was white; the other black. They made history as the…

Synopsis: October, 1991. It was "the perfect storm"--A tempest that may happen only once a century--a nor'easter created by so rare a combination of factors that it could not possibly have been worse. Creating waves ten stories high and winds of 120 miles an hour, the storm whipped the sea to inconceivable levels few people on Earth have ever witnessed. Few, except the six-man crew of the Andrea Gail, a commercial fishing boat tragically headed towards…

Synopsis: Once in a while you get a second chance. For Travis Cody this is one of those times. His team, the Oil Camp Roughnecks, is facing the Pineview Pelicans for the state championship. Travis will have forty-eight minutes head-to-head with rival Jericho Grooms. Forty-eight minutes to redeem himself for letting Grooms break him on the play that cost the Roughnecks an undefeated season. Forty-eight minutes to prove he isn't a quitter.

Synopsis: At seventeen, Dru gets involved with the latest high school stunt--leaping between deadly cliffs into the ocean far below. Things get out of hand as manipulative relationships and resulting jealousies cause more students to risk their lives. "It's Bunting's acknowledgment of the allure of danger and the power that comes from facing it, as well as her on-target depiction of how easy it is to lose perspective when you fall in love, that makes her…

Synopsis: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Extremely funny . . . inspired lunacy . . . [and] over much too soon.”—The Washington Post Book WorldSOON TO BE A HULU SERIES • Now celebrating the pivotal 42nd anniversary of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy!Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American ReadIt’s an ordinary Thursday morning for Arthur Dent . . . until his house gets demolished. The Earth follows shortly after to…

Synopsis: Imagine...Nineteen superb stories by today's best-known authors of young adult novels, coming together to create a window of the mind, a vision illuminating the joys and sorrows of young people.These nineteen splendid stories range from tales of tender romance and the delights of mystery and fantasy to the struggles of death, divorce, and growing up. Here are recollections from the past, stories of today, and visions of the future.

Synopsis: They say something very strange is happening to some of the people of Salem. That some of the young girls have become - troubled. And the fear is beginning to spread. Mary and her mother don't hear about the rumors right away. They don't know that many of the villagers believe that some of Mary's friends have had spells cast on them - by witches. Or that one of the accused is Mary's mother. Now Mary and her brother, Caleb, have a decision to…