Dragon Storm #1: Tom and Ironskin


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Summon the power of a dragon with a young boy who discovers that dragons are real --in this new action-packed chapter book fantasy series, perfect for readers of Dragon Masters and Unicorn Academy! Tom never knew dragons were real. Then he was taken to the Guild—a training ground for young dragonseers. Now he and his dragon, Ironskin, must bond, discover Ironskin’s power, and train to be heroes. When Iron-skin disappears, Tom worries that he isn’t a dragonseer after all. Can Tom bring Ironskin back? And can he do it in time to help his kingdom? Soar into more Dragon Storm adventures! #1 Tom and Ironskin #2 Cara and Silverthief




Ultimate Puzzle Challenge!


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Ultimate Puzzle Challenge is filled with brain-twisting fun and ultra-challenging puzzles, expertly crafted for the most experienced puzzlers. With more than 125 games and activities inside, this collection features Hidden Pictures puzzles, mazes, Sudoku, word searches, crisscrosses, logic puzzles and more. From the puzzle experts at Highlights, this 256-page book includes our most challenging—and most rewarding—puzzles yet. A perfect activity book for kids ages 8-12, this collection is designed for super-solvers who are ready to up their game. This book is bursting with a wide variety of mind-bending visual puzzles and clever word puzzles, all infused with playful humor that will make kids want to keep on puzzling. With full-color illustrations and brilliant photos, this book is sure to please the most discerning of puzzle fans and offer hours of screen-free fun at home or on the go. Solving tricky puzzles is not only entertaining. It’s a great way for kids to hone their concentration and reasoning skills, challenging them to work with determination and focus to achieve their goals. Plus, kids will love tackling these ingenious puzzles alongside friends and family as a fun and memorable shared activity.




Rainy Day Pocket Puzzle Book


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A perfectly portable puzzle book, ideal for use anywhere you are on a rainy day or when there's free time! Featuring tricky mazes, colourful picture puzzles, spot-the-difference, true or false, jumbled sequence and number puzzles.




Young Puzzle Adventure


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Contains three lively stories for children who are starting to read for themselves. The stories are Lucy and the Sea Monster, Chocolate Island and The Dragon in the Cupboard. They all have a puzzle on each double page, with answers at the end.




Mensa Sudoku


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Sudoku for the super-smart Mensa members are known for their finely-honed logic skills--and that's just what it takes to become an expert at sudoku. So it's no surprise that this organization for the highly intelligent has put together a huge collection of these sizzling-hot puzzles--a whopping 534 games to sate the obsessed solver's craving. They start out relatively easy for the newcomer, and get harder (and more fun ) as you go along.




Dark, Dark Knight


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It's an ordinary day for Haley and Martha - until they accidentally wake two knights from a thousand-year sleep. Suddenly they find themselves on a daring and dangerous quest, journeying through the ancient kingdom of Hamalot, in search of Good King Stan.




Puzzlewright Guide to Solving Sudoku


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Sudoku designers the world over will weep and gnash their teeth at the revelations in this comprehensive guide to cracking the addictive puzzles--but solvers will find it absolutely invaluable as they seek to improve their skills. Even experts don't know all these tricks: hidden pairs, naked pairs, X-wings, jellyfish, squirmbag, bivalue and bilocation graphs, and chains, plus the exclusive Gordonian logic methods that turn the toughest puzzles into a breeze. There are hundreds of sudoku to practice on. A special addition is a reprint of the very first sudoku ever published "




Puzzle Ninja


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In his travels to Japan, author Alex Bellos set out to uncover the world's brightest puzzle inventors, puzzle masters, and origami experts so he could bring a new batch of logic puzzles for anyone hankering for something beyond Sudoku. In Puzzle Ninja he presents more than 200 puzzles to solve—rated easy to excruciating—including 20 new types of original, hand-crafted puzzles, like Shakashaka and Marupeke. With clear instructions, helpful tips, and anecdotes about the puzzles and their creators, this is an entertaining read and an exciting collection of the newest, best, and most addictive Japanese logic puzzles.




Civil Rights Then and Now


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Civil Rights Movement Facts for Kids (Ages 8-12) Civil Rights Then and Now: A Timeline of the Fight for Equality in America doubles as a Civil Rights Movement guide and Black history book for kids. It’s a tool for resourceful parents and educators who aim to engage youth on topics of racism, discrimination, social justice, and prejudice from a historical perspective to the modern present day. A crash course in historical events rich in social justice. This information-packed social justice book and civil rights timeline introduces readers to a selection of many critical civil rights movement facts, moments, and historical events in this Black history book for kids. A complete timeline of historical events unlike any other. Civil Rights Then and Now presents readers with facts, biographies of historical Black people, modern historical black figures such as Black activists, landmark supreme court cases, and historical events in a digestible manner and within a historical context. It also provides context for the modern civil rights movement, tackling subjects like racism and Black Lives Matter for kids to understand the present and future of the social justice movement. A resource for engaging youth with civil rights movement facts. From the start of Slavery to the modern struggle against systemic oppression, this book sparks kid-friendly conversations about subjects that are often ignored. It’s the perfect addition to every teacher’s, parent’s, or child’s library of children’s books and a kid-friendly tool for teaching civil rights movement facts. Inside, you’ll find: • Vocabulary lists suitable for developing minds • Questions to promote healthy discussion • Essay and journal prompts with processing concepts and topics If you liked Black Heroes, What is the Civil Rights Movement? (What Was),or Finish the Fight!, you’ll love Civil Rights Then and Now: A Timeline of the Fight for Equality in America.




Why and How Sudoku in Schools


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This book, in two parts, Why and How, is a result of fifty years of a variety of educational efforts. This book explains, in studied detail, why solo Sudoku is a potentially powerful training tool to impact the cognitive skills of most of humanity. Training pure logical thinking capabilities, known as fluid intelligence, can give children mental advantages that produce better decision making and problem solving that come from optimal management of information. Repeating logical problem solving about 50 times each puzzle trains logical thinking. Sudoku makes clear the need for relevant information, accuracy, sufficient information and a variety of patterns, all of which lead to our best results when encountering all mental challenges. Sudoku appeals to anyone who can count to nine. Sudoku is immune to any differences of religion, language, politics, nationality, race. ethnicity, age or gender. Sudoku is very practical, being cheap, requiring no technology, and can be done anywhere any time, requiring only a pencil and a flat place to write. When done in teams, Sudoku is beneficial in developing social skills such as communication, collaboration, cooperation and leadership. Written primarily for educators, this book is also applicable in prisons, hospitals and senior living communities, where self-esteem, independent thinking and boredom can be influenced.