Maya?s family has just moved from Idaho to Spores Ferry, Oregon. She?s nervous about starting middle school and making new friends, but soon that?s the last thing on her mind. First, a fairy flies int
Reading Thresholds helps basic readers develop analytical abilities and apply them to material they will encounter in college and in their careers. Students progress through a series of paragraph- and
This book looks at how legal frameworks can and do reduce risks arising out of disasters. The volume:analyses existing disaster laws and the challenges on the ground;brings together case studies from
Whenever the kids at Sonia Obata's new school fall asleep, they all go to a place called the Grand Dream. There, they can do whatever they want—play a game, write a song, or paint a masterpiece—withou
Despite a number of broad surveys of contemporary French fiction that have appeared in the last decade or so, the question of the nouveau roman’s literary legacy remains an under-researched field. Thr
Why does the position of the threshold exert such a compelling hold on our imaginative lives? Why is it a resonant space? Why is it so urgently the place of writing – the place where one may remain, a
