We could all use a break. This guide to the schoolyard games of childhood is "something special" (The Wall Street Journal). Remember recess? It was that refreshing break between classes that cleared the cobwebs, refreshed the mind, and got everyone moving. Recess is the ultimate illustrated guide to the best games of the playground, for inside or outside, kids or grownups. With detailed i…
An accessible examination of Indonesia's economic history from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first century from a comparative perspective.
When some school strawberry plants are vandalized, a lost blazer button at the scene of the crime leads straight to the Naughtiest Girl. It is hers, but how did it get there—and why would anyone want to pin the blame on Elizabeth?
Elizabeth is overjoyed to be appointed monitor again, especially when the new head-boy and girl have such exciting ideas. But one of the second form boys is slowly turning all the other boys against her, starting with a nasty note in her desk and ending with a false tip-off about a midnight pillow fight in the boys' dormitory. Can she find out who has a grudge against her, and why?
Elizabeth is desperate to play the piano in the school concert. Only one student can be chosen and her rival Arabella is practicing hard! Elizabeth knows Arabella is very good, so she spends every waking minute practicing. But piano practice leaves Elizabeth with no extra time, and exams are looming. Will the Naughtiest Girl have to stay in her grade another year?
In 1942, with the Nazis occupying Holland, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl and her family fled their home in Amsterdam and went into hiding. For the next two years, until their whereabouts were betrayed to the Gestapo, the Franks and another family lived cloistered in the “Secret Annexe” of an old office building. Cut off from the outside world, they faced hunger, boredom, the constant crue…