Kathleen Kudlinski
Author
Language
English
Description
What do you do when you don't have a home or a family to call your own anymore?
Eleven-year-old Abigail is not entirely sure how she'll find it, but after losing her mother to smallpox and her father to the sea, she knows that it is up to her to build a new life for herself and her little brother, Seth. But carving a future out of the harsh realities of life in Wiscasset, a nineteenth-century Maine seaport, proves difficult, and Abigail fears that...
Author
Series
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Examines what is known about the human body today, and how different the facts are from what scientists, from ancient Egyptians to the recent past, believed to be true."--
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Examines what is known about weather--storms, predictions, climate, and other characteristics--and how different the facts are from what scientists, from ancient Sumerians to the recent past, believed to be true."--
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking Penguin
Pub. Date
1991
Language
English
Description
Frank is miserable when his family moves to Hawaii in 1941 unitl he meets Kenji, a Japanese-American boy who might become his friend. Then Pearl Harbor is bombed by the Japanese, raising questions of trust and loyalty in their growing friendship.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Helen Keller was no ordinary woman. When she was growing up, there were almost no facilities to help handicapped students. Still, she learned to speak, read and write. It wasn't enough to prove that she could do anything. Helen wanted other handicapped people to know that they could, too.
18) Venus flytraps
Author
Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications Co
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Describes the physical characteristics of these carnivorous plants, where they live, and how they trap and digest their insect prey.
20) Popcorn plants
Author
Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications Company
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
Describes the life cycle of the popcorn plant from the time the farmer plants the seed until the kernel explodes.