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Talk about a BIG catch! The 25-foot squid hauled in by a fishing boat off the coast of New Zealand in December 1997 was one of the most amazing stories of that year! Here's a fascinating look at the giant squid, cephalopods in general, and the implications of this extra-ordinary discovery--written in conjunction with The American Museum of Natural History.

HEY BUDDY, I’M YOUR BODY! is the first installment of a series on body, mind, and soul called Kids’ Questions about Life. It’s an educational book written in simple language for parents, teachers, and kids who are pondering the deeper, more complex yet so essential issues of life. This is an...

Christina, Grant, Mimi, and Papa head to the big city of Atlanta, Georgia, to explore the creepy Underground past and the high tech global future, but someone ends up stranded on a giant stone earreally!in a mystery that will really blow you away!Look Whats Inside This Mystery people, places, history...

In this exciting sequel, twelve-year-old Jason Carter travels with his friend Charlotte and her little brother Squid to seventeenth-century Luxembourg, where they meet an innocent man about to be hanged. They embark on a fantastic journey to the tiny kingdom of Luxembourg in the late 1600s. Ruled...

Cuando Alexander se siente triste o enojado, le dan ganas de mudarse a Australia. Pero, por lo general le gusta donde está. Así que cuando sus padres le dicen que la familia se va a mudar a mil millas, Alexander decide que él no va a ir. Nunca. Jamás. De ninguna manera. Ni hablar. N. O. ¿Cómo...

THIS BOOK IS A COMBINATION OF LETTERS WHICH WERE SENT TO CADEN AND KAYLEE WHEN THEIR BELOVED HALLOWEEN DECORATION, SPOOKY, DECIDED TO MYSTERIOUSLY (WINK) LEAVE THEIR SAFE HOME AND SEE WHAT ADVENTURES HE COULD HAVE IN THIS GREAT BIG WORLD.

When twelve-year-old Charity Bullock’s parents die in Galveston’s yellow fever epidemic in 1853, she and her fifteen year-old sister, Hope, must travel across the Texas frontier by ox wagon to live with their great-uncle, Richard Bullock, whom they have never met. Their only living relative, Great-Uncle...

The author and illustrator, of What if...ZOMBIES Were Nice, is releasing each book as a chapter ultimately building toward a grand finale. The books are written for the youth using adolescent grunge language and humor. Short politics and actual science experiments are the nucleus within the pages...

In the summer of 1812, as rumours of a looming war become a reality, Susanna, her mother and sister are surviving as best they can while the men are fighting. As news of various battles reaches them, Susanna becomes even more concerned for the safety and well-being of her beloved brother and father....

Menace in the Walls begins with 13- year- old Joshua helping his physician mother at Cleveland General Hospital during a winter flood. Later during the summer, while working in a research laboratory, Joshua stumbles on a menace that has claimed the life of his beloved horse, Mandy. He is determined...

I grew up living a life apart from everyone else. I grew up different, wild, free and fighting for my life every single day. I grew up a spy. From the age of six I was employed by MI6. And in that instant nothing was ever going to be the same. I fought for what I believed in, I would be running missions,...

A taste of Japanese manga: Being invisible can’t be that hard, can it? High school student Hikaru Saito is in trouble. She is failing English because she’d much rather bury her nose in the latest manga than study pronouns and prepositions. To keep her from getting kicked out of school,...

I thought that it was unusual for Manville Fenn to set a novel in a boys' boarding school, since I had become used to exotic settings in Malaysia, or South America, for his tension-filled novels. Here he certainly does not disappoint if it's tension and suspense you are expecting of him. The last few...

Dame Petunia Bladderwort and her remarkable friends, Cyril the modelling gnome, Trent Ranchandler, her trusty chauffeur handyman, are all summoned by the Keeper to help him find the Great Book of Han-Fei.A book that contains all the knowledge and realities of both the seen and unseen universes. The Great...