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For fans of Mercy Watson, old and new, comes a joyful crescendo of favourite characters in a picture-book celebration of the quiet miracles Christmastime brings.When Stella gets the sudden idea to go caroling, she has a little trouble getting someone to join her. Her brother, Frank, is not good at spontaneity. The Watsons are very involved in a precarious fruitcake attempt (but happy to send their pig, Mercy, out for the occasion). Eugenia Lincoln declines, a bit rudely, to accompany on her accordion, and Horace Broom is too busy studying planetary movement. Will Stella need to sing by herself – with enthusiastic contributions from the pig, the cat, and the horse she picks up on the way? Or does the evening hold a miracle Stella hadn’t expected? With tender affection for Mercy Watson and all her Deckawoo Drive friends, Kate DiCamillo and Chris Van Dusen offer a picture-book homage to the season that is perfectly suited for family sharing – perhaps with some cups of hot chocolate and a

Treehouse is getting festive! With lots of laughs at every level in The 156-Storey Treehouse, from the worldwide bestselling Treehouse series by Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton.Andy and Terry are celebrating Christmas in our 156-storey Treehouse.They've added 13 new levels, including a wishing well, a world-record breaking level, a super-stinky stuff level and a TV quiz show level (hosted by no other than Quizzy the quizzical quizbot).But it's the night before Christmas, and they've got carols to sing, lists to write, a new book to finish, and the real Santa to uncover . . .Will they get it all done in time?Well, what are you waiting for? Come on up!

From New York Times bestselling author Gale Galligan, a fun, high-energy graphic novel about friendship, family, and the last hurrahs of middle school.Cory's dance crew is getting ready for a major competition. It's the last one before they graduate eighth grade and go their separate ways to high schools all over New York City, so they have to make it count! The group starts to have problems as their crew captain gets increasingly intense about nailing the routine, and things go from bad to worse when Cory's parents ground him for not taking his grades seriously. He gets stuck with a new tutor, Sunna, who he dismisses as a boring nerd… until he catches her secretly practicing cool yo-yo tricks. Cory wants to learn the art of yo-yo, and as his friendship with Sunna grows, he ends up missing practice and bailing on his crew -- and they are not happy about it. With mounting pressure coming from all sides, how is Cory supposed to balance the expectations of his parents, school, dance, and

An original middle-grade graphic novel from Graphix starring Miles Morales, by bestselling author Justin A. Reynolds and Eisner nominee Pablo Leon!These days, Miles is feeling great. He's in a groove -- spending nights and weekends, and other non-school time, swinging through the city, thwarting crimes and thwipping criminals--because, well, he's Spider-Man. That's what he does. But when the hottest new video game release coincides with tons of civilians - and most of the Super Heroes - getting frozen in place, Miles will have to go to out-of-this-world lengths to bring our world back from the brink. This all-new adventure from Justin A. Reynolds and Pablo Leon is sure to please young readers everywhere!

關鍵語法與實用範例觀念解說！現在就全面領略Visual Basic.NET的極緻表現！本書詳細講解與教導讀者及程式開發人員如何使用Visual Basic.NET結合 .NET Framework的物件與元件來開發各類實用的物件/元件/應用/商務系統程式。從教導讀者Visual Basic.NET各種內建的視覺化元件以及Microsoft .NET Framework的各種功能強大的應用物件類別與工具開始，到開發設計多功能與實用的商務與系統自定物件(User Defined Object Class)、到商務應用物件(Application Object Class)以及各種套裝化的商務元件、本書更將教導讀者如何使用VB.NET結合Chart元件規劃各類商務應用系統最需要的統計圖表應用程式！一直到如何運用VB.NET結合Office Excel/Word元件來開發各類試算表與Word文件的應用程式。相信能帶給所有愛用Visual Basic.NET的讀者以及程式設計師些許的助益。讀完本書，希望所有讀者多加練習及善用功能強大的Visual Basic.NET物件導向程式語言的設計功能，規劃出實用的各類雲端與網際應用系統！

King Viking unleashes his biggest evil plan yet in the latest installment of this USA Today bestselling series!Pick a book. Grow a Reader!This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line, Branches, aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and stamina. Branches books help readers grow!King Viking has come up with a new way to cause trouble in Super World. He has a Multi-plan Plan! Instead of one evil plan, King Viking is doing a lot of evil plans all at once. Super Rabbit Boy runs across Super World from one robot attack to another and another. But Super Rabbit Boy is getting tired. Will Super Rabbit Boy be able to keep up with all the trouble? Or will he need Moon Girl's help to save the day?Thomas Flintham's full-color art on every page brings energy and fun to this action-packed series!

There's a spooky mystery at school, in the sixth hilarious case in the award-winning Anisha, Accidental Detective series!It's Halloween and everyone is excited about the school disco. It's a bit much for me - all that dressing-up and dancing. I'd rather cosy up with a good book, but Milo, Mindy and Manny are all super excited.Or at least, they were excited, until all these strange things started happening - messages appearing on the whiteboard, lights flickering on and off, books flying off the library shelves... Some of the other kids have been whispering that the school is haunted, but Mr Graft says that if the spooky mischief doesn't stop, then the disco will be cancelled.Looks like a mission for me, Anisha, accidental ghost detective!Praise for the Anisha, Accidental Detective series:Winner of the Sainsbury's Children's Book Prize and of the Crimefest Best Crime Novel for ChildrenShortlisted for the Blue Peter Book Award, the British Book Awards Children's Book of the Year, and the

千禧時代的代言人──莎莉‧魯尼最新作品《美麗的世界，你在哪裡》原文書。四名即將踏入三十歲的年輕人的命運故事…我們要在哪裡生活，要過哪一種生活？今天人們還能相信存在一個美麗的世界嗎？The instant #1 New York Times bestselling novel by Sally Rooney, author of Normal People and Conversations with Friends.“Beautiful World, Where Are You is Rooney’s best novel yet. Funny and smart, full of sex and love and people doing their best to connect.” ―Brandon Taylor, The New York Times Book ReviewAlice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he’d like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend, Eileen, is getting over a breakup, and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood.Alice, Felix, Eileen, and Simon are still young―but life is catching up with them. They desire each other, they delude each other, they get together, they break apart. They have sex, they worry about sex, they worry about their friendships and the world they live in. Are they standing in the last lighted room before the darkness, bearing witness to s

In this brand new story, Peppa remembers meeting her baby brother George for the first time!Tiny Peppa learns what babies can and can't do, and finds out what it means to be a big sister.This heartwarming story will be loved by all fans of Peppa Pig, especially those who are getting ready to welcome a new sibling.

You’ll learn all about the different kinds of firefighters you can be in this Level One I Can Read from the community helper series.My brother and I both want to be firefighters, but we can’t decide what kind to be. When firefighters from Fire District One visit our school for Fire Safety Day, we learn that there are firefighters who fight forest fires and work at airports to help with airplane emergencies. Did you know that there are other kinds of firefighters too? There are firefighters who figure out how a fire started and fight fires before they even happen. Maybe I’ll be a firefighter too!I Want to Be a Firefighter is part of an I Can Read series that introduces young readers to important community helpers. This Level One I Can Read is perfect for children learning to sound out words and sentences.

Over 70 years ago, Italian author Gianni Rodari wrote "The Moon of Kyiv" to remind us of the humanity we all share.100% of the net profit from the sale of this book will be donated to Save the Children fund for supporting children impacted by the conflict in Ukraine.In 1955, beloved Italian poet Gianni Rodari penned a nursery rhyme called "The Moon of Kyiv". It was a poem about our shared humanity – the poem reminding us that, no matter where we're from, or where we live, we all exist under the same moon. In the days following the outbreak of war in Ukraine, these lyrical words went viral in Italy: they became a call for peace. Six decades later, they resonate, and feel more relevant, than ever before.Now, for the very first time, the poem has been illustrated by the incredible Beatrice Alemagna, whose beautiful pictures match Rodari’s words in hope, purity and power.

記得那隻太過害羞，想交朋友卻把動物們瞪跑的盯盯熊嗎？嚴冬在即，理應冬眠的牠卻怎麼也睡不著，大熊試著模仿其他動物的睡覺方式，卻徒勞無功…誰能來幫幫牠呢？Bear is back! The lovable hero of Waterstones Children's Book Prize shortlisted The Bear who Stared is getting into more scrapes in this irresistible follow-up title from Duncan Beedie.Winter is approaching and it's time for Bear to have a nice long sleep . . . but the more he tries to get to sleep, the more AWAKE he feels. So he decides to copy his forest friends who seem to doze off without any trouble: he sings in the trees like Blackbird, burrows underground like Badger, and even hangs upside down from his cave-roof like a bat. But nothing works - until wise Frog shows him how to relax, and soon the forest is reverberating with his snores!A perfect bedtime story which will strike a chord with all parents of fidgety, wriggly, wide-awake children!A follow-up to the bestselling Waterstones Children's Book Prize shortlisted The Bear Who StaredChildren will engage with the lovable bear who doesn't quite get thing

Meet the next big thing in the world of official Minecraft novels: zombies!Looking after a little sibling can be a real headache . . . especially when they’re trying to eat your brains!Life is good for Bobbie in the sleepy village of Plaintown. Sure, her villager parents only ever say “Hrm,” but you pick up the local language quickly. And maybe her little brother, Johnny, is always getting into trouble, but the village’s iron golem is there to look out for him. And, yeah, things are too busy for exploring when you’re the only one in town who ever takes their hands out of their sleeves. But maybe that’s for the best. After all, there are things out there beyond the torchlight that are better handled by adventurers.But one night, a stranger comes to Plaintown―and he’s followed by a horde of ravenous zombies. Bobbie’s village is overrun, and her world is turned upside down.Life is not so good for Ben, an adventurer with nothing left to his name but the armor on his back. When dawn’s light

In this hilarious, hijinks-filled graphic novel super-swine Batpig is ready to face even bigger bullies, harder fights, and scariest of all―meeting his superhero idol.Ordinary pig, Gary Yorkshire, has his entire life turned upside down when a bite on the nose from a radioactive bat turns him into…BATPIG. With the support of his best friends, Brooklyn the bat and Carl the fish, he finally feels like he’s getting a handle on this whole superhero business. That is, until he faces a battle against time itself, when an underappreciated janitor slows down the clock so much that a math class never ever ends (the horror!). Can Batpig save the class from never-ending fractions?

In this second Special Edition of the New York Times bestselling Whatever After series, Abby and her friends enter the magical Land of Oz... with hilarious and empowering results!Follow the yellow brick road...I'm with my best friends Robin and Frankie (and my sometimes friend, Penny) when a TORNADO scoops us up and whisks us away. As soon as we land, I can tell we're not in Smithville anymore -- we've been transported into The Wonderful Wizard of Oz!We're excited to meet Dorothy and Toto... but the story isn't going as planned. The Wicked Witch of the East locks us in her dungeon, so we have no way of getting the magic slippers that will take Dorothy home. Plus, the Emerald City is under attack, and the Wizard himself may be in danger!Now we have to:- Befriend the Lion, the Tin Man, and the Scarecrow- Flee the flying monkeys- Learn to steer a hot-air balloon- Find the courage, heart, and smarts to save the day...or we'll never escape -- and everyone knows there's no place like home!Th

範例式引導講述，淺顯易懂由淺入深循序漸進，學習程式設計技巧Visual Basic.NET是目前最受歡迎的應用程式軟體開發工具。Visual Basic.NET是最常用來開發商務應用程式系統以及商務資料庫應用系統(包含：Windows 桌面應用程式系統、Client/Server應用程式系、2-Tiers / 3-Tiers / N-Tiers資料庫應用程式系統、雲端大型資料庫商務系統…)！本書將詳細講解與教導讀者與程式開發人員如何使用Visual Basic.NET結合.NET Framework的物件與元件，來開發各類實用的物件/元件/應用/商務系統程式。從教導讀者Visual Basic.NET各種內建的視覺化元件以及Microsoft .NET Framework的各種功能強大的應用物件類別以及工具開始，到開發設計多功能與實用的商務與系統自定物件(User Defined Object Class)、到商務應用物件(Application Object Class)以及各種套裝化的商務元件、本書更將教導讀者如何使用VB.NET結合Chart元件規劃各類商務應用系統最需要的統計圖表應用程式！一直到如何運用VB.NET結合Office Excel / Word元件來開發各類試算表與Word文件的應用程式。※ 使用Visual Basic.NET程式語言來規劃應用與共用物件／元件模組為主軸的程式※ 使用Visual Basic.NET結合MS-Chart元件規劃各種實用的統計圖表程式※ 使用Visual Basic.NET結合Excel／Word元件規劃各種實用的試算表與文件應用程式

-Students who are learning to read will enjoy visiting a vibrant kindergarten -classroom with -Pinkalicious. --School Library JournalPinkalicious gets a kindergarten buddy in this Level One I Can Read, brought to you by #1 New York Times bestselling author Victoria Kann! Pinkalicious can't wait to have a kindergarten buddy. But what if her buddy doesn't like kindergarten? Will Pinkalicious be able to show her how pinkatastic it can be?Young readers in kindergarten now or getting ready for it will relate to Pinkalicious's hopes and be reassured by her friendship success.Pinkalicious: Kindergarten Fun is a Level One I Can Read book, which means it's perfect for children learning to sound out words and sentences. Whether shared at home or in a classroom, the short sentences, familiar words, and simple concepts of Level One books support success for children eager to start reading on their own.Plus readers can watch Pinkalicious and Peter on the funtastic PBS Kids TV series Pinkalicious &a

Nicola Davies and Jenni Desmond's first collaboration: a spectacular tour of Planet Earth and a powerful rallying cry. Where on Earth are you, right now? It's late where I am and almost everyone's asleep, but I'm awake, looking out into the night. Wondering...As the clock strikes midnight, a little girl and her sister visit animals of every shape and size, all around the world - discovering that, in some places, creatures have just started their day, where in others they're already busy hunting for food. Turning the popular concept of time-zones on its head and combining it with a powerful climate message and delightful illustrations, this book is narrative non-fiction at its most spellbinding. "Nicola Davies is one of the best children's writers in the business." Huffington Post"Jenni Desmond knows just how to make children's precious imaginations soar." Guardian

Ace is ready to race her new car!Pick a book. Grow a Reader!This series is part of Scholastic's early reader line, Acorn, aimed at children who are learning to read. With easy-to-read text, a short-story format, plenty of humor, and full-color artwork on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and fluency. Acorn books plant a love of reading and help readers grow!Ace has built her very own car and is getting ready to race! After oiling the wheels and kicking the tires, Ace sets out to win. But when a missing part and a rut in the middle of the track threaten to keep her in last place, Ace has to think fast to finish strong -- and come out on top!With Larry Dane Brimner's simple text and Kaylani Juanita's full-color artwork on every page, this fast-paced, action-packed book is perfect for new readers!

A proposal that we think about digital technologies such as machine learning not in terms of artificial intelligence but as artificial communication.Algorithms that work with deep learning and big data are getting so much better at doing so many things that it makes us uncomfortable. How can a device know what our favorite songs are, or what we should write in an email? Have machines become too smart? In Artificial Communication, Elena Esposito argues that drawing this sort of analogy between algorithms and human intelligence is misleading. If machines contribute to social intelligence, it will not be because they have learned how to think like us but because we have learned how to communicate with them. Esposito proposes that we think of “smart” machines not in terms of artificial intelligence but in terms of artificial communication.To do this, we need a concept of communication that can take into account the possibility that a communication partner may be not a human being but an al

帶小孩的每一天，都是一場生存戰！Helene Weston獲廣大共鳴的崩潰育兒日常。理想與現實的落差、頭痛又甜蜜的大小時刻，都在這本超誠實又不失溫暖支持的書裡：你也許不是SNS上光鮮亮麗的酷媽媽，但你已經很棒了。This illustrated gift title is for expectant parents or frazzled new parents who might need a little support during their first year of parenthood. Featuring Helene the Illustrator's honest illustrations, each chapter looks at the different aspects of life with a new baby, from the first days of the newborn bubble through to the unbelievable milestone of their first birthday. Helene began illustrating her experiences of motherhood after the birth of her daughter. She found herself frequently scrolling through Instagram and finding she couldn't relate to the picture-perfect mothers who littered her feed. She started sharing her art and was stunned by the response she received, from new parents who felt just like she did. Helene's supportive, honest, empowering (and sometimes sweary) account of life with a new child unites parents from around the globe. While all parents, babies and

An exhilarating new series set in the great outdoors, from HOTEL FLAMINGO author Alex MilwayWelcome to Big Sky Mountain: a home for everyone!Rosa is getting used to life on Big Sky Mountain with Grandma Nan, Albert the moose and Little Pig the pygmy owl. It's busy work living in the wilderness, and there seems to be an adventure round every corner. When a storm rages over the mountain one night and a little lost wolf cub appears at Rosa's door, Rosa and Grandma Nan set off to return the cub to her pack. But it's not easy - they've got to go deep into the forest, and everyone knows that wolves are really dangerous and scary - aren't they?

IntroductionThe new Travel Beyond series aims to embrace the new era for young backpackers. This two-level series is theme-oriented. The 16 units in each book represent different stages of a backpacking trip, with the aim of making learners competent to set off a journey on their own even if it is their very first one.KEY FEATURESWarm-up―Pictures and vocabulary are presented in this section, giving a little taste of the topic and increasing leaners’ motivation.Get Started―Phrases and collocations are introduced here for leaners to build up their speaking competency.Real World Listening―Well-developed listening passages that could happen at different locales while traveling provide real-life travel experience.Conversation―A theme-based dialogue with two sets of cues facilities multiple drill practices to enhance the register of the sentence patterns.More to Learn―Advanced content such as expertise knowledge, useful expressions, cultural notes, travel tips, etc., are integrated.Over to Y

The absolutely brilliant, extra special eighteenth bestseller from multi-million copy selling author and illustrator Liz Pichon. A laugh-out-loud, fully illustrated collection of stories starring Tom Gates and his friends, family and foes! Featuring: A delicious chicken pie Getting stuck in a lift with Delia A teacher swap at school Some tiny ants in tiny pants and the adventures of Wafer Boy... Tom Gates is TREMENDOUS and so are his TALES! ABOUT THE SERIES: Written in diary form Full of Tom's doodles and pictures & his amazing sense of humour The Brilliant World of Tom Gates, was the winner of the Roald Dahl Funny Prize! Perfect gifts for boys & girls who love to laugh themselves silly The first TV series of The Brilliant World of Tom Gates won the Scottish BAFTA for Entertainment! Love Tom Gates? Don't miss Liz Pichon's spectacular Shoe Wars, a laugh-out-loud, gadget-packed adventure!

Calling all Raina Telgemeier fans! It’s back to school for Katie the Catsitter in this purr-fectly irresistible graphic novel series about friendship, heroes, and cats (lots of cats)!Katie loves skating with the Wheelas and the fact that she’s officially a superhero sidekick. But now that school’s starting, everything’s changing. The Mousetress is getting blamed for things Katie knows she didn’t do. Sidekick training is NOT as exciting as she’d hoped. Katie’s best friend Beth is back in town and Beth’s new boyfriend is always hanging around (ugh!). Not to mention that all of Katie’s friends are mad at her. Fixing this will be harder than any skateboarding trick. But with the help of 217 slightly out of the ordinary cats, Katie’s going to try!Can she clear the Mousestress’s name, uncover the real supervillain, and become the sidekick (and the friend) she’s always dreamed of being?“Readers will revel in the heroic antics.” –The New York Times

Eva Wingdale is getting a new pet, in this bestselling early chapter book series just-right for emerging readers Pick a book. Grow a Reader This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line,

A hilarious new series about best friends Bobo and Pup-Pup--a monkey and a dog with very different personalities. This graphic chapter book series is perfect for fans of Elephant & Piggie.Did you ever have a friend who likes doing something that you find completely annoying? Well, Bobo and Pup-Pup both LOVE bubbles. Bubbles are the absolute best--on that they can agree! While Pup-Pup loves blowing them, Bobo LOVES popping them...way too much for Pup-Pup's taste. It's getting frustrating! Pup-Pup has a clever idea to stop Bobo from popping them. But, then Bobo gets carried away...literally! This hilarious and relatable graphic chapter book will have kids ages 5-8 laughing out loud while gaining confidence in reading. Readers will be eager to devour the companion book in the series, Let's Make a Cake! Graphic chapter books serve as a great bridge to graphic novels and longer chapter books.

Flaps, facts and an exciting range of outfits will inspire kids to get dressed for the day. From sports kit and superhero costumes to coats and wellies, this delightful book makes getting dressed fun.

THE WINNER OF THE KLAUS FLUGGE PRIZE 2021A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"A great story about making friends by being yourself and the illustrations are a constant visual delight" Malorie BlackmanGustavo is a ghost. He is good at doing all sorts of paranormal things, like walking through walls, making objects fly and glowing in the dark. And he loves playing beautiful music on his violin. But Gustavo also has a problem. He is SHY. Which means some things are harder for him to do, like getting in a line to buy eye-scream or talking to the other monsters. But Gustavo longs to be a part of something, he longs to be seen. More than anything, he wants to make a friend. So, plucking up all his courage, he sends a very special letter: “Dear Monsters, I would like to invite you to my violin concert at the Day of the Dead party…”With exquisite detail and humour, Flavia Z. Drago’s vivid illustrations tell a sweet and offbeat story of friendship and courage.

Omar覺得替朋友擋一次小錯，感覺就像當英雄一樣帥！他因此接連替班上其他人扛下幾件小事──直到大事發生，老師們理所當然地把錯全推給「最近行為怪怪的Omar」。眼看誤會越滾越大，他該怎麼解釋才有用？幸好，真正的朋友總會挺身而出。Welcome back to Planet Omar! The fourth book in Zanib Mian's laugh-out-loud series, with amazing cartoon-style illustrations. Perfect for fans of Tom Gates and Wimpy Kid. When Omar's best friend Daniel messes up at school, Omar decides to take the blame to save him from getting in trouble - which makes him feel like a hero! With this taste of heroism, Omar takes the blame for a couple of small things other kids in the class have done - without realising that when something more serious happens, the signs will point to him since he's been so unusually troublesome.The teachers are SURE the culprit must be Omar. Can his friends prove his innocence and show that he wasn't responsible for the chaos?*Zanib Mian is a World Book Day author for 2021 with her Planet Omar title, Operation Kind.*Have you read the first book in the series, Accidental Trouble Magnet? Love Reading 4 Kids c

從政治起源到選舉制度，多角度解答政治的十萬個為什麼。A Quick History of Politics takes us from pharaohs to fair votes, packed with facts and jokes about the many faces of politics through time.How did ancient people make decisions? How do the people in power stay in power? Why did Karl Marx have to go without trousers? A Quick History of Politics answers these questions and more, taking a ride through time from plutocrats to people power. What do you think of when you hear "politics?" Is it grey-haired men in suits, shouting at each other in a weird room? Well, you’re partly right… but there’s also a whole lot of crazy stories and weird history in the political world. A Quick History of Politics takes a look at the silly side of government, big and small, throughout the ages, and also explains the important stuff, like suffrage, elections and getting your voice heard. You will discover:How the earliest tribes got by without a leader.How the first ever kings and queens ruled their people.When and how de

The second magical bookwandering adventure in the nationally bestselling Pages & Co. series, featuring Tilly Pages as she journeys to France to wander inside a peculiar book of fairytales. Perfect for fans of Inkheart and The Land of Stories. Tilly and her best friend Oskar are bookwanderers: a remarkable group of people who, using the magical power of books, can travel inside any story they choose. But on a wintry visit to Paris, the friends wander inside a book of fairy tales to find that peculiar things are happening: characters are getting lost, stories are all mixed up, and mysterious plot holes are opening without warning . . . It's up to Tilly and Oskar to figure out what--or who--is behind the chaos. And after the friends come face-to-face with an old foe, they realize that villains can exist outside the pages of books . . . and that sometimes, you don't get to live happily ever after. Praise for the Pages & Co. series: Mr. Lemoncello would love to go bookwandering at P

Do you hear the beasts scratching at the door? Theyve been sleeping too long, and now theyre getting feisty. Do you ever wonder how to be wild and free again?Through a mash-up of poetry, comic fiction

The Perfect Score (The Perfect Score Series)The Perfect Secret (The Perfect Score Series)Perfect Star (The Perfect Score Series)From the beloved author of Because of Mr. Terupt and its sequels comes The Perfect Score, a new middle-grade school story with a very special cast of unforgettable characters who discover that getting the perfect score—both on the test and in life—is perhaps not so perfect after all. No one likes or wants to take the statewide assessment tests. Not the students in Mrs. Woods’s sixth-grade class. Not even Mrs. Woods. It’s not as if the kids don’t already have things to worry about. . . . Under pressure to be the top gymnast her mother expects her to be, RANDI starts to wonder what her destiny truly holds. Football-crazy GAVIN has always struggled with reading and feels as dumb as his high school–dropout father. TREVOR acts tough and mean, but as much as he hates school, he hates being home even more. SCOTT’s got a big brain and an even bigger heart, e

Before Cinderella dropped her glass slipper . . . she was a girl ready to create!Ella, or Cinderella, as her parents fondly call her, is getting ready for a puppet-show contest when she meets an unexp

充滿好奇心的小男孩Nate運用敏銳的觀察力及鍥而不捨的偵探精神，破解生活中的神祕謎團。彩色與黑白插圖並用，隨書附讀後活動。適合剛開始獨立閱讀，但還不太適應無插圖的讀者。Nate, with the cool detachment of a Sam Spade, immediately plunges into his new and baffling case. Getting all the facts, asking the right questions, narrowing down the suspects. Nate, the boy detective who "likes to work alone," solves the mystery and tracks down the culprit. In the process he also discovers the whereabouts of Super Hex, the missing cat.

The true, behind-the-scenes history of the people who built Silicon Valley and shaped Big Tech in America Long before Margaret O'Mara became one of our most consequential historians of the American-led digital revolution, she worked in the White House of Bill Clinton and Al Gore in the earliest days of the commercial Internet. There she saw firsthand how deeply intertwined Silicon Valley was with the federal government--and always had been--and how shallow the common understanding of the secrets of the Valley's success actually was. Now, after almost five years of pioneering research, O'Mara has produced the definitive history of Silicon Valley for our time, the story of mavericks and visionaries, but also of powerful institutions creating the framework for innovation, from the Pentagon to Stanford University.It is also a story of a community that started off remarkably homogeneous and tight-knit and stayed that way, and whose belief in its own mythology has deepened into a collective

Poke your fingers through the holes on each spread to make wiggly legs for energetic babies as they go about their busy day.Whether waking up or eating breakfast, playing in the bath or getting ready

Mission: Get OUT of trouble! When Simon gets in trouble for talking too much in class, his friends at Table 5 have his back. They need to think up a plan to keep Simon from getting grounded—and f

兔子驚訝地發現，山谷裡的樹竟然飛走了！還有奇怪的聲音從附近傳來——像是一隻超級大的兔子在咬胡蘿蔔。一位新鄰居出現，打破了原本熟悉的日常。熊與兔子學會，當改變發生時，有朋友一起面對，就不那麼可怕。Gorgeously illustrated and with a classic feel, this is a brilliantly funny story of a rabbit and a bear who discover that things are always better when they're shared with a friend. Ideal for readers moving on from picture books.'A perfect animal double-act.' (The Times, Book of the Week)Rabbit is surprised: some of the trees in the valley seem to be flying south for the winter.His friend Bear is sure that trees can't fly.Then there's a loud CRUNCH! from Very Near By. It sounds like the world's largest rabbit, eating the world's largest carrot.There's a new creature in Rabbit and Bear's valley, and he's trying to Change Everything.From novelist and playwright Julian Gough, and the winner of the Roald Dahl Funny Prize, Jim Field, this is a tale of friendship, Progess, and all kinds of getting muddy.'Rabbit's Bad Habits is a breath of fresh air in children's fiction, a laugh-out-loud story o