Have you ever wondered what life was like on a pirate ship? This exciting, fact-filled voyage follows a crew of pirates from sunrise to sunset as they work, fight, loot, and play on the high seas.
This book explores the work of Mohandas Gandhi and his legacy through fifteen profiles of activists who chose nonviolent resistance as the path to change. The book focuses on heroic individuals who were in direct physical danger and chose to respond with nonviolence.
"This mother-and-son effort earns high marks both for adding less-celebrated names to the pantheon of peacemongers and for noting that the nonviolent approach to civil protest doesn't always work—which makes the courage of those who engage in it all the more exemplary." --Kirkus Reviews
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Pages VI and 89: The year is listed as 1967. This should read 1976. Running footers between pages 91-95 also list the year incorrectly as 1967.
By author: Shelley GillPhotographs by: Patrick J. Endres Product Code: 62922
ISBN: 978-0-88106-292-2
Binding Information: Hardback
Ages: 7 - 10
Availability:In stock Price:$16.95
Lyrical poems paired with detailed text inform readers about Alaska's history, culture, and wildlife. Humorous "cheechako (newcomer) tips" round out the text.
"Readers will linger over both the pictures and the word portraits." — Kirkus Reviews
By author: Kimberly Lane Product Code: 74199
ISBN: 978-1-890674-19-9
Binding Information: Hardback
Ages: 7 - 10
Availability:In stock Price:$15.95
Color reproductions of twelve masterpieces from South, East, and Southeast Asia trace artistic traditions and innovations through time and across cultures. Background information on the artist, the period, the medium, the technique, and the subject of the painting provide context for the art experience.
Asian Art is a part of the COME LOOK WITH ME series of interactive art books which pair reproductions of important works of art with thought-provoking questions and lively discussions of the artists' lives and work.
By author: Anna Harwell CelenzaIllustrated by: JoAnn E. Kitchel Product Code: 15109
ISBN: 978-1-57091-510-9
Binding Information: Hardback w/CD
Ages: 5 - 9
Availability:In stock Price:$21.95
Johann Sebastian Bach encourages Count Keyserlingk to take in a talented young orphan named Johann Gottlieb Goldberg. The Count is an insomniac, but hearing Goldberg play the harpsichord soothes him. Soon the Count challenges Goldberg to combine all the music he's learned and throw in a riddle. Under Bach's tutelage, Goldberg successfully plays a difficult piece that becomes known as Goldberg Variations.
"[T]he story is wonderfully told in the tropes and manner of a folktale."
— Booklist
By authors: Jane Yolen, Heidi E. Y. StempleIllustrated by: Rebecca Guay Product Code: 91851
ISBN: 978-1-58089-185-1
Binding Information: Hardcover
Ages: 10 - 13
Availability:In stock Price:$18.95
From Jezebel to Catherine the Great, from Cleopatra to Mae West, from Mata Hari to Bonnie Parker, strong women have been a problem for historians, storytellers, and readers. Strong females smack of the unfeminine. They have been called wicked, wanton, and willful. Sometimes that is a just designation, but just as often it is not. "Well-behaved women seldom make history," is the frequently quoted statement by historian and feminist Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. But what makes these misbehaving women "bad"? Are we idolizing the wicked or salvaging the strong?
"The mother-daughter team of Yolen and Stemple have rounded up some of the meanest (or perhaps just misguided) groups of gals history has known. And they have wrapped them in an attractive package that makes reading about their exploits even more enjoyable." --Booklist, starred review
"Entertaining and eye-opening." --Kirkus Reviews
"...a snap-crackling read...Feminist, intelligent, and open-ended, this book respects its readers as much as it does its subjects." --School Library Journal
Narrated by two teenage boys on opposing sides of the conflict between the Burmese government and the Karenni, one of Burma's many ethnic minorities, this coming-of-age novel takes place against the political and military backdrop of modern-day Burma.
"With authenticity, insight, and compassion, Perkins delivers another culturally rich coming-of-age novel."
--School Library Journal
"Perkins seamlessly blends cultural, political, religious, and philosophical context into her story, which is distinguished by humor, astute insights into human nature, and memorable characters."
--Publishers Weekly
"I loved it! It's better than Hunger Games!"
--a teen reader at The Voracious Reader in Larchmont, New York
"Author Mitali Perkins exposes a major global issue, perhaps less known to juvenile readers, through an unassuming narration, and in doing so, creates an original work that will leave a lasting impression with readers of all ages."
--ForeWord Reviews
"Exciting, tense, often beautiful, and containing a moral without whapping you upside the head with it, Mitali Perkins yet again hits it out of the park."
--A Fuse #8 Production
The jasmine plant is Duke Cosimo de' Medici's most treasured possession--and he has gone to great pains to keep it all for himself. When the gardener Antonio clips a sprig of the forbidden jasmine for his love, he is sent to prison. Now brave Donatella, Antonio's beloved, is his only hope for freedom.
Category: People and Places-History and Social Studies
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"The mother-daughter team of Yolen and Stemple have rounded up some of the meanest (or perhaps just misguided) groups of gals history has known. And they have wrapped them in an attractive package that makes reading about their exploits even more enjoyable."
"With authenticity, insight, and compassion, Perkins delivers another culturally rich coming-of-age novel."