Publisher: Nahdet Misr
Lily learns that things may not go our way, but being patient and looking for alternatives can be fun. A new series that uses the story to provide role models for children and teach them life skills.
The 7 continents of the world have their own history, climate, and natural biomes. Delve into a fun, fact-filled non-fiction book that explores the animals of the continent of Australia. Learn what countries make up the continent of Australia and fascinating information about 25 of the most interesting mammals, birds, insects, lizards, and ocean creatures. See full-color photos of the animals, most in their natural habitat. Also included is a list for further reading, websites to explore, a glossary and an index.Show book
A book-length poem about how an American Indian writer can't bring himself to write about nature, but is forced to reckon with colonial-white stereotypes, manifest destiny, and his own identity as an young, queer, urban-dwelling poet. Nature Poem follows Teebs—a young, queer, American Indian (or NDN) poet—who can't bring himself to write a nature poem. For the reservation-born, urban-dwelling hipster, the exercise feels stereotypical, reductive, and boring. He hates nature. He prefers city lights to the night sky. He'd slap a tree across the face. He'd rather write a mountain of hashtag punchlines about death and give head in a pizza-parlor bathroom; he'd rather write odes to Aretha Franklin and Hole. While he's adamant—bratty, even—about his distaste for the word "natural," over the course of the book we see him confronting the assimilationist, historical, colonial-white ideas that collude NDN people with nature. The closer his people were identified with the "natural world," he figures, the easier it was to mow them down like the underbrush. But Teebs gradually learns how to interpret constellations through his own lens, along with human nature, sexuality, language, music, and Twitter. Even while he reckons with manifest destiny and genocide and centuries of disenfranchisement, he learns how to have faith in his own voice.Show book
With more than 35 million books sold, the My Weird School series really gets kids reading! A.J. must figure out how to write the best poem to win a contest in this My Weird School Special from New York Times bestselling author Dan Gutman and veteran illustrator Jim Paillot. To celebrate National Poetry Month, Ella Mentry School will have a schoolwide poem-writing contest, and all the students have to enter. There’s just one problem: A.J. has no time for rhymes! But when an amazing secret prize is revealed, will A.J. be inspired to write a winning poem? And can he beat Little Miss Know-It-All Andrea—the best poet in school? Dan Gutman’s signature kid-friendly sense of humor and Jim Paillot’s fun illustrations are perfectly blended in this weird poetry special you won’t want to miss—featuring bonus poetry writing tips from A.J. and Andrea, games, puzzles, and more!Show book
The Swan Academy is under threat from closure due to a building development next door. Into this tense atmosphere come Cosmo and Cosima, the famous singing/acting twins from Hollywood to star in Peter Pan. But a series of mysterious accidents in the theatre threaten to close the production. Who is out to sabotage everything . and why?Show book
The #1 New York Times–bestselling author continues to explore the world of bears and their environment in the thrilling ecological adventure saga. In Return to the Wild #2: The Melting Sea, Kallik has almost reached home. The bears who have become her family—Lusa, Yakone and Toklo—are devastated that they’ll have to split up, but polar bears Kallik and Yakone belong on the ice, while the black and brown bears belong in the forest. At least Kallik will be reunited with her brother, Taqqiq. But when she and the others arrive at the Melting Sea, she is horrified to find the white bears almost starving due to an unnaturally early thaw. Worse, Taqqiq has rejoined a group of bullies who are terrorizing the other bears for food.Show book
