Oxford Reading Tree: Biff, Chip & Kipper Stories: More Stories : Level 7 (Age 6½ - 7)The Level 7 Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories, written by Roderick Hunt and illustrated by Alex Brychta, provide a rich
A CANINE CRUISE. A STORM OF MURDER. A LABRADOR NAMED RANDOLPH: OVERWEIGHT, OVERLY INTELLIGENT—AND OVERBOARD… For Randolph and his owner, Harry, a struggling artist, it was dog
The world’s most exclusive cruise ship, The Royal Star,has just set sail from Miami on its inaugural voyage. For the hundred or so well-heeled passengers, including Zack Chasteen and his
William Barker Cushing is considered one of the navy's greatest heroes of the Civil War. After his expulsion from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1861, Cushing managed to get an appointment as a master's ma
From the author of Beneath a Marble Sky comes an inspiring new novel of a man and a woman from different worlds whose love is put to the ultimate test as they struggle to survive an extraordinary set
Whatbegan asa singlepoem written on a long drive into the countryside north of Glasgow has evolved into an imaginative collection exploringmemory, journey, vulnerability, and
A spellbinding tale of the sea: love, murder, and mysticism: At the turn of the century, a Kwakiutl warrior from British Columbia's wild northern islands raids an artifact collector's yacht to reclai
Based on actual events, this novel tells the story of Karl, a fifteen-year-old passenger on the SS St Louis, which left Hamburg in 1939 carrying refugees from Hitler. Karl recounts the horror and exci
In a half-red sea, Evie Shockley is 'dreaming the lives of the ancestors.' Navigating against prevailing currents, these poems sail on eddy and backflow, taking inspiration from knots and twists of Am
Blaze maze trails while improving your word skills. 48 little labyrinths each contain figures or objects beginning with the letter "a," "b,"or "c," and so on.
Learning the A-B-C's and 1-2-3's just got exciting! Bright, bold images by award-winning photographer and author Kevin Schafer will captivate little ones as they romp along with adorable, playful peng
A new boy named Matthew joins Mrs. Tuttle's class, which already has twenty-five students whose first names are Matthew and whose last names begin with every letter except Z.
Brilliant artwork captures an array of sea creatures from A to Z in this lively alphabet book which integrates language play, natural science, and beautiful illustrations.
A guide to B. Traven's literary legacy. An initial biographical sketch presents results of the latest research of prominent Traven biographers, tracing his early life in Germany as an actor and anarch
Twenty-six cleverly rendered full-page illustrations ? depicting letters of the alphabet and appropriate ready-to-color illustrations ? teach the ABCs and simple reading skills in large-format picture
Rescuing a man whose ship had been floundering at sea, Isabel Spense takes aboard ruthless privateer Simon Dante, who promptly seizes command of Isabel's ship and sets out to win the lovely maiden's h
This book is of interest to mathematicians and computer scientists working in finite mathematics and combinatorics. It presents a breakthrough method for analyzing complex summations. Beautifully writ
Sent on a voyage halfway around the world, promising young naturalist Tristram Flattery is led by the spirit familiar of his late mage uncle to a remote island, where it has been foretold that he will
In two parallel stories, an intelligent female member of a prehistoric tribe advances the lot of her people, and the daughter of a paleontologist is visiting him on a dig in Africa when important foss
Spenser's interest in teenage prostitute April Kyle leads him to Robert Rambeaux, ersatz Juilliard student and April's pimp, and to Ginger Bucky, another of Rambeaux's hookers, who suddenly turns up d
