Kindergarten-Grade 3-Each time Josh and Amy go to Dave's Down-to-Earth Rock Shop, the window display is different. On their first visit, the rocks are arranged according to size. The next time, they are grouped by color. The children carefully group the specimens they have gathered according to Mohs' scale of hardness. When they leave this collection at the shop, Dave surprises them by displaying it in his store window. This educational offering adequately covers the concept of classification and provides some facts about rocks. The expressive, pleasing watercolor illustrations depict safety-conscious children wearing bike helmets and safety goggles. While this book will not ignite the imagination, it does support the math and science curriculum in a palatable way. As an extension, librarians could offer Roma Gans's Let's Go Rock Collecting (HarperCollins, 1997). Jackie Hechtkopf, University of Maryland, College Park Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unav
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Introducing Coleen Style Queen -- a fictional character inspiredby the childhood of leading style icon, Coleen McLoughlin. This isa gorgeous new series about boys, friendship, family and fashion.Having a style crisis? Is your wardrobe a fashion-free zone? Thenmaybe I can help. I'm Coleen, and I like to look stylish. Don't getme wrong, I'm no supermodel. Dream on! I guess I'm just youraverage girl, with annoying parents, a bratty little sis! and acrush on my best friend's big brother. (He is soooo hot!) But thisterm is going to be the coolest! We're putting on a charity catwalkshow. Cue lights! music! and the star of the show with her uniquetwist on the little black dress! it's Coleen! As well as a greatstory this book includes top style and fashion tips, and advice onhow to customise your clothes and make your own cool accessories.So there's no excuse not to look super stylish!
Véritables ? contes à rire du Moyen Age ?, les fabliaux sont decourtes histoires racontées simplement. Ils font se succéder despersonnages populaires qui, par une tromperie ou un bon tour,cherchent à sortir de leur condition misérable. Le plus souvent,l'auteur conclut par une le?on de morale à l'intention de seslecteurs. Mais, dans l'intervalle, il les a amusés par despitreries, des grossièretés ou des scènes pittoresques, donnant àlire entre les lignes une satire comique de la société.
Two men possess vital data on Russia's Star Wars missile defense system. One isted by the KGB. The other is Jack Ryan, hero of The Hunt for Red October,ld to peace. A 4-month #1 New York Times bestseller, with 1.3 million hardcover copies in print. HC: Putnam.
After long travels Merlin has returned to Alba the futre England Likewise Urtha High King of the Cornovidi is coming home as well And Jason is sailing in on the Argo to seek his son who hides somewhere in the kingdom. But Urthas stronghld has been taken by warriors form Ghostland They claim it as their own Now there will be war-against the Otherworld.
Marie Antoinette's enchanting Austrian childhood is no preparation for palace politics in France.When her mother sends her to marry France's future King,she's plunged into a baffling world,far from home.With gossip running rife and revolution in the air,she'll need more than grace and dignity to survive.
This entertaining if routine thriller from newcomer Strieber pits a Fifth Avenue matron against a shattering conspiracy that blurs the line between friend and foe. Upper-crust New Yorker Kealy Ryerson, freshly coifed, nipped and tucked, receives an urgent call from her lawyer husband to grab the kids and run. Overnight, all she has known and loved has become sinister. As Ryerson's comfortable world crashes around her, she must find out who sabotaged her high-powered mate, falsified mob connections and froze her funds. In a dangerous encounter with her police chief ex-husband, who looks right past her, Kealy discovers that without the glitter and makeup that's her usual uniform, a middle-aged woman can simply disappear. Kealy's teenage children, torn from their insulated private schools, join their mother and hopscotch subways to find sanctuary on the wrong side of the tracks. A shaky friendship reaches across class lines as the family of her daughter's school chum joins forces with them to cheat death and pur
After four years, the tide of war is turning in North Africa and Europe. The conflict in Southeast Asia, however, has reached new heights of savagery, and Operation Monsun poses a sinister threat to the hope of allied victory. The Special Operations mission off the Burmese coast requires volunteers. Men with nothing to live for, or men with everything to lose. The two-man torpedo — the chariot — is the ultimate weapon in a high-risk war…
A high-concept new thriller from the internationally acclaimed Dean Koontz about a young man who owes his life to a heart transplant ! but confronts an imminent and far darker death At 34 Ryan Perry suddenly finds himself on a waiting list for a heart transplant. Although he keeps working and looks fit, his condition is deteriorating. Nevertheless, Ryan manages to remain upbeat, and his reward is well deserved. He receives a new heart, and the transplant is a success. One year later, Ryan has never felt better. Except for ! troubles connected to the heart. His new, fine, healthy, feel-good heart. It began with gifts from an unkown person, a feeling of being watched. Someone, not Ryan, transfers $100,000 from his bank account to the cardiology department of a local hospital -- how is this possible? Becoming more watchful himself, Ryan more than once glimpses a mysterious woman whom he tries to follow, but she is too circumspect even for the detective he hires to follow her. He has nothing to take to the police
Myron Bolitar is a fascinating character--a guy in his 30s who just moved into his own New York apartment, and who still looks forward to dinner with his parents in New Jersey. A former pro-basketball star and Harvard Law School grad, he now runs his own sports agency, and also dabbles in the private investigation business. He is helped (and sometimes hindered) by his rich, blond, preppy friend Windsor Horne Lockwood III. Win has some awesome lethal powers hidden under his Brooks Brothers suits!
When she lifted her gray eyes to him, Ace saw the confusion, the uncertainty, in their depths, and he felt compassion for her. Did she think he was going to be rough with her, the way Gibb probably was in bed? He would have to go slow with her, he thought, sitting down on the edge of the mattress. When she didn't shrink away from him, he lifted his hand and gently stroked it over the softness of her hair, then lifted a curl and brushed his lips "You smell like my mother's rose garden,' he said softly."And you look like a rose. Your cheeks are" like pink blossoms and your lips are like red petals" He trailed a finger around her lips, then slowly loweredhis head and settled his lips on hers. He meant the kiss to be a light one, to calm any fears shemight have. But when he was met with eager passion, hislips took fire and his mouth moved over hers with matchingheat.
Baldacci may not be a literary stylist, but he really knows how to spin a yarn, and with McLarty he gets a narrator who adds emotional depth to his characters without slowing down the breathless pace of his prose. McLarty uses his distinctive, almost avuncular delivery to excellent purpose in this action-packed thriller that finds the Camel Club members attacked by three tough customers seeking revenge... Aged baritones ofer no great challenge to McLarty's talent, yet his subtle shifts are admirable, from the toughtful, slightly rough-edged Stone to the rougher-edged Bagger to Gray's sneeringly perfect locution. But his art becomes more apparent as he effectively captures the voices of Annabelle, Finn and a gallery of other characters, including a bitter elderly Russan woman and a world-weary Irish-American man, providing them all a dimension not always on the page.
They wrote it off as a scare story.The Millennium Bug,the non-event of the twentieth century.But they were wrong,because the Bug was real.Is rdal.It's a computer virus and it's about to make the deadly species crossover from machine to mankind.Then Black Death was spread by rats.But this plague will th spread by a mouse.The computer morse.And do you know how manydifferent kinds of computer viruses there are?And just what they do?And just what they might do to you if you become infected?No?Then read this book and learn the terrible truth.
"It Girl" Blake Lively is on her way to the top and the trip looks like smooth sailing all the way! When she auditioned for 2005's The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, her resume boasted one credit: playing the tooth fairy in one of her father's films. But the unknown landed the role of Bridget and hasn't looked back. (continued) Today, she is one of the stars of The CW's Gossip Girl as bad girl-gone-good Serena van der Woodsen. And in 2008, she reunited with Alexis Bledel, America Ferrera and Amber Tamblyn for the Traveling Pants sequel. Blake Lively is one of Hollywood's most appealing young talents. Get all the facts and inside scoop on this rising star.
Series sports agent Myron Bolitar handles everything with panache: his relationships, his clients, and this search for two missing people. When a sports store mogul asks him to "watch over" basketball star Brenda Slaughter, Myron winds up looking for her father, who disappeared a week ago, and her mother, who deserted the family some 20 years earlier. Myron not only discovers mob interest in female basketball but also a connected suspicious death in a high-profile political family. Standard plotting, then, but authentic conversation, colorful characters, and exciting New York and New Jersey surrounds more than compensate. Strongly recommended.
At the end of the nineteenth century China iS rocked by foreignattacks and local rebellions．The only constant iS the power wieldedby one woman，Tzu Hsi，also known as Empress Orchid，who must face theperilous condition of her empire and devastating personal losses．Inthis sequel to the bestseUing Empress Orchid，Anchee Min brings tolife one of the most important figures in Chinese history,a veryhuman leader who sacrifices all she has to protect both those sheloves and her doomed empire。
