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This fully illustrated chapter book follows Anna, a young Asian-American girl, as she navigates relationships with family, friends, and her fourth-grade classroom, and finds a true best friend.

An introduction to the field of genetics through the story of Randy Lewis and his work with golden orb weaver spiders andhis subsequent creation of artificial spider silk that can be used to save and improve lives.

The audacious effort to map the brainand along with it our mental afflictions, from autism to schizophreniaby a rising star in neuroscience.

Teenage delinquent Lex's parents ship her off to her uncle's house for the summer, where she discovers a surprising family business as a grim reaper and gets caught up in a mystery in the first installment of a morbidly hilarious new series.

The classic tale of the old couple, with no children of their own, who bake a gingerbread boy to keep them company. Just as the little old woman is about to take him from the oven, he slips away and runs out the door past a cow, a horse, a group of threshers, mowers, etc. All follow in hot pursuit until the gingerbread boy meets up with a wily fox, and at last and at last he went the way of every single gingerbread boy that ever came out of an oven . . . He was all gone! A wonderfully frenetic cross-country chase is depicted in Galdones broadly humorous color wash drawings. Of the eight editions of this well-known story now in print, this hilarious version is the most delectable. School Library Journal, starredGaldone has already proven many times over that he is perfectly at home with those traditional nursery tales that are still preschoolers favorites, and his expressive, unassuming style just right for their very young audience. . . . Children will follow along breathlessly . . . right up to that last snip snap snip when the Gingerbread Boy goes the way of every single gingerbread boy that ever came out of an oven.Kirkus Reviews

Health and fitness experts agree that keeping track of exercise habits helps to improve performance and motivates people to continue exercising. The Ultimate Workout Log provides four pages per week to do just that, as well as space to note goals, accomplishments, and a weekly self-evaluation. The 30-page training guide and sidebar information educate and encourage with training tips, inspirational quotations, fitness guidelines, and drawings.

Contar siempre es mucho ms divertido con la ayuda de Abuelo! De un oso negro a diez jabales peludos, el joven narrador y su abuelo cuentan lo que ven mientras atraviesan un colorido y por momentos inusual zoologico, donde se encuentran con una gran variedad de animales amigables en el camino. Hay leones, cebras y pinguinos, por supuesto, pero tambien camaleones y guilas . . . y hasta tarntulas! Ilustraciones juguetonas y peculiares ponen a relucir la cariosa relacion entre el abuelo juvenil y el nieto, mientras que el texto rimado y animado repleto de verbos con sonidos brillantes invita a que hasta los ms pequeos lectores y oyentes participen. Counting is always more fun when Grandpa helps! From one black bear to ten hairy warthogs, the young narrator and his grandpa count their way through a colorful and sometimes unusual zoo, encountering a wide assortment of friendly animals along the way. There are lions, zebras, and penguins, of course, but also chameleons and eagles . . . and even tarantulas! Playful, quirky illustrations put the loving relationship between the youthful grandfather and the grandson on proud display, while an upbeat, rhymed text full of sparkling verb sounds invites even the youngest readers and listeners to participate.

This dishy and delightful, never-before-published correspondence between America's queen of food, Julia Child, and her confidante and mentor Avis DeVoto, shows not only the blossoming of a lifelong friendship, but also an America on the verge of political, social, and gastronomic transformation.

Award-winning novelist Carl Deuker creates a mystery-thriller against the backdrop of high school football and the criminal underworld.

When her widower father inherits a castlelike estate in the mountains of West Virginia, 12-year-old Jen is thrilled. It seems like a wish come true. But she quickly realizes that not all change is positive. Her dad has a mysterious new girlfriend, Moura, who slowly drives a wedge between Jen and her father. Furthermore, Moura has an unusually strongalmost obsessiveinterest in the antiques that fill the mansion, especially a beautiful glass globe that Jen finds hanging in a window. When Jens cat accidentally breaks the globe, which Moura calls a witch catcher, strange things begin to happen. . . . An odd-looking girl wearing a torn dress appears, seemingly out of nowhere, and Mouras behavior becomes more sinister, leading Jen to believe that her father is a pawn in an evil scheme. Soon Jen finds herself caught in the midst of a supernatural war, with the fate of an enchanted raceand her familyat stake. Inspired by the age-old legend of witch catchers, Mary Downing Hahn brings a magical cast of characters to life in this compelling fantasy adventure. Authors note.

Great friends aren't hard to find--they're right here! We are delighted to provide another offering of James Marshall's George and Martha stories in the reader format. Using original art and text from Marshall's storybooks, the tales have been reformatted to the traditional 6 x 9 trim. Marshall's themes are all resonant with a reader age child--navigating the waters of first friendships, honesty versus kindness, curiosity versus privacy.This book contains the classic "The Fibber," "The Experiment," and "The Picnic" stories.

Auntie Claus is back in this heartwarming story where Christopher Kringle learns the family secret, and that the key to Christmas is to believe.

In Vulcan's Hammerasuper-computer makes all the important decisions for a worldwide government. But when religious fanatics decide to fight back, itleads a high-ranking official to question whether the peace provided by the computer is worth the abnegation of free will.

Mars is not a happy placea planet for exiles, drifters, and psychics, who would otherwise be executed. One such psychic is a ten-year-old boy named Manfred, a boy so powerful he not only looks into the future, but can send people there. But with the turbulent politics of Mars, that future might not be any better than the present. This twisty novel from Philip K. Dick is combines political intrigue, time travel, family drama, and all the perils that come with being the first at anything.

A masterwork by Philip K. Dick, this is the final, expanded version of the novella The Unteleported Man, which Dick worked on shortly before his death. In Lies, Inc., fans of the science fiction legend will immediately recognize his hallmark themes of life in a security state, conspiracy, and the blurring of reality and illusion.In this dystopian vision of the future, overpopulation has turned cities into cramped industrial hothouses. For those sick of their depressing reality, one corporation, Trails of Hoffman, Inc., promises an alternative: Take a teleport to Whale's Mouth, a colonized planet billed as the supreme paradise. The only catch is that you can never return. When a neurotic man named Rachmael ben Applebaum discovers that the promotional films of happy crowds cheering their newfound existence on Whale's Mouth are faked, he decides to pilot a spaceship on the eighteen-year journey there to see if anyone wants to come back.

A humorous, light-hearted story about one man's fight against a puritanical totalitarian government from the award-winning Philip K. Dick.

Dr. Bloodmoney is Philip K. Dick'sdarkly comic riff on Dr. Strangelove, a look at how humanity gets along after the end of the world. This Nebula Award nominee has all the wild characters and twisty science fiction plotting that Dick fans know and love.

What if you discovered that everything you knew about the world was a lie? That's the question at the heart of Philip K. Dick's futuristic novel about political oppression, the show business of politics, and the sinister potential of the military-industrial complex. This wry, paranoid thriller imagines a future in which the earth has been ravaged, and cities are burnt-out wastelands too dangerous for human life. Americans have been shipped underground, where they toil in crowded industrial anthills and receive a steady diet of inspiring speeches from a president who never seems to age. Nick St. James, like the rest of the masses, believes in the words of his leaders. But that all changes when he travels to the surface--where what he finds is more shocking than anything he could possibly imagine.

A fantastical, fast-paced science fiction novel of mystery and action from award-winning novelist Philip K. Dick.

Dr. Eric Sweetscent has problems. His planet is enmeshed in an unwinnable war. His wife is lethally addicted to a drug that whips its users helplessly back and forth across time--and is hell-bent on making Eric suffer along with her. And Sweetscent's newest patient is not only the most important man on the embattled planet Earth, but quite possibly the sickest. For Secretary Gino Molinari has turned his mortal illness into an instrument of political policy--and Eric cannot tell if his job is to make the Male better or to keep him poised just this side of death.Now Wait for Last Year bursts through the envelope between the impossible and the inevitable. Even as it ushers us into a future that looks uncannily like the present, it makes the normal seem terrifyingly provisional--and compels anyone who reads it to wonder if he really knows what time is.

A theological and philosophical adventure in a world set in reverse from the award-winning science fiction novelist Philip K. Dick.

In the third book in the Lemonade War series, siblings Evan and Jessiemust solve the mystery of a missing cherished family treasure while coming to terms with their beloved grandmother's unsettling behavior.

The trusty twosome of an award-winning series are saddling up for spring!

They climb! They drop! These rail-riding dinos just can't stop!

It's the last inning of a high school baseball game between arch-rivals Oak Grove and Compton. Center fielder Luke "Wizard" Wallace steps up to the plate--and is hit by a beanball, a wild pitch that shatters his skull, destroys the vision in his left eye, and changes his life forever.In this riveting novel, the events surrounding this pivotal moment are recounted through free-verse monologues by 28 different voices, including those of Luke and his Oak Grove teammates; the pitcher, Kyle Dawkins, and other Compton players; the two coaches; Luke's family members and teachers; and Sarah Edgerton, a new classmate who seems more affected by Luke's injury than his girlfriend is.With its unusual format, gripping subject matter, and economy of language, Beanball is a thought-provoking, fast-paced read.

A new illustrated middle-grade series from Theodosia Throckmorton author Robin LaFevers!

A repackage of Ann Patchett's novel Taft, about a middle-aged black man who runs a blues club in Memphis.

Ann Patchetts bestselling first novel about a young pregant mother and a Kentucky home for unwed mothers

Great friends arent hard to findtheyre right here! Houghton Mifflin is delighted to publish two more George and Martha readers. Using original art and text from James Marshalls storybooks, the tales are reformatted for beginning readers.Marshalls themes are all resonant with a reading-age childnavigating the waters of first friendships, honesty versus kindness, curiosity versus privacy. These are the kind of deeply humorous, deeply true stories that inspire a love of reading!Story Number One: The Clock George gives Martha a birthday gift that she just cant seem to fit in her home.Story Number Two: The Trip George and Martha use their imagination as they take a trip on an ocean liner.Story Number Three: The Artist George and Martha learn about artistic interpretation.

Conoce a Gansi, un pequeo y amarillo ansarino que le encanta usar botas de color rojo vivo . . . todos los das. Una maana Gansi no encuentra sus queridas botas. Las busca por todas partes: debajo de la cama, del otro lado de la pared, hasta en el granero. Los nios de preescolar disfrutarn de ayudar a que Gansi encuentre sus botas rojas y les encantar descubrir donde es que por fin las encuentra. Meet Gossie, a small yellow gosling who loves to wear bright red bootsevery day. One morning Gossie can't find her beloved boots. She looks everywhere for them: under the bed, over the wall, even in the barn. Preschoolers will enjoy helping Gossie find her red boots and delight in where Gossie finally finds them.