Synopsis: I created the Star Wars franchise. I am George Lucas. Learn all about this remarkable man, whose accomplishments are truly inspiring, in the continuation of the I AM series. I AM GEORGE LUCAS will follow one man's journey to become the most famous filmmaker in the world. Discover everything you wanted to know about this celebrated movie guru and creator of Star Wars. This book will feature a full-color illustrated cover, one-color illustrations…

Synopsis: Key Features Description When America was a brand new nation, great leaders were drafting important documents and setting up a unique system of government. We call these resourceful Americans the Founding Fathers. When America was a brand new nation, great leaders were drafting important documents and setting up a unique system of government. We call these resourceful Americans the Founding Fathers. Standards RI.3.4. Determine the meaning of…

Synopsis: Young Amar'e Stoudemire is back in the all-star basketball adventure--STAT: Standing Tall and Talented!Amar'e's idol, Overtime Tanner plans the biggest streetball tournament every year. But when Overtime gets hurt during a basketball game, he can't make the arrangements in time. Amar'e and his friends help set the tournament up.On top of that, each group of Amar'e's' friends wants him to play for their team and he's torn on what to do. Planning…

Synopsis: Examines the role of African-Americans in the military through the history of the Triple Nickles, America's first black paratroopers, who fought against attacks perpetrated on the American West by the Japanese during World War II.

Synopsis: I am the creator of Mickey Mouse. I am Walt Disney. As a child, I had a wild imagination and a great curiosity. As I grew up, I used those qualities to become a cartoonist. Eventually, I turned these drawings into films and began my own animation business. One of my characters, Mickey Mouse, became so popular that movie theaters sold out and I won an Academy Award. After pursuing a career as a film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor,…

Synopsis: "For A.J. and the gang from Ella Mentry School, a night of regular trick-or-treating turns into the weirdest Halloween in the history of the universe."--Résumé de l'éditeur.

Synopsis: Teaches important dates and facts about the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

Synopsis: History comes alive - with ghosts! Anderson finds himself drawn to the old trunk full of military relics in the basement of his family's junkshop. His friends Greg and Julie warn him to stay away from it, but he can't help himself. This time Anderson finds a cool old grenade that has a strange message scratched into it. But an old grenade is dangerous . . . and so might be the ghost that appears with it: an intimidating soldier in army fatigues…

Synopsis: A father and son embark on a road trip to a distant animal shelter to save a homeless border collie puppy.

Synopsis: A.J. and the Ella Mentry School gang learn some unusual self-defense moves from a wacky teacher who thinks he is an action hero -- Publisher.

Synopsis: When demonic cheerleaders invade his high school, Percy Jackson hurries to Camp Half Blood, from whence he and his demigod friends set out on a quest through the Labyrinth, while the war between the Olympians and the evil Titan lord Kronos draws near.

Synopsis: Goosebumps available soon on Disney+!The original books featuring the scariest creatures from the Goosebumps movie, in theaters October 16, 2015!Erin Wright and her best friend, Marty, love horror movies. Especially Shocker on Shock Street movies. All kinds of scary creatures live on Shock Street. The Toadinator. Ape Face. The Mad Mangler.But when Erin and Marty visit the new Shocker Studio Theme Park, they get the scare of their lives. First…

Synopsis: Goosebumps now on Disney+!The original books featuring the scariest creatures from the Goosebumps movie, in theaters October 16, 2015!On Max's birthday, he finds a kind of magic mirror in the attic. It can make him invisible.So Max and his friends start playing "now you see me, now you don't." Until Max realizes that he's losing control. Staying invisible a little too long. Having a harder and harder time coming back.Getting invisible is turning…

Synopsis: The original series from the Master of Fright--now a major motion picture in theaters August 7, 2015!The original books featuring the scariest creatures from the Goosebumps movie, in theaters August 7th, 2015!Amy's ventriloquist dummy, Dennis, has lost his head?for real. So Amy begs her family for a new dummy. That's when her dad finds Slappy in a local pawnshop. Slappy's kind of ugly, but at least his head stays on!Amy loves practicing her new…

Synopsis: Goosebumps now on Disney+!Hannah's neighborhood has gotten a little--weird. Ever since that new boy moved in next door.But when did he move in? Wasn't the house empty when Hannah went to sleep the night before? Why does it still look so deserted?Hannah can't get any answers from her new neighbor. He just keeps disappearing in the oddest ways. And he's so pale...Is Hannah being haunted by......the ghost next door?

Synopsis: "Twelve-year-old twins, Claudia and Reese, who couldn't be more different ... except in their determination to come out on top in a vicious prank war. But when the competition escalates into an all-out battle that's fought from the cafeteria of their New York City private school all the way to the fictional universe of an online video game, the twins have to decide if their efforts to destroy each other are worth the price. In a starred review,…

Synopsis: Isla and her brother are two young foxes living just outside a human city, but one night Isla returns to her den to find it destroyed, and surrounded by strange, vicious foxes, so she takes refuge in the city while she masters foxcraft--the ancient magical arts of her kind.

Synopsis: "When 14-year-old William Kamkwamba's Malawi village was hit by a drought in 2001, everyone's crops began to fail. His family didn't have enough money for food, let alone school, so William spent his days in the library. He came across a book on windmills and figured out how to build a windmill that could bring electricity to his village. Everyone thought he was crazy but William persevered and managed to create a functioning windmill out of…

Synopsis: National Theatre, Louis A. Lotito, managing director, The Theatre Guild American Repertory Company, produced by the Theatre Guild Foundation for the president's special international program under the auspices of the United States Department of State, Helen Hayes, Leif Erickson, June Havoc, Helen Menken in "The Skin of Our Teeth," by Thornton Wilder, "The Glass Menagerie," by Tennessee Williams, "The Miracle Worker," by William Gibson, with…

Synopsis: While running away from home and an unwanted marriage, a thirteen-year-old Eskimo girl becomes lost on the North Slope of Alaska and is befriended by a wolf pack.