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A bullied 12-year-old boy must find a new normal after his mother has a stroke and his life is turned upside down.William Wyatt Orser, a socially awkward middle schooler, is a wordsmith who, much to his annoyance, acquired the ironically ungrammatical nickname of "Worser so long ago that few people at school know to call him anything else.Worser grew up with his mom, a professor of rhetoric and an introvert just like him, in a comfortable routine that involved reading aloud in the evenings, criticizing the grammar of others, ignoring the shabby mess of their house, and suffering the bare minimum of social interactions with others. But recently all that has changed. His mom had a stroke that left her nonverbal, and his Aunt Iris has moved in with her cats, art projects, loud music, and even louder clothes. Home for Worser is no longer a refuge from the unsympathetic world at school that it has been all his life.Feeling lost, lonely, and overwhelmed, Worser searches for a new sanctuary a

校外教學出發！這一次，全班搭上的不是普通黃色校車，而是一輛時光旅行巴士，目的地竟是恐龍漫步、火山冒煙的侏羅紀時代。孩子們正興奮觀察眼前的巨大生物，一隻調皮的翼龍卻突然搶走某位學生的午餐盒。為了追回午餐，孩子不小心與全班走散，只好一邊等待救援，一邊和友善的恐龍分享食物。然而，恐龍們突然一哄而散，留下孩子獨自面對一隻虎視眈眈的巨大肉食恐龍！得獎創作者 John Hare 延續 Field Trip Adventures 系列特色，以完全無文字的圖像說故事。生動表情、電影般的畫面與幽默細節，讓孩子自行觀察、推敲情節，也很適合親子一起看圖說故事。● 獲選 Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection，John Hare 無字繪本系列新作● 黃色時光巴士直達侏羅紀，結合恐龍、追逐、走失與意外救援的冒險情節● 全書沒有文字，孩子可從圖像觀察故事線索，自由發揮想像力與敘事能力A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard SelectionIt's time for a field trip! Board the yellow time travel bus and blast into the Jurassic past in this new wordless picture book in the Field Trip Adventures Series by award-winning creator John Hare. Volcanoes smolder. Towering dinosaurs munch leaves from the trees. And this class is going to see them up close--maybe way too close! When a rascally pterodactyl snatches a student's lunch box, the student gives chase and gets it back but also becomes separated from their class. They decide to eat their lunch while waiting to be rescued and end

艾格尼絲才剛來到這個鎮上，她想要藉著舉辦女孩茶會來交朋友，不過來參加茶會的人都必須Plus One再帶一位嘉賓，這時撿到傳單的大維便前來參加，並且帶了一堆意想不到的嘉賓... 約翰·哈爾John Hare，《深海之旅》和《火山島之旅》的作者兼插畫家，運用他的標誌性機智和活潑的插畫，分享了一個永恆的信息：有時候新朋友會是意想不到的人。 When Agnes decides to host a tea party, she finds it hard to shake a most unlikely guest . . . and his even more unlikely friends.Agnes is new to town and wants to make friends, so she invites some girls in her class to a fancy tea party. When there is a knock at the door, she expects to see them—not Dave from next door. This isn't what she had in mind at all. . ."The invitation says plus one.This means you need to bring a friend.And since you don't have a friend with you—goodbye."Agnes is sure that will be the end of that, but Dave is persistent, and before long he's bringing one friend after another as his plus one. Pierre of the North, Esquire, a goose who Agnes deems too loud; Fred, a cactus that's too prickly; Dr. Scalywiggles, a legless lizard she mistakes for a snake; even his mom, who makes great Frenc

Based on the author's life, this story describes a time when Kristen Balouch and her family helped remedy deforestation by planting 1,000,000 trees (yes, it's true!) in British Columbia. When Kristen was 10-years-old she and her sisters came home from school one day to be told by their parents that they were going on a trip to plant trees. They flew from their home in California to British Columbia and joined a crew hired by the Canadian government to replace trees that had been cut down by loggers. They set up camp along a river and lived in a tent. Her mother was the cook, her father planted saplings with the crew, and Kristen helped them both. When they were done, everyone was covered in mud, scratches, and bug bites, but they were happy because they did it--they planted one million trees. Forty years later, Kristen took her children back to see the now grown trees at the site where so much had been accomplished all those years ago. Through an engaging text and vibrant art, we join

黃色校車直升機再度出發！繼月球與深海之旅後，John Hare 筆下的學生們這次來到一座火山島。大家一路健行前往火山頂，其中一名學生沿途採了幾朵花，卻意外滑進火山口，和同學們分開了。幸好，火山口裡並不只有岩漿。孩子遇見一隻熔岩怪獸和牠的孩子們，還發現牠們對鮮花充滿好奇，只是一碰到花朵就會把它們燒焦。於是，一場跨越物種的合作就此展開：用熔岩製作花瓶、倒入水，再一起欣賞保存下來的花朵。本書延續 Field Trip Adventures 系列的無字形式，以充滿氣氛的畫面說故事，讓孩子從細節自行發現情節，也留下豐富的想像空間。● 獲選 Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection，延續 Field Trip to the Moon、Field Trip to the Ocean Deep 的無字冒險● 火山、熔岩與可愛的熔岩怪獸相遇，將自然環境融入充滿想像力的故事● 全書沒有文字，透過連續圖像理解情節，適合練習觀察、推理與看圖說故事For fans of Field Trip to the Moon, Field Trip to the Ocean Deep, and field trips in general, a new adventure that takes students to a volcano island.The same students we met in Field Trip to the Moon and Field Trip to the Ocean Deep travel to a volcano island on a yellow school bus helicopter. When they get there, one student picks flowers as they hike to the top and then accidentally slips down a crater and can't get out. The student isn't too worried, especially when he meets a lava monster and its children who are fascinated by the flowers. But when

A baby blanket is a very special gift, but what happens when you grow up and it comes undone? Is it time to let go, or to make something new?While Cole's mama waits for his arrival, she knits him a ba

For fans of Shouting at the Rain by Lynda Mullaly and The Adventures of a Girl Called Bicycle by Christina Uss, a novel about one unadventurous girl who discovers she is anything but. While 11-year-ol

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For fans of The War That Saved My Life and other World War II fiction, A Place to Hang the Moon is the tale of three orphaned siblings who are evacuated from London to live in the countryside with the secret hope of finding a permanent family. It is 1940 and William, 12, Edmund, 11, and Anna, 9, aren't terribly upset by the death of the not-so-grandmotherly grandmother who has taken care of them since their parents died. But the children do need a guardian, and in the dark days of World War II London, those are in short supply, especially if they hope to stay together. Could the mass wartime evacuation of children from London to the countryside be the answer? It's a preposterous plan, but off they go-- keeping their predicament a secret, and hoping to be placed in a temporary home that ends up lasting forever. Moving from one billet to another, the children suffer the cruel trickery of foster brothers, the cold realities of outdoor toilets and the hollowness of empty stomachs. They fin

Illustrated by a Caldecott Medalist, Kate's Light shares the exciting true story of Katherine Walker and her long, heroic career as one of the first woman lighthouse keepers on the Eastern Seaboard. W