13th Street #5: Tussle with the Tooting Tarantulas

13th Street #5: Tussle with the Tooting Tarantulas
Author: David Bowles
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 94
Release: 2021-04-27
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0063009609

A silly and spooky highly illustrated series that’s perfect for fans of Eerie Elementary and Notebooks of Doom, featuring art on every page and fun activities at the end of each book! Malia, Dante, and Ivan are ready to take on the evil forces controlling 13th Street. But then Ivan is kidnapped by giant—and stinky!—spiders. Can Malia and Dante save him from their sticky webs? Each story in this hilarious and mildly scary series from award-winning author David Bowles is designed to set independent readers up for success—with short, fast-paced chapters, art on every page, and progress bars at the end of each chapter!

Unicorn Academy: Isla and Buttercup

Unicorn Academy: Isla and Buttercup
Author: Julie Sykes
Publisher: Nosy Crow
Total Pages: 85
Release: 2020-01-09
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1788007786

When your best friend is a unicorn, magical adventures are guaranteed! Imagine a school where you meet your own unicorn and have amazing adventures together! That's what happens for the girls at Unicorn Academy on beautiful Unicorn Island. Isla, her beautiful unicorn, Buttercup, and their friends are determined to find the person responsible for draining the island's magic and stop them. But Valentina is behaving very oddly, and it's not just because the head of the academy is her aunt. Does she know something about Ms Willow that the others don't? With a glittery cover and beautifully illustrated throughout by Lucy Truman, Unicorn Academy is the perfect series for 7+ readers who love magic and adventure. Check out the other titles in this series: Sophia and Rainbow, Scarlett and Blaze, Isabel and Cloud and many more!

Flat Stanley's Worldwide Adventures #15: Lost in New York

Flat Stanley's Worldwide Adventures #15: Lost in New York
Author: Jeff Brown
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 91
Release: 2018-11-20
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0062366114

Flat Stanley is taking over the world, one city at a time! In this thrilling fifteenth book in the renowned Flat Stanley’s Worldwide Adventures chapter book series, the Lambchops visit the Big Apple, New York City! Stanley Lambchop has been invited to New York City to take part in an International Declaration of Friendship at the United Nations! But before anyone signs the declaration, the group goes on a whirlwind tour of New York City. What should be an adventure quickly turns scary when Stanley and his new friend Ian get separated from their group. But Stanley and Ian manage to find the fun in their situation, traveling around Manhattan: through the subway, across Times Square, and—finally—to the top of the Empire State Building. But at the end of the day, Stanley and Ian are still on the search to find their families and friends before it’s time to sign the Declaration of Friendship. Will they meet up with their group before it’s too late? This unforgettable adventure features fun, fascinating facts about New York City! And for parents and teachers, each Flat Stanley book is aligned to the Common Core State Standards, like multicultural adventure, plot and character development story elements, and compare and contrast! Don’t miss any of Flat Stanley’s worldwide adventures!

The Other Wars

The Other Wars
Author: Justin Fantauzzo
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2020
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108479006

The first full-length study of the experience and memory of British and Dominion soldiers in the Middle East and Macedonia during WWI.

13th Street #3: Clash of the Cackling Cougars

13th Street #3: Clash of the Cackling Cougars
Author: David Bowles
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2020-07-07
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0062947877

A silly and spooky new highly illustrated series that’s perfect for fans of Eerie Elementary and Notebooks of Doom, featuring art on every page and fun activities at the end of each book! Ivan, Malia, and Dante are excited about their ski trip. There’s no chance they’ll stumble onto 13th Street in the mountains, right? WRONG! After being sucked through a portal, the cousins come face-to-face with joke-telling cougars that are more dangerous than they seem. How will the kids get out of trouble this time? Each story in this hilarious and scary new series from award-winning author David Bowles is designed to set independent readers up for success—with short, fast-paced chapters, art on every page, and progress bars at the end of each chapter!

Wow in the World: The How and Wow of the Human Body

Wow in the World: The How and Wow of the Human Body
Author: Mindy Thomas
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2021-03-02
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0358309344

A #1 New York Times Bestseller! Based on their #1 kids podcast, Wow in the World, hosts Mindy Thomas and Guy Raz take readers on a hilarious, fact-filled, and highly illustrated journey through the human body—covering everything from our toes to our tongues to our brains and our lungs! WHY in the world do I have a belly button? And WHAT in the world does it do? WHEN in the world will my nose stop growing? And HOW in the world does my pee keep flowing? The human body is a fascinating piece of machinery. It's full of mystery, and wonder, and WOW. And it turns out, every single human on the planet has one! Join Mindy Thomas and Guy Raz, hosts of the mega-popular Wow in the World podcast, as they take you on a fact-filled adventure from your toes and your tongues to your brain and your lungs. Featuring hilarious illustrations and filled with facts, jokes, photos, quizzes, and Wow-To experiments, The How and Wow of the Human Body has everything you need to better understand your own walking, talking, barfing, breathing, pooping body of WOW!

Working North From Patagonia

Working North From Patagonia
Author: Harry Alverson Franck
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-10-27
Genre:
ISBN: 9781018000442

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

The Honey-guides

The Honey-guides
Author: Herbert Friedmann
Publisher:
Total Pages: 326
Release: 1955
Genre: Science
ISBN:

The honey-guides are a small family of picarian birds related to the barbets, the woodpeckers, and the toucans. The family contains eleven species classified in four genera. All but two of these species are found only in Africa south of the Sahara -- the two exceptions are Asiatic in distribution, one in the Himalayas, and one in Burma, Siam, Malay, Sumatra, and Borneo.