The storm and the minotaur

Money is scarce in George’s family and so at the age of nine he has to join his father underground, hewing coal in the local mine. It’s far from the dreams George had of continuing his education, and it’s also a dangerous way to earn a living that has already claimed the life of his dad’s older brother. Not long after he starts work, a summer storm leads to flooding in the mine. Trap…

The mermaid in the millpond

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

9781800900493

Collation

120 p. ; ill. ; 20 cm

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Call Number

F STR t

The richest man in Babylon: the success secrets of the ancients

Edition

Ed. 1

ISBN/ISSN

9789815144949

Collation

180 p. ; 21 cm

Series Title

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Call Number

650 CLA T

Montessori: letter work

Learn letters the Montessori way! Based on the proven Montessori teaching method, the board book Letter Work introduces readers to letters by their sounds and shapes first—featuring illustrations by Alyssa Nassner. Written by Bobby and June George, founders of the Baan Dek Montessori School, Letter Work is part of the Abrams Montessori series that introduces young readers to key concepts b…

My side of the mountain

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

9780142401118

Collation

177 p. ; 18 cm

Series Title

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Call Number

800 CRA m

The boy at the window

Will Hugo heed the pleas of the fog-shrouded figure at the window and welcome him inside? A spine-tingling ghost story from bestselling author Lucy Strange. Folk say the fog plays tricks – that it shapes itself into little hands and frightened faces that press at people’s doors and windows, desperate to come inside. But Hugo is convinced the ghost he has seen at the window is no trick of…

George and the unbreakable code

George and Annie are off on another cosmic adventure to figure out why strange things are happening on Earth in the fourth book of the George’s Secret Key series from Stephen and Lucy Hawking. George and his best friend Annie haven’t had any space adventures for a while and they’re missing the excitement. But not for long, because seriously strange things have started happening. Ban…

The invention of the telephone

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

9781474752848

Collation

32 p. ; ill. ; 23 cm

Series Title

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Call Number

608 BEE t

A swim in a pond in the rain: In which four russians give a master class on w…

For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA students at Syracuse University. In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, he shares a version of that class with us, offering some of what he and his students have discovered together over the years. Paired with iconic short stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Gogol, the seven essays in thi…

The river spirit

Young chimney sweep Tom has started seeing strange, supernatural things – fairies in the flowers by the river, a soot monster crouching in the darkness of a chimney, and then the mysterious river spirit Elle. Elle joins Tom and the other children apprenticed to cruel master sweep Mister Crow. Together, they shimmy up the town's narrow, filthy chimneys. But Tom has an ominous feeling in his bo…