That spaceship is Earth, and it has everything on board that we need to survive: water, food, and air with oxygen. Unlike a space shuttle, Earth is able to renew its resources.'
From stone tablets to cell phones, from the days of ancient civilizations to today's modern world and the quest to organize time and lives, the book investigates the development and evolution of one of the world's most important tools.'
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If telling the truth is the right thing to do, why is the whole world mad at Libby?
Stacy Arrow's first day of school isn't going well at all. She was only trying to help when she told Jiwon, the girl with black hair, that her drawing of herself looked like a cow. And she didn't mean to scare her with stories about man-eating snake. Now Jiwon refuses to be Stacy's best friend. What's Stacy doing wrong?
Miami Jackson can't wait for school to end. But who ever thought five days could e so long? His teacher is leaving for Ghana, his archenemy, Destinee Tate, is on his case, and now MIami's keeping secrets from his best friend, String. Summer can't come soon enough!
At last it's summer. Miami is more than ready for two weeks of baseball camp. No hmework. No annoying sister. best of all, no Destinee Tate. But Miami can't escape Destinee. Turns out his best friend, String, invited her to camp atwater, too. And she's making trouble, as usual, trying to get girls on the boys' all-star team!
Little Pig climbs on the fire truck to watch the parade, and spots a fire at Wolf's house. Can Little Pig help save the day?'
Miami's class has a brand-new teacher, no-nonsense MIss Amerita Spraggins. She's a real tough lady. She insists on assigned seats. She hands out detentions like coupons. She even refuses to call kids by their nicknames. Miami can't take a whole year with crazy miss Spraggins. He has to get out of her class!