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The Mockeries of the Galaxy
The Unauthorized Parody of The Guardians of the Galaxy
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2018
Everyone in the galaxy wants the Plot Device…especially the looming orange supervillain Big Vicious Dude, Lord of All the Galactic Places He Feels Like and his Vice Lord Whinin the Finger Pointer. Clearly, the galaxy needs a hero! Too bad all they’ve got is man-child Quitter Pill, Grapesoda the...
The English Teacher's Guide to the Hamilton Musical
Symbols, Allegory, Metafiction, and Clever Language
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2018
The high school or college English class offers a long list of technical terms: Symbolism, Irony, Metafiction, Allegory, Metaphor… With such a barrage, it can be tough to sort them all out. Yet here’s the list, from Absurdity to Zeugma, all defined through the clever wordplay of Hamilton. In fact,...
The Women of Orphan Black
Faces of the Feminist Spectrum
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
Orphan Black’s Tatiana Maslany plays a host of the show’s main characters, all clones of an illegal experiment. The mighty heroines save one another and destroy the patriarchy while subverting gender expectations. The feminist clones are Sarah, who clashes with her radical feminist foster-mother;...
Star Wars Meets the Eras of Feminism
Weighing All the Galaxy’s Women Great and Small
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
Star Wars defined popular, big-screen science fiction. Still, what many viewers best recall is assertive, hilarious Leia, the diminutive princess with a giant blaster who had to save them all. As the 1977 film arrived, women were marching for equality and demanding equal pay, with few onscreen role...
by Valerie O. Patterson
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Ninth-grader Jess Westmark had the best of intentions when she started Operation Oleander to raise money for a girls’ orphanage in Kabul. She named her charity for the oleander that grows both in her Florida hometown and in Afghanistan, where her father is deployed. But on one of her father's trips...
by Valerie Bodden
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Do you enjoy performing experiments or studying how the universe works? Growing up in China, Chien-Shiung Wu enjoyed learning about science. As an adult, she earned her PhD in physics and made a discovery that changed the field forever.
Wu came to the United States to study physics. Soon she...
Sailors, Whalers, Fantastic Sea Voyages
An Activity Guide to North American Sailing Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2003
Children are fascinated with sailing ships, lighthouses, whaling, shipwrecks, and mutinies, and these 50-plus activities will provide them with a boatful of fun. This activity guide shows kids what life was like for the greenhands, old salts, and captains on the high seas during the great age of sail...
Margaret, Midnight, and the Alaskan Sled Dog Musher
The Alaskan Sled Dog Musher
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Margaret, Midnight, and the Alaskan Sled Dog Musher present a delightful tale for anyone who has ever had a dog for a best friend.
Margaret and Midnight: Run the Race
Run the Race
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Margaret and Midnight: Run the Race, tells the story of a young girl growing up in Alaska with her new puppy, who instantly becomes her best friend, and their many adventures that follow. It is a story about love, devotion, hard work, family, and goals. All these make life worth living and make our futures bright and beautiful.
by Valerie King
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
Visitors anticipating a fun-filled day of adventure, arrive at the Happy Zoo in Dallas only to discover the zoo has been robbed! According to the news reporter Miss Tellit, all of the animals have been stolen and no one knows how this happened. Can you imagine such a thing? I wonder what’s really going on at the Happy Zoo.
by Valerie Bodden
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Do you enjoy playing computer games or learning programming code? As a child, Ada Lovelace loved learning about math and science. As an adult, she used that knowledge to create the first computer program—before electronic computers even existed!
When Lovelace was a child, girls didn't typically...
Different Cultures, Mixing Colours
Australian Aboriginal Colouring in Book with a Difference
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
The objective of our design is to help people from other cultures to accept our culture and let them know there's nothing to be afraid because beauty also comes from within aboriginal people.
Most importantly, this is our way of telling aboriginal children to have pride in themselves and their...
Called to Defend
An Apologetics Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
Why do you believe what you believe? Aren't you arrogant for thinking that you're right and everyone else is wrong? Isn't Christianity just a bunch of mythology?
These questions won't wait until high school. They won't wait until college, and they definitely won't wait until you decide you're...
by Valerie Connelly
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
When a child says to a grandparent, “Tell me a story,” and adds the idea “from your childhood,” the grandparent is blessed and (only gently) cursed at the same time. Suddenly, the young years of life flash in the mind, and the question is, “”How can I tell him about that? Well, nothing is...