Is the goal line near or far? Is your team on offense or defense? Is the stadium full or empty? A football themed-opposites makes learning fun. Sports Illustrated Kids Football Opposites is sure to be a fan favorite!
It s a story of interracial friendship during the Civil War between two 15-year-old Union soldiers. Say, who is white and poor, tells how he is rescued by Pinkus (Pink), who carries the wounded Say back to the Georgia home where Pink s black family were slaves. In a kind of idyllic interlude, Pink and his mother nurse Say back to health, and Pink teaches his friend to read but before they can l…
from the back cover: George Washington loved animals. What happened when he found a lost dog after a battle? Read this true story and find out.
from the back cover: Los Angeles is a place of movie stars and fast cars and people who are too rich and people who are too poor. An area of freeway chases and drive-bys and death. But there's another L.A., one where warmth and humor and humanity pervade. Where a tacqueria sign declares: "One cause, one people, one taco."
A dazzling new anthology of 180 contemporary poems, selected and introduced by America's former poet laureate, Billy Collins. [from the back cover of the book.]