SC Cilandak ( Pink / Connecting ) Joan Lee knows that she's American. But no one else seems to think so. Joan is Chinese-American. that makes her and family outsiders-so "different" that the narrow-minded towns people think they belong in a zoo. How could that be? They live in AMerica! She was born here. And she's going to fight to stay.
SC Cilandak ( Bridging Later ) A little brother with a pet cockroach. Streetwise Teddy usually stays out of sight of the bully nicknamed Arnie-zilla. But when his sickly-sweet little brother, Bobby, insults Arnie, and become the target of Arnie's wrath instead. When Arnie storms through Chinatown hunting Teddy, it's Bobby who comes to the rescue with a new pet, a cockroach named Hercules. …
The Stone Angel", "The Diviners", and "A Bird in the House" are three of the five books in Margaret Laurence's renowned "Manawaka series", named for the small Canadian prairie town in which they take place. Each of these books is narrated by a strong woman growing up in the town and struggling with physical and emotional isolation. "A Jest of God" and "The Fire Dwellers", the two other books in…
From the time he was a young boy, Albert Einstein asked a lot of questions about the world. He was one of the greatest geniuses of the twentieth century.'