A young alchemist turns to dark magic when a deadly plague sweeps through her homeland in this epic fantasy from New York Times bestselling author Beth Revis.Seventeen-year-old Nedra Brysstain leaves her home in the rural, northern territories of Lunar Island to attend the prestigious Yugen Academy ..
Help children improve their writing while learning important grammar and punctuation rules. These colorful activity books make language skill practice fun!Skill Sharpeners: Grammar and Punctuation provides visually engaging reading selections, activities, and word games that will motivate your child..
A delightful, well-written, and vastly informative ethnographic study, this is an account of Fernea's two-year stay in a tiny rural village in Iraq, where she assumed the dress and sheltered life of a harem woman...
The must-have New York Times bestseller that tells you what to do now for a child with autism, ADD, ADHD, OCD, and other disordersFor any child with challenges, early intervention is essential and parents need a plan that they can implement right away. Jenny McCarthy, one of the country's ..
Travel to a galaxy far, far away in the first volume of an all-new series as a rotating cast of characters (and creators!) journey through Star Wars history! Stories range from before the events of Episode I: The Phantom Menace all the way up to Episode VIII: The Last Jedi. Characters major and mino..
Retelling their triumphs and adversities, Brilliant Women celebrates gifted and talented women who followed their dreams and changed the world in which we live.Discover the life stories of Heroic Leaders and Activists from around the world, including education campaigner Malala Yousafzai, feminist p..
What's a hedgehog to do on a sunny day except take a walk? Mama hedgehog just can't resist - even though her litter of hoglets is nearly due. As she wanders further and further from home, rain and thunder roll in. Desperate, Mama finds shelter in an old pot. But it turns out this is no ordinary pot ..
Acclaimed history writer William Weir takes on the most common myths that our school textbooks have proliferated through the years. He not only uncovers some startling untruths, but also he exposes the reasoning behind each lie and examines why the myths keep going. The true stories behind historic..
An award-winning novel about a girl on the verge of losing herself and the unlikely journey to recovery after she is removed from anything and everyone she knows to be home.Moving from Trinidad to Canada wasn't her idea. But after being hospitalized for depression, her mother sees it as the only opt..
A darkly humorous new collection of poems by the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author of Wideawake Field and Amity and ProsperityIf Men, Then, Eliza Griswold’s second poetry collection, charts a radical spiritual journey through catastrophe. Griswold’s language is forthright and intimate as ..
Decades before cornbread, shrimp and grits, and peach cobbler were mainstays on menus everywhere, Edna Lewis was pioneering the celebration of seasonal food as a distinctly American cuisine.In this James Beard Foundation Cookbook Hall of Fame-inducted cookbook, Miss Lewis (as she was almost universa..
This timely, moving debut novel follows a teen's efforts to keep his family together as his parents face deportation.Mateo Garcia and his younger sister, Sophie, have been taught to fear one word for as long as they can remember: deportation. Over the past few years, however, the fear that their und..