New Junior Non-Fiction
100 people who made history
From the world's greatest inventors, explorers, and scientists to the most influential political leaders, thinkers and writers - find out who changed the world and how they did it. It's a tour of world history from Aristotle to Mark Zuckerberg via Marie Curie, celebrating the people who made their mark and changed the way we live.
Annie Sullivan and the Trials of Helen Keller
The powerful bond forged between teacher and pupil is shown in an inspiring graphic novel format.
Blizzard of Glass
On December 6, 1917 two ships collided in Halifax Harbour. One ship was loaded top to bottom with munitions and one held relief supplies, both intended for wartorn Europe. The resulting blast flattened two towns, Halifax and Dartmouth, and killed nearly 2,000 people. As if that wasn't devastating enough, a blizzard hit the next day, dumping more than a foot of snow on the area and paralyzing much-needed relief efforts. Fascinating, edge-of-your-seat storytelling based on original source material conveys this harrowing account of tragedy and recovery.
Can you survive the jungle?
Describes the fight for survival in the jungle. An interactive survival adventure.
Cleopatra Rules!
Good. Evil. Dangerous. Glamorous. Will the real Cleopatra please stand up? Almost everything we know about the last queen of Egypt came from her enemies the Romans. Now it's time to meet the ''real'' Cleopatra, a ruler more complex, brilliant, and powerful than we ever knew. Cleopatra didn't just rock the boat when she became queen at seventeen. She rocked the world with brilliant alliances that kept her in power and in control. When Mark Antony tried to put Egypt under his thumb, she negotiated for - and won - more territory than any Egyptian ruler had snagged in generations. Cleopatra didn't just play by the rules. She made them up as she went along. She bowed to no one, including Octavian the future Caesar Augustus who never missed an opportunity to pump out anti-Cleopatra propaganda. The queen of Egypt has fascinated the world for thousands of years. It's time to find out why. So, on your knees, commoner! The world's most brilliant and outrageous queen - Cleopatra VII, the last Pharaoh of Egypt - is about to make her entrance. Includes maps, endnotes, timeline, glossary, sources, and index.
Cool Slumber Parties
Provides an introduction to party planning, details the process of planning a slumber party, and includes sample invitations, with suggested menus and activities.
Draw Comic Book Action
Comic books, strips, etc. Technique.
Cartooning Technique.
Superheroes in art.
Dreadful fates: what a shocking way to go
Includes trivia and strange facts about the curious ways people have died throughout history.
Inkblot
Inkblots aren't just for psychology... Just as Leonardo was inspired by the haphazard swirls in marble, and Victor Hugo dribbled coffee and wine on paper to create new imagery, noted artist, printmaker, and Broadway costume painter Margaret Peot takes inkblots to new creative heights with this stunning, hands-on celebration of their beauty and potential. She presents the many insights and techniques she has gained throughout her career from basic tips and information on paper and ink to advanced techniques for transforming inkblots into works of art.
Japan
Provides comprehensive information on the geography, history, wildlife, governmental structure, economy, cultural diversity, peoples, religion, and culture of Japan.
Kaboom! Explosions of all kinds
Explosions are all around us, from the Big Bang that created the universe to the pop of a seed pod, from solar flares to the explosive gases lurking in a coal mine. Many remarkable blasts are a result of human ingenuity - the carving of the faces of four American presidents into a wall of granite on Mount Rushmore, the destruction of a rock to prevent shipwrecks, and the development of asthma inhalers based on a beetle's explosive pulses.
Lady Gaga
Chronicles the pop singer's rise to fame, from her childhood and early career to her provocative and popular innovations in music, fashion, and performance.
Lemonade: and Other Poems Squeezed from a Single Word
Play with your words! A brand new poetic form that turns word puzzles into poetry. Part anagram, part rebus, part riddle--these poems capture a scene from a child's daily life and present a puzzle to solve. Sometimes sweet and sometimes funny, but always clever, these poems are fun to read and even more fun for kids to write. Bob Raczka is a fresh, new voice in children's poetry who knows that fun and games can turn a poetry lesson into lemonade!
Orphan trains: an interactive history adventure
Describes the people and events involved in the orphan trains. The reader's choices reveal the historical details from the perspectives of a New York City newsboy, a child trying to keep his siblings together, and a child sent west on the baby trains.
Poems I wrote when no one was looking
Whether you're staying out of trouble or constantly causing it, these rowdy rhymes turn our wacky world upside down to reveal the pitfalls of hopeless homework, tricky travels, sibling shenanigans, and all the other hot water you can get into when no one is looking!
Ripley's believe it or not! strikingly true
Believe it! -- Weird world -- Animals -- Sport -- Body -- Transport -- Feats -- Mysteries -- Food -- Art -- Science -- Beyond belief.
Rocks and Minerals: a gem of a book!
Mixes science and art to bring the world of geology to life, with wacky characters to explain the things that form the foundations of our planet including rocks, gems, crystals, fossils, and more.
Songwriting
Your favorite song -- Inspiration -- Lyrics -- Song structure -- Making music -- Collaboration.
The Electrifying, Action-Packed, Unusual History of Video Games
The history of video games is an adventure story that goes back more than 50 years. Learn the tales behind classic games such as Pong and Pac-Man. In The Electrifying, Action-Packed, Unusual History of Video Games, youll witness the gaming wonders that have wowed fans of the past and revolutionized the video game industry.
The Kingfisher Nature Encyclopedia
A beautiful profile of our planet's plant and animal life featuring superb photographs of the world's most fascinating species.
The Mysteries of Angkor Wat
Built a thousand years ago, the temple of Angkor Wat is the largest religious monument in the world.
The Nightwood
Retells the Celtic folktale of Tamlynne, a young knight in the court of the Elfin Queen, and Elaine, who is enticed into a nearby wood and, once inside, meets and falls in love with the young knight.
The War in Afghanistan 2001 - present
Recounts Canada's involvement in the war, including the incidents leading to the war, key events and people, and the effects felt at home.
Weird but True! 2
Did you know that a great white shark can weigh as much as 15 gorillas? That meteorites the size of basketballs land on Earth about once a month? Kids will devour more than 300 wacky facts in Weird but True! 2—the second installment in a lively new spin-off series from the award-winning National Geographic Kids magazine.National Geographic Kids is the nation’s largest magazine for children, with more than 1.3 million subscribers and 5 million readers. The brand is rapidly gaining traction in the book market, with the huge success of National Geographic Readers and the National Geographic Kids Almanac. Straight from the pages of the magazine’s top-scoring feature, this little book is chock-full of tremendous fun. It’s packed with even more of the wild-n-wacky facts, whimsical designs, and all-out reading fun that made the first Weird but True volume an early success.This book’s compact size makes it easy to handle and fun to browse. Eye-popping photos and bold, colorful graphics nab kids’ attention and entice them to read. Brain-bending facts cover a broad range of topics, from science to foods to pop culture and just about everything else under the sun. Kids will have so much fun that they won’t even realize they’re learning.
Weird? (me too!): let's be friends
A collection of poems that explore different types of friendships and what it means to be a good friend, including poems for two and four voices.
You wouldn't want to be a nurse during the American Civil War!
Describes what it was like to be a nurse during the Civil War in a humorous manner, with illustrations.
You wouldn't want to be a secret agent during world War II!
Humorous illustrations, captions, and sidebars describes life for a spy during World War II.
