Trapped in a coma, Marianne hears a woman - locked in sadness - visit her every day. It's her mother and she hasn't given up hope, not yet, even though it's been so long, too long, since her daughter opened her eyes. Can they both persist, can they both keep fighting, long enough to find one another again? A haunting, powerful drama from Carnegie Medalist Melvin Burgess. Particularly suitabl…
In this colorful introduction to tropical rain forests, kids will learn all about the animals, plants, and people that live together in this complex ecosystem. Readers will find out that the leaves of one rain forest tree can be 70 feet long, that hummingbirds fly like helicopters, and that the okapi has a 14-inch black tongue!
Provides answers to a variety of questions about the human body.
Turtles are among the oldest living creatures in the world. They have been on earth for nearly 200 million years! This nonfiction picture book is an excellent choice to share during homeschooling, in particular for children ages 4 to 6. It’s a fun way to learn to read and as a supplement for activity books for children.
Did you know that the blue whale, the world's largest animal, is as big as three school buses and weighs as much as twenty-seven elephants? Or that a sea wasp is so poisonous, its venom can kill up to sixty human adults? Can you believe that the silk moth caterpillar's appetite is so enormous that it can eat more that than 1,000 times its weight each day?
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