It's the 29th century. Earth has been abandoned, but one robot has been left behind to collect and condense trash. This book introduces early readers to Disney 2 Pixar's newest animated film coming to theaters on June 27. Full color.
Driscoll embraces the range of contemporary American life, from day trading and multilevel marketing schemes to road rage and suburban bigotry. These stories offer piercing, witty, and often humorous glimpses into the lives of ordinary people.
Can James collect 10, 000 energy bar wrappers and win a trip to Space Camp? Everybody gives him their wrappers. But how can he count them all? Will he have enough?
Dazzling armor! Daring sword fights! Colin longs to live like a medieval knight. His brother challenges him to try it for a week -- with hilarious consequences!
Sara does everything fast--too fast. She builds a soapbox derby racer in one day, and it falls apart. Then Sara discovers friction and learns that sometimes it pays to slow down. Full-color illustrations.
This unflinchingly honest novel tracks a man's headlong--and just possibly redemptive--leap into chaos. Winner of Pushcart's 17th annual Editor's Book Award.
Perry Lafond, approaching forty, knows he's had a decent life with his attractive, longtime wife, Marcia. But he's come to the point where he is not sure that he can continue on. In the meantime, there's the question of children. His wife, battling infertility, is obsessed with the idea of having a baby. Perry wants a child too--maybe. Suddenly, he can't keep his mind off other women. In his job as a probation officer he becomes recklessly inf...
First-time translation of an ancient text Jeremy Driscoll makes available for the first time in English the text known as Ad Monachos, by Evagrius Ponticus (345-399), who was among the first of the desert fathers to articulate in writing the wisdom of the monastic movement. The text is a collection of 137 proverbs composed in a style that imitates the proverbs of biblical Wisdom literature. Besides offering the Greek text and an English transl...
Illustrated with full-color photographs by Elizabeth Hathon.Bark if you love dogs! Then learn all about them in this fact-and-photo-filled book that captures all the charm of these lovable animals. Chapters on different breeds, caring for a new puppy, and those amazingly intelligent herding dogs, guide dogs, and police dogs add to the fun.
Emily loves to play on her Little League baseball team. She visits the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York and learns about the Negro Leagues that were formed when black players were banned from major league teams. Emily's report includes information about the early players, the greatest superstars, and the story of Jackie Robinson, who broke the "color line" in 1947. This title captures all the fun and excitement of baseball, while...
Introducing Smart About Scientists! These books feature fascinating biographical information about the world's greatest scientists, ideas on scientific thinking, and real science experiments kids can try at home. Annie Marcus is just nuts about peanut butter! When Annie finds out that George Washington Carver was responsible for the popularity of peanuts, she picks him for her scientist report. Annie learns all sorts of fascinating info-George...
Now kids can learn all about this delicious fruit--from grafting young apple trees to the transformation from apple blossom to full-grown apple. With clear, simple text and bright, charming artwork, this easy reader is perfect for every kid who loves apples.
