Discusses the life of the gaming pioneer, including her childhood love of video games, her early work with alternate reality games, and why she believes that games can solve real-world problems.
David learned from his grandfather to be a sofer, or scribe, and to care for the Torah scrolls that he receives, no matter their condition, until one day he assembles a complete scroll from pieces dam
"Little Bear doesn't want to go to sleep, so he tries everything he can think of to distract his father. In the end it's an exhausted dad who falls asleep"--
In 1872 New York City, a young newspaper reporter puts his life in danger when he goes undercover to investigate a conspiracy in the violent world of bare-knuckle boxing.
A latest Elmer adventure finds him visiting the beach with his cousin, Wilbur, only to become lost at sea then assisted by a pod of friendly whales. By the creator of Elmer's Colors.
"Vin swears he had nothing to do with the robbery, or the two people who were shot. But Sal saw Vin running from the scene. Even after Vin is arrested, Mike isn't sure who to believe. He's caught betw
"Mike's lies are spinning out of control and now he's the number-one suspect in a murder. Okay, so he can't explain his bruised and skinned knuckles, and he can't explain why he was spotted near the p
When Howard B. Wigglebottom is not invited to Ali's picnic party because he likes to start fights with the other kids, Howard's grandmother teaches him how to get along with others.
"A shallow grave... human remains... an unsolved murder from years ago... It looks like the past is coming back to spin Mike's new life out of control. What's making the usually cool Riel so rattled?
"When Mallory wins Fashion Fran's design contest, she and Mary Ann are headed to New York City! But as they share the sights, sounds, and tastes of New York, there's just one problem. Only Mallory get
In nineteenth-century New York City, as Irish immigrant Myles McReary prepares to fight the mighty Giancarlo Sperio, a renegade priest gives Myles a relic that he claims will disorient Giancarlo--a re
Looks at some of the endangered and extinct invertebrates that roam or have roamed the Earth, including staghorn coral, white-clawed crayfish, and trilobites.
Looks at some of the endangered and extinct amphibians that roam or have roamed the Earth, including Hewitt's ghost frogs, Chinese giant salamanders, and orange-bellied newts.
Hannah doesn't like being the littlest Levine. She's too short to hang fruit from the sukkah and too young to light the Hanukkah candles by herself. But when Passover comes, the littlest Levine gets a
"What is Lag Ba'Omer?" Sadie and Ori ask their grandfather, who sends them off on a mission to solve the mystery. They learn the surprising history and traditions behind the holiday, and invite their
Mumbet's Declaration of Independence tells the story of a Massachusetts slave from the Revolutionary era--in 1781, she successfully used the new Massachusetts Constitution to make a legal case that sh
The dramatic story of neighbors in a small Danish fishing village who, during the Holocaust, shelter a Jewish family waiting to be ferried to safety in Sweden.It is 1943 in Nazi-occupied Denmark. Anet
When a puzzling note and a skeleton are found in place of the town's time capsule, sleuths-in-training Milo and Jazz race with Gordy Fletcher to solve a seventy-five-year-old mystery.
Discusses agriculture, the food system, and the benefits of organic farming for the health of people and the planet, and explains the rise of community-supported agriculture.
While serving in Afghanistan, Ben writes about incidents from his senior year in a small-town Wisconsin high school, when a neighbor he was trying to help out becomes the victim of an apparent hate cr
In a contest that takes place every thirty years, Tom Yamada, the human champion, duels with the king of darkness, the Lord of the Void, to determine the fate of the world.
