Discover how Peter Parker becomes Spider-Man, how Scott Lang becomes Ant-Man, and how Sam Wilson becomes Falcon! This level one reader bind up features three stories (This is Falcon, This is Spider-Man, and This is Ant-Man) and comes with an accompanying audio CD featuring word-for-word narration of the text.

This board book version of Martin Luther King Jr. – from the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy bestselling Little People, BIG DREAMS series – introduces the youngest dreamers to the inspiring minister and civil rights activist. Little Martin grew up in a family of preachers: his dad was a preacher, his uncle was a preacher, his grandfather was a preacher… so maybe he’d become a great preacher too. One day, a friend invited him to play at his house. Martin was shocked when his mother wouldn’t let him in because he was black. That day he realized there was something terribly unfair going on. Martin believed that no one should remain silent and accept something if it's wrong. And he promised himself that – when he grew up – he’d fight injustice with the most powerful weapon of all: words. Babies and toddlers will love to snuggle as you read to them the engaging story of this extraordinary activist, and wi

Stephen Digges is the kind of angry adolescent a lot ofparents would have given up on. He is out of control by the time heis 13 -- running with gangs, stealing cars, fooling around withdrugs and guns, and in general making his family’s life hell.Confronted with his growing recklessness and defiance, his mother,the poet Deborah Digges, decides to try to accept Stephen on hisown terms--a course that stuns her family and leads to the breakupof her second marriage. Digges “shadows” him on his late-nightforays so that she can understand his world, welcomes his gang intotheir apartment, and tries to see life through his eyes. When shediscovers that children who are devoted to animals have an easiertime forming attachments to other people, she fills their home witha menagerie of ailing or abandoned pets. She also turns to anunconventional therapist who offers unusual — but helpful —treatment. The Stardust Lounge isn’t your usual story of rebelliousadolescence. The power of Digges’s memoi

The push for students to excel at school and get into the bestcolleges has never been more intense. In this invaluable new book,the bestselling co-author of Raising Cain addressesAmerica’s performance-driven obsession with the accomplishments ofits kids–and provides a deeply humane response. “How was school?” These three words contain a world of desire onthe part of parents to know what their children are learning andexperiencing in school each day. Children may not divulge much, butpsychologist Michael Thompson suggests that the answers are thereif we know how to read the clues and–equally important–if weremember our own school days. School, Thompson reminds us, occupies more waking hours than kidsspend at home; and school is full not just of studies but of humanemotion–excitement, fear, envy, love, anger, sexuality, boredom,competitiveness. Through richly detailed interviews, casehistories, and student e-mail journals, including those of his ownchildren, Thompson illuminates the deeper psyc