Author : Cecil Castellucci
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 12,33 MB
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0545388104
A startling, wonderful novel about the true meaning of being an alien in an equally alien world."We are specks. Pieces of dust in this universe. Big nothings.""I know what I am."Mal lives on the fringes of high school. Angry. Misunderstood. Yet loving the world -- or, at least, an idea of the world. Then he meets Hooper. Who says he's from another planet. And may be going home very soon.
Author : Cecil Castellucci
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 46,62 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0545060826
Explores the true meaning of being an alien in an equally alien world.
Author : Stacy McAnulty
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 12,55 MB
Release : 2017-10-24
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1250197910
A lighthearted nonfiction picture book about the formation and history of the Earth--told from the perspective of the Earth itself! "Hi, I’m Earth! But you can call me Planet Awesome." Prepare to learn all about Earth from the point-of-view of Earth herself! In this funny yet informative book, filled to the brim with kid-friendly facts, readers will discover key moments in Earth’s life, from her childhood more than four billion years ago all the way up to present day. Beloved children's book author Stacy McAnulty helps Earth tell her story, and award-winning illustrator David Litchfield brings the words to life. The book includes back matter with even more interesting tidbits. This title has Common Core connections.
Author : Eric Puchner
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 29,88 MB
Release : 2017-02-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1501147803
A boy on the edge of adolescence fears his mother might be a robot; a psychotically depressed woman is entrusted with taking her niece and nephew trick-or-treating; a reluctant dad brings his baby to a coke-fueled party; a teenage boy tries to prevent his mother from putting his estranged father's dogs to sleep. Ranging from a youth arts camp to an aging punk band's reunion tour, from a dystopian future where parents no longer exist to a ferociously independent bookstore, the stories in this collection revolve around the endlessly complex, frequently surreal system that is family.
Author : Adam Rome
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 22,90 MB
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1429943556
The first Earth Day is the most famous little-known event in modern American history. Because we still pay ritual homage to the planet every April 22, everyone knows something about Earth Day. Some people may also know that Earth Day 1970 made the environmental movement a major force in American political life. But no one has told the whole story before. The story of the first Earth Day is inspiring: it had a power, a freshness, and a seriousness of purpose that are difficult to imagine today. Earth Day 1970 created an entire green generation. Thousands of Earth Day organizers and participants decided to devote their lives to the environmental cause. Earth Day 1970 helped to build a lasting eco-infrastructure—lobbying organizations, environmental beats at newspapers, environmental-studies programs, ecology sections in bookstores, community ecology centers. In The Genius of Earth Day, the prizewinning historian Adam Rome offers a compelling account of the rise of the environmental movement. Drawing on his experience as a journalist as well as his expertise as a scholar, he explains why the first Earth Day was so powerful, bringing one of the greatest political events of the twentieth century to life.
Author : Steve Murrie
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 30,26 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0545297060
A whole day is plenty of time to finish your homework or go to the park, but did you ever imagine that in a single day you take around 8,000 steps; 100,000 of your taste buds are replaced; a bat eats up to 1,000 insects; 27,000 trees are cut down just to make toilet paper in the United States; and a mayfly lives its entire life? Here are presented almost 200 incredible facts like these.
Author : Cecil Castellucci
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 40,11 MB
Release : 2010-08-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0545283205
Partly based on the author's own experiences at the famous Manhattan high school for the performing arts, this novel explores friendship, freedom, and the art of challenging convention.Set in New York in the 1980s, this story of two ballet dancers (one American, one Russian) recounts the unforgettable night they spend in the city, and celebrates the friendship they form despite their cultural and political differences.
Author : Stacy McAnulty
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 20,25 MB
Release : 2019-06-11
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1250267501
From writer Stacy McAnulty and illustrator Stevie Lewis, Moon! Earth's Best Friend is a light-hearted nonfiction picture book about the formation and history of the moon—told from the perspective of the moon itself. Meet Moon! She's more than just a rock—she’s Earth’s rock, her best friend she can always count on. Moon never turns her back on her friend (literally: she's always facing Earth with the same side!). These two will stick together forever. With characteristic humor and charm, Stacy McAnulty channels the voice of Moon in this next celestial "autobiography" in the Our Universe series. Rich with kid-friendly facts and beautifully brought to life by Stevie Lewis, this is an equally charming and irresistible companion to Earth! My First 4.54 Billion Years and Sun! One in a Billion.
Author : Lisa Bullard
Publisher : Millbrook Press ™
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 33,25 MB
Release : 2017-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1541504828
On Earth Day, we find ways to help the Earth. Trina plants trees with her class. She forms an Earth Day club with her friends. What can you do to make every day Earth Day? Do your part to be a planet protector! Discover how to reduce, reuse, recycle, and more with Tyler and Trina in the Planet Protectors series, part of the Cloverleaf BooksTM collection. These nonfiction picture books feature kid-friendly text and illustrations to make learning fun!
Author : Wendell Berry
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 42,25 MB
Release : 2009-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1582439699
Published in 1967, we return to Port William during the Second World War to revisit Jayber Crow, the barber, Uncle Stanley, the gravedigger, Jarrat and Burley, the sharecroppers, and Brother Preston, the preacher, as well as Mat Feltner, his wife Margaret, and his daughter–in–law Hannah, whose son will be born after news comes that Hannah’s husband Virgil is missing. "The earth is the genius of our life,” Wendell Berry writes here. “The final questions and their answers lie serenely coupled in it."
