出版社: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (2013年8月15日) 平装: 768页 语种: 英语 商品尺寸: 13.1 x 5.9 x 19.6 cm 商品重量: 522 g
Introducing an essential addition to the 5-million-copy bestselling Brain Quest Workbook series! Finally, 6th graders can reinforce what they learn in school with a new workbook from Brain Quest. The book boasts 300 pages jam-packed with curriculum-based activities and exercises in every subject, with a focus on math and language arts. Original full-color illustrations throughout give the book a bright, lively style that will appeal to older kids. It is engaging, user-friendly, and written to make schoolwork fun. Sixth graders will delve into research and analysis, metaphor and meaning, ratios and proportions, expressions and equations, and geometry. The workbook covers spelling and vocabulary, writing, social studies, science, and more. Written in consultation with the Brain Quest Advisory Panel of award-winning teachers specific to each grade level, and with all content aligned with Common Core standards. Plus fun stuff: Each workbook comes with a mini-deck with 100 all-new Brain Quest
Book De*ion One of the most important works of twentieth-century Americanliterature, Zora Neale Hurston's beloved 1937 classic, Their EyesWere Watching God is an enduring Southern love story sparkling withwit, beauty, and heartfelt wisdom. Told in the captivating voice ofa woman who refuses to live in sorrow, bitterness, fear, or foolishromantic dreams, it is the story of fair-skinned, fiercelyindependent Janie Crawford, and her evolving selfhood through threemarriages and a life marked by poverty, trials, and purpose. A trueliterary wonder, Hurston's masterwork remains as relevant andaffecting today as when it was first published — perhaps the mostwidely read and highly regarded novel in the entire canon ofAfrican American literature. Hurston's beloved classic--one of the most important Americannovels of the 20th century--follows the fortunes of Janie Crawford,a woman who was married three times and had been tried for themurder of one of her husbands in the black town of Eaton,Flo
Twelve-year-old Lanesha lives in a tight-knit community in NewOrleans' Ninth Ward. She doesn't have a fancy house like her uptownfamily or lots of friends like the other kids on her street. Butwhat she does have is Mama Ya-Ya, her fiercely loving caretaker,wise in the ways of the world and able to predict the future. Sowhen Mama Ya-Ya's visions show a powerful hurricane--Katrina--fastapproaching, it's up to Lanesha to call upon the hope and strengthMama Ya-Ya has given her to help them both survive the storm. Ninth Ward is a deeply emotional story about transformationand a celebration of resilience, friendship, and family--as onlylove can define it.
精装: 288页 读者对象: 7 - 10 岁 语种: 英语 商品尺寸: 12.2 x 2 x 21.3 cm 商品重量: 599 g
This delightful book is a celebration of the first edition,with original beautiful artworks, a real treasure for any Narniafan!When Digory and Polly discover Uncle Andrew's secret workshop,they are tricked into touching some magic rings that take themright out of this world. But even Uncle Andrew doesn't realise thewonders that lie ahead as they discover the gateway to the magicalland of Narnia, where many thrilling adventures await them!
The Newbery Honor–winning second novel in the renownedEarthsea series from Ursula K. LeGuin gets a beautiful newrepackage. In this second novel in the Earthsea series, Tenar is chosen ashigh priestess to the ancient and nameless Powers of the Earth, andeverything is taken from her—home, family, possessions, even hername. She is now known only as Arha, the Eaten One, and guards theshadowy, labyrinthine Tombs of Atuan. Then a wizard, Ged Sparrowhawk, comes tosteal the Tombs’ greatest hidden treasure, the Ring of Erreth-Akbe.Tenar’s duty is to protect the Ring, but Ged possesses the light ofmagic and tales of a world that Tenar has never known. Will Tenarrisk everything to escape from the darkness that has become herdomain?
和老鼠记者Geronimo一起穿梭时空,边冒险边学世界史! Geronimo Stiliton(老鼠记者系列)以老鼠Geronimo Stiliton为主人公讲述了一系列惊险刺激、扣人心弦而又妙趣横生的旅行历险故事。 Geronimo Stiliton系列曾获出版创意奖、安徒生奖、儿童电子书奖等多项殊荣,是一套畅销8600万册的优秀儿童文学桥梁书。 书中的主人公Geronimo Stiliton经营着一家畅销报社,他有着出版人的博学睿智,却因过分的重视原则性而显得古板憨厚。在众多伙伴的陪伴下,Geronimo一次又一次地陷入或神秘或恐怖或疯狂的旅行探险中,而每次旅行都能让小读者学到许多有趣的人文、科学知识。 在这个老鼠记者时光穿梭世界史的系列故事中,小读者将有机会和Geronimo一起乘坐时光机,穿越回熟悉而又陌生的过去,开启新的时空之旅! 你将有机会领略侏罗纪时代的恐龙、冰河时代的猛犸巨象;玛雅、
Arnold Spirit, a goofy-looking dork with a decent jumpshot, spends his time lamenting life on the "poor-ass" Spokane Indian reservation, drawing cartoons (which accompany, and often provide more insight than, the narrative), and, along with his aptly named pal Rowdy, laughing those laughs over anything and nothing that affix best friends so intricately together. When a teacher pleads with Arnold to want more, to escape the hopelessness of the rez, Arnold switches to a rich white school and immediately becomes as much an outcast in his own community as he is a curiosity in his new one. He weathers the typical teenage indignations and triumphs like a champ but soon faces far more trying ordeals as his home life begins to crumble and decay amidst the suffocating mire of alcoholism on the reservation. Alexie's humor and prose are easygoing and well suited to his young audience, and he doesn't pull many punches as he levels his eye at stereotypes both warranted and inapt. A few of the plotlines fade to gray by the
On the banks of the Mississippi, Tom Sawyer and his friends seek out adventure at every turn. Then one fateful night they witness a murder. The boys swear never to reveal the secret and run away to be pirates and search for hidden treasure. But when Tom gets trapped in a cave with scary Injun Joe, can he escape unharmed?
出版社: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (2013年7月18日) 平装: 320页 语种: 英语 商品尺寸: 13 x 2.1 x 19.7 cm