Grade 2-4-The adorable and intelligent hamster introduced in The World According to Humphrey (Putnam,2004) is dismayed to find that he shares his status as classroom pet with a frog.Try as he might,Humphrey cannot seem to make friends with Og,who just splashes him or says"BOING!"The little rodent,who can secretly write,learn,and get out of his cage,also uses his wits to effect positive outcomes of the various subplots,including a new girl who won't talk and has trouble making friends,two pals who get into a terrible fight,a bully who causes trouble on the bus,and the janitor who dreams of going back to college.The theme of friendship is as pervasive as the title implies,making this chapter book a charming read-aloud.Pair this tale with Frank Asch's Survival School(S & S,2003)for an appreciation of animals in the classroom.

Zarafa was a gentle 19th-century giraffe, a simple animalwhose life was dictated by the tumultuous times around her. Fromthe African savanna where she was caught and tamed as an infant,Zarafa was shipped down the Nile--along with the meat of her motherand several hundred human slaves--to the shores of theMediterranean Sea. From there she sailed on to France, a gift fromMuhammad Ali, the "Renaissance Barbarian" viceroy of Egypt,intended to distract King Charles X while Egyptian forces invadedGreece. As political ploy, it didn't work. But as ambassador froman exotic land, this odd animal captivated the French people foralmost two decades, as she lived out her life as part of the royalmenagerie. Michael Allin intertwines natural history with a brutal chapterin the history of civilization, augmenting the clarity of both.This story of one docile animal contrasts sharply with those of thehuman profiteers, warmongers, and interlopers who ultimately decideher fate. But Zarafa's otherworldly charm also he

The Ultimate Guide to Surviving and Thriving in the Dorm Dorm life offers you a great chance to meet new people and trynew things. But leaving the comforts of home for the first time toenter the roommate-having, small-room-sharing,possibly-coed-bathroom-using world of the dorms can be overwhelmingand intimidating. The College Dorm Survival Guide offers expert advice and theinside scoop on: ? Choosing the right residence hall for you ? Getting along with your roommate (and handling conflict) ? Bathroom, laundry, and dining hall survival ? Dealing with stress, depression, and safety issues From avoiding the dreaded Freshman 15 to decorating your space,this informative and funny guide gives experts' advice oneverything you need to know to enjoy dorm living to thefullest.

Original essays by Top Women Writers Julianna Baggott _ Curtis Sittenfeld _ Catherine Ingrassia _Elizabeth Crane Lara Vapnyar _ Lisa Carver _ Carina Chocano _ Rory Evans _ JenniferArmstrong _ Elise Mac Adam _ Janelle Brown _ Daisy de Villeneuve _Meghan Daum _ Amy Sohn _ Samina Ali _ Farah L. Miller _ Gina Zucker_ Kathleen Hughes _ Jacquelyn Mitchard _ Ruth Davis Konigsberg _Lori Leibovich _ Julie Powell _ Jill Eisenstadt _ Anne Carle _Amanda Eyre Ward _ Amy Bloom _ Dani Shapiro Anyone who is intimated by the prospect of planning a wedding willlaugh out loud and take solace in Altared. In this unexpected,heartwarming, thought-provoking collection, more than two dozen ofour most perceptive and entertaining writers offer a wide range oftakes on the modern wedding. It's all here. Fantasies.Realities. Fond memories. A few regrets. From planning it to doingit and everything in between.

In the first book to focus on the traumatic effects caused bycliques in our schools, an acclaimed parenting-advice team offers afresh perspective and an innovative eight-step program to turnaround the culture of cruelty that torments all students. There have always been "in crowds," but today's social pressuresforce children into explosive, destructive, and evenlife-threatening situations. No matter what role your child playsin this schoolhouse drama--clique leader, victim, or innocentbystander--this book is a must-read. Giannetti and Sagarese havehoned in on this little-understood phenomenon and come up withinsights that parents can use immediately. Read Cliques tounderstand: * Who the clique leaders are in your child's school * What you can do NOW to help your child avoid abuse * Times during the day when cliques are visible to adults * Where in your school you should start to lobby for change * Why your "innocent bystander" may not be so innocent * How you c

Finally! A concise set of practical, ignore-at-your-own risk guidelines that married couples and about-to-be-marrieds can consult for the definitive word on matrimonial relations. Rules for Husbands and Rules for Wives lay down the law in a way that's both hilarious and so close to the truth it hurts. James Dale covers it all, from "an appliance is not a gift" to "let him hold the TV remote; it makes him feel like he's in control of something." A gift for all occasions, or just to say "I love you" with a laugh. 作者简介： Jim Dale is the mastermind behind the Too-Bad-It's-Your-Birthday books, the Two of Us series, Stepwise: A Parent-Child Guide to Family Mergers, and The Joys of Motherhood humor book. His highly successful humor greeting cards, "The Dales," have sold millions worldwide.

"[Rosenthal] told a stunning, tragic story and called each oneof us to account for averting our eyes—and hearts—and voices."-MikeWallace, 60 Minutes It remains one of the most notorious deaths in New York Cityhistory not because of who was murdered but because of thecircumstances: 28-year-old Kitty Genovese was brutally murdered, inan attack that took nearly thirty minutes and had thirty-eightwitnesses...not one of whom did a thing to stop the murderer oreven call for help. A.M. Rosenthal, who would later become one of the most famous andcontroversial editors The New York Times has ever had, was thenewspaper's city editor then; the murder happened on his beat. Hefirst published this book in 1964, the year of the murder. It ispart memoir, part investigative journalism, and part publicservice.

The Boston Arts Academy comprises an ethnically andsocioeconomically diverse student body, yet 94 percent of itsgraduates are accepted to college. This remarkable success rate,writes Principal Linda Nathan, is in large part due to asking theright questions and being open to seeking solutions collaborativelywith faculty, parents, and the students themselves. Nathan doesn’t claim to have all the answers, but seeks to shareher insights on schools that matter, teachers who inspire, andstudents who achieve.

The novelist Beverly Lowry was mourning her son’s death in ahit-and-run accident when she came across a newspaper story aboutKarla Faye Tucker, the infamous Houston murderer who was then ondeath row. The article captured Tucker’s innocent beauty, thestunning brutality of her crimes — committed with a pickaxe — andthe stories of her spiritual awakening on death row. Struck bythese apparent contradictions, Lowry found herself inexplicablydrawn to Tucker, who some ten years later would become the firstwoman to be executed in Texas since 1863. Lowry eventually began to visit Tucker in prison, and over thecourse of several years she listened to the tragic story of herlife before the murders and, in turn, told Karla Faye about her ownlife and the life and death of her son Peter. Crossed Over is amemoir of this time, a moving account of an unlikely but profoundand genuine friendship created in the confines of a visiting roomon death row. Now with a new foreword that recounts Tucker’s lastdays

Fingernail Moon,the true story of a mother and daughter’scourageous journey. An inspiring story of Janie Webster’s daringquest to save her daughter’s life. When Webster discovered that her husband had sexually abusedtheir daughter, her seemingly content life changed forever. Shebegan divorce proceedings, but the court allowed unsupervisedvisits between father and daughter. Then her husband was diagnosedwith AIDS. Terrified that he could further abuse and even infecttheir daughter, Janie Webster knew that she had to flee. Mother and daughter embarked on a five-year journey around theworld. Although often discouraged, they found within their physicaljourney a deep spiritual meaning. With God’s guidance, theyestablished and reestablished new lives in the countries where theystayed, finding people they could trust who provided them withfriendship and assistance. Despite the threat of deportation andimprisonment hanging over them, they sensed the hand of Godengineering their safe passage

"Fascinating, gossipy, entertaining. . . ." -- New York Times Book Review They are ten outstanding women of the century. Each had an aura,including Thelma Brenner, the first great dame her daughter everknew. Their lives were both gloriously individual and yet somehowuniversal. They were mighty warriors and social leaders, women ofaspiration who persevered. They lived through the Great Depressionand a world war. Circumstances did not defeat them. They played onBroadway and in Washington. They had glamour, style, andintelligence. They dressed up the world. "Vivid, intimate portraits . . . a splendid tribute to ten of thecentury's grandest, most powerful women." --Us "These women were our geishas, whispering in our ears to influenceall aspects of American life." --Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times "Delectable, classy . . . a runaway hit." --Liz Smith "An engrossing introduction to a way of life that's now extinct,for better or for worse." --Chicago Sun-Times

As a movie actress Lucille Ball was, in her own words, “queenof the B-pluses.” But on the small screen she was asuperstar–arguably the funniest and most enduring in the history ofTV. In this exemplary biography, Stefan Kanfer explores the rootsof Lucy’s genius and places it in the context of her conflicted andsometimes bitter personal life. Ball of Fire gives us Lucy in all her contradictions. Here is thebeauty who became a master of knock-down slapstick; the controlfreak whose comic alter ego thrived on chaos, the worshipful TVhousewife whose real marriage ended in public disaster. Here, too,is an intimate view of the dawn of television and of the Americathat embraced it. Charming, informative, touching. andlaugh-out-loud funny, this is the book Lucy’s fans have beenwaiting for.

In 1960 the government of Trinidad invited V. S. Naipaul torevisit his native country and record his impressions. In thisclassic of modern travel writing he has created a deft andremarkably prescient portrait of Trinidad and four adjacentCaribbean societies–countries haunted by the legacies of slaveryand colonialism and so thoroughly defined by the norms of Empirethat they can scarcely believe that the Empire is ending. In The Middle Passage , Naipaul watches a Trinidadian movieaudience greeting Humphrey Bogart’s appearance with cries of “Thatis man!” He ventures into a Trinidad slum so insalubrious that thelocals call it the Gaza Strip. He follows a racially chargedelection campaign in British Guiana (now Guyana) and marvels at theGallic pretension of Martinique society, which maintains thefiction that its roads are extensions of France’s routesnationales. And throughout he relates the ghastly episodes ofthe region’s colonial past and shows how they continue to informits language, politics, a

One day in Ventura, California, Jonell McLain saw a beautifuldiamond necklace in a jewelry store window and wondered: Why arepersonal luxuries so plentiful yet accessible to so few? What if weshared what we desired? Several weeks, dozens of phone calls, andone great leap of faith later, Jonell and twelve other women boughtthe necklace together–to be passed along among them all. The dazzling treasure weaves in and out of each woman’s life,reflecting her past, defining her present, making promises for herfuture. Lending sparkle in surprising and unexpected ways, thenecklace comes to mean something dramatically different to each ofthe thirteen women. With vastly dissimilar histories and lives,they transcend their individual personalities and politics to jointogether in an uncommon journey–and what started as a quirky socialexperiment becomes something far richer and deeper.

The gripping and inspiring story of two extraordinarywomen--from their imprisonment by the Taliban to their rescue byU.S. Special Forces. When Dayna Curry and Heather Mercer arrived in Afghanistan, theyhad come to help bring a better life and a little hope to some ofthe poorest and most oppressed people in the world. Within a fewmonths, their lives were thrown into chaos as they became pawns inhistoric international events. They were arrested by the rulingTaliban government for teaching about Christianity to the peoplewith whom they worked. In the middle of their trial, the events ofSeptember 11, 2001, led to the international war on terrorism, withthe Taliban a primary target. While many feared Curry and Mercercould not survive in the midst of war, Americans nonetheless prayedfor their safe return, and in November their prayers wereanswered. In Prisoners of Hope, Dayna Curry and Heather Mercer tell thestory of their work in Afghanistan, their love for the people theyserved, their arrest, t

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