Twelve-year-old Arcturus Betelgeuse Chambers comes from a family of stargazers and his quest to find life on other planets is unstoppable. But when Arty's family announces they're moving to Las Vegas, the City of Lights threatens to put an end to his stargazing dreams forever-especially when he has to stay with his scary next door neighbor while his parents look for a house. As it turns out,…
SC Cilandak ( Gold / Fluent ) I am a queen. I live in a castle, right across the street from the John Howard housing projects. Every day right after school, I run to my bedroom window and open it wide - even in the middle of winter when the wind blows wet show up my nose, I watch for my knight in shining armor. He's ten years old, in the fifth grade like me, and rides a bike - a two - wheel…
SC Cilandak ( Gold / Fluent ) Farthing Wood is invaded by men with bulldozers and the animals and birds know they have to flee. They must escape to a far-off nature reserve. But the journey is long and hard and not even Fox, their brave and intelligent leader, is prepared for the dangers that lie ahead.
Shadow lives in the forest... It goes forth at night to prowl around the fires. It even likes to mingle with the dancers... Shadow... It waves with the grasses, curls up at the foot of trees... But in the African experience Shadow is much more. The village storytellers and shamans of an Africa that is passing into memory called forth for the poet Blaise Cendrars an eerie im…
This is one in a series of early learning story books, encouraging children through interactive questions and answers to take the first steps towards reading.
A resourceful chicken seeks the help of her farm animal friends to solve a problem, while giving something of herself along the way. Chicken really admires Scarecrow's hat. Scarecrow would gladly trade his hat for a walking stick to rest his tired arms. Chicken doesn't have a walking stick to trade--but she knows someone who does. This begins her quest to find items to trade among her farm fri…