Benny the barmy builder

Benny the Builder has to build a play house in Polly Postlady's garden. But barmy Benny loses the plans. Can you guess how his building will turn out?

Why does E=mc2? and why should we care?

What does E=mc2 actually mean? Dr. Brian Cox and Professor Jeff Forshaw go on a journey to the frontier of twenty-first century science to unpack Einstein's famous equation. Explaining and simplifying notions of energy, mass, and light-while exploding commonly held misconceptions-they demonstrate how the structure of nature itself is contained within this equation. Along the way, we visit the s…

Reading like a writer: a guide for people who love books and for those who wa…

A distinguished novelist and critic inspires readers and writers with this inside look at how the professionals read—and write

Wait till Helen comes: a ghost story

Edition

Ed. 1

ISBN/ISSN

9780547028644

Collation

184 p. ; ill. ; 19 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

823 HAH W

Conditional citizens: on belonging in America

In this brilliantly argued and deeply personal work, Pulitzer Prize finalist Laila Lalami recounts her unlikely journey from Moroccan immigrant to U.S.citizen, using her own story as a starting point for an exploration of the rights, liberties, and protections that are traditionally associated with American citizenship. Tapping into history, politics, and literature, she elucidates how accident…

When Lulu went to the zoo

"When Lulu went to the zoo she was sad for the giraffes and the penguins too." Lulu decides to release all the animals from their cages and takes them back to her house to live. However that turns out to be not quite such a good plan after all...

The lost bookshop

For too long, Opaline, Martha and Henry have been the side characters in their own lives. But when a vanishing bookshop casts its spell, these three unsuspecting strangers will discover that their own stories are every bit as extraordinary as the ones found in the pages of their beloved books. And by unlocking the secrets of the shelves, they find themselves transported to a world of wonderâ…

Minecraft: The Crash

Bianca has never been good at following the plan. She’s more of an act-now, deal-with-the-consequences-later kind of person. But consequences can’t be put off forever, as Bianca learns when she and her best friend, Lonnie, are in a terrible car crash. Waking up in the hospital, almost paralyzed by her injuries, Bianca is faced with questions she’s not equipped to answer. She chooses in…

Invisible emmie

This is the story of two totally different girls— quiet, shy, artistic Emmie popular, outgoing, athletic Katie —and how their lives unexpectedly intersect one day, when an embarrassing note falls into the wrong hands. . . .

The girl in the locked room: a ghost story

A family moves into an old, abandoned house. Jules's parents love the house, but Jules is frightened and feels a sense of foreboding. When she sees a pale face in an upstairs window, though, she can't stop wondering about the eerie presence on the top floor—in a room with a locked door. Could it be someone who lived in the house a century earlier? Her fear replaced by fascination, Jules is…