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Paula Johanson
Looking for real life stories? You'll find them here. Working Parent continues the adventures of two writers raising gifted twins, that began in the popular book No Parent Is An…
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Real life stories can tell who you are, and where you are, and sometimes whether anyone else is like you. Here in Under the Plow, there's a lot you'll recognize…
This readable biography of Lance Armstrong surveys his legendary cycling career as well as the details of his life outside of cycling. The son of a single mother and born…
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This biography details Lady Gaga’s life from all angles, documenting her family background; the events before and during her meteoric rise to success as a songwriter, singer, and performance artist…
Testicular cancer accounts for about 1 percent of all cancers in males in the United States and is found most often in males between the ages of fifteen and thirty-five…
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Biofuels are a much-needed sustainable energy source. Readers are introduced to this great source, which is plant and animal waste. Biofuel options, including biogas, ethanol, and biodiesel are fully explored…
In this engaging text, readers are introduced to basic concepts of energy and where it exists all around them, right down to matter and the atom. Fact boxes bolster vocabulary…
Explores love-themed poetry, including famous American and European poets and their poems, as well as literary criticism, poetic technique, explication, and prompts for further study –
This title uncovers the properties and classification of this shiny, red-orange metal and its chemical makeup. Students will learn how elements are placed on the periodic table and why copper…
An introduction to the physical properties, uses, and dangers of lithium.
In this volume, young readers will learn about various kinds of nonrenewable resouces.
This title in the new Green Matters series offers an informative, often provocative overview of fair-trade concepts and elements, while advocating for being an informed consumer. Following a general introduction…
Discusses how fish is caught and processed before we eat it.
In this easy-to-follow guide, readers are given creative ways to earn money working with animals in rural, suburban, and urban areas, such as at dude ranches, parks, wilderness trails, farms…
The systematic extermination of about 1.5 million Armenians by the Ottoman government during and after World War I inspired the formulation of a new term that would come to haunt…
Every time we check our feeds we create safety bubbles around ourselves. Thanks to technological algorithms, we are living an increasingly narrow existence, one in which the news we read…
This book breaks down the expenses associated with higher education, the various payment options available for students, including student loans, need-based scholarships, and merit-based scholarships, and what other avenues may…
A book for young readers about earthquakes –
A book for young readers about lightning and thunder –
Examines early British poetry from the 7th century into the 19th century, including short biographies of poets like William Shakespeare and John Donne.
Before the Spanish-American War, the United States was a relatively isolated nation, but Cuba’s fight to gain independence from Spain garnered sympathy from America and the mysterious sinking of the…
Examines the arguments for vaccination and the views of parents who choose not to vaccinate their children.
Although writing was long considered suitable only for men, there were some brave and clever women who defied the limitations cast upon their gender. Divided by chronological eras, this fascinating…
The use of painkilling drugs has become an epidemic, with an increasing number of prescriptions being written as well as illegal use of street drugs. Deaths from unexpected overdoses are…
This volume examines the life and work of young adult author Will Hobbs.
HIV/AIDS is the most devastating disease in human history. More than 25 years after its discovery, scientists and medical researchers are still struggling to find a cure and a vaccine…
Archaeologists have found evidence that as humans entered what we now refer to as the Upper Paleolithic Era, they started using a whole new toolset. The evidence suggests that major…
When we’re hungry, we are often more concerned with quashing the hunger than the quality of what we’re eating. This book looks at processed food, which might have started as…
Cobalt (Co) was discovered by Swedish chemist Georg Brandt in 1735. Readers learn that cobalt is a transition metal, and that it is ferromagnetic. Only cobalt, nickel, and iron (and…
Food processing makes a broad assortment of foods available that most people could not otherwise eat. It enables people to eat certain foods year-round, including frozen and canned fruits, vegetables…
Muscular dystrophy (MD) is a genetic disorder that gradually weakens a person’s muscles. It is caused by missing or incorrect genetic information in the body’s cells. The person’s body is…
Young people who have a desire to work with Nature will learn about careers in sustainable agriculture. Careers include organic farmer, farm manager, greenhouse worker, research scientist, beekeeper, environmental engineer…
Working in wool to make traditional woven blankets and modern knitting has long been a primary cultural communication method of people in Cowichan First Nation, but published comments suggest non-Cowichan…
Whether walking from the big city to beyond Hope, or from a secret house in the hills to what’s left of town, the characters in these stories are in transition…
They were stolen in the dark to work for a night and a day, building a tower for the wizard Krummholz on faraway Copper Island, in a place where the…
Who broke the colour barrier in the NHL? A man whose professional hockey career statistics include leading the senior leagues for scoring and for low penalty minutes -- and a…
This book on paddlesports details using kayaks and other small boats with an eye to environmental sensibility and affordable recreation. In Green Paddler, author Paula Johanson reprises her short articles…
Not the worst prime minister of Canada, but not by much, Tupper held office for only ten weeks during an election before reluctantly conceding he lost. As a member of…
It's two a.m. and you've got a crying child and you know you'll never remember this five years from now, but tonight it's all there is.
It's two p.m. and…
Before he was elected to office, he hitch-hiked across North Africa, swam the Bosporus Strait on a whim, and ran with the bulls in Pamplona -- twice. Pierre Elliott Trudeau…
