Cam and her classmates are attending the dedication of a new library for their school. Since the governor, who is running for president, is also attending, police officers and Secret service agents are there as well. BANG! Nearly everyone in the room drops to the ground when a loud noise--that sounds like a gunshot---goes off. The Secret service agents think it's a student prank. CLICK! Cam dis…
One of the most moving and meaningful plays in American theatre--based on the famed Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925, in which a Tennessee teacher was tried for teaching evolution--now on Broadway starring Tony Award Winners Christopher Plummer and Brian Dennehy, and Directed by Tony Award Winner Doug Hughes The accused was a slight, frightened man who had deliberately broken the law. His trial w…
Four popular and well-loved authors share their expertise, offering a wide variety of styles for readers to admire and emulate.
from the back cover: 'I like work. I find it interesting . . . I can sit and look at it for hours.' With ideas like this, perhaps it is not a good idea to spend a holiday taking a boat trip up the River Thames. But this is what the three friends - and Montmorency the dog - decide to do. It is the sort of holiday that is fun to remember afterwards, but not so much fun to wake up to early on a …
The winning nonfiction team returns with a larger-than-life math book that is sure to fascinate young readers. Huge numbers are hard to comprehend. This book explains quantities in terms children can understand. For example, one million dollars could buy two full pizzas a day for more than sixty-eight years.
Jerome Bruner argues that the cognitive revolution, with its current fixation on mind as "information processor; " has led psychology away from the deeper objective of understanding mind as a creator of meanings. Only by breaking out of the limitations imposed by a computational model of mind can we grasp the special interaction through which mind both constitutes and is constituted by culture.
When Cam, her friend Eric, and her father stop for pizza while they are at the mall, Cam must rely on her photographic memory to locate her missing jacket. Reprint.