Point imprint: 454 books
How Loud Can You Burp?
More Extremely Important Questions (and Answers)
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
How loud can your average middle-grader burp? Parents, librarians, and innocent bystanders are about to find out. This follow-up to the equally alluring WHY IS SNOT GREEN? tackles more of life's burning questions, many submitted by real-life ten-year-olds Could we use animal poop to make electricity?...
by Katie Alender
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Heads will roll! Paris, France: a city of fashion, chocolate croissants, and cute boys. Colette Iselin is thrilled be there for the first time, on her spring break class trip. But a series of gruesome murders are taking place around the city, putting everyone on edge. And as she tours the sights,...
King George: What Was His Problem?
Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn't Tell You About the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2009
KING GEORGE NEVER DID UNDERSTAND AMERICANS
"Entire books have been written about the causes of the American Revolution. This isn't one of them." What it is, instead, is utterly interesting, antedotes (John Hancock fixates on salmon), from the inside out (at the Battle of Eutaw Springs,...
by Susan Pearson
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
AN INTREPID VOYAGE. A GROUNDBREAKING THEORY. The life and work of one
of the world's most influential scientists.
Young readers of this altogether fascinating biography follow Charles Darwin not only on his journey aboard the HMS Beagle but also through the thinking that led him to his world-changing...
by Danielle Smith-Llera
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
A massive tsunami caused by the strongest earthquake to ever hit Japan triggered the world's worst nuclear crisis since the Chernobyl accident 25 years earlier. The monster waves that crashed into the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in March 2011 killed 15,000 people and caused nuclear reactor meltdowns...
by Michael Burgan
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
The long-term damage from an accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant more than 30 years ago is still unknown. When explosions ripped through the reactor in rural Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union, they spewed huge amounts of radioactive material into the atmosphere and caused the worst...
The Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt
Leading from the Bully Pulpit
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
The charming and charismatic Theodore Roosevelt left a legacy that is still strong today. When Americans enjoy the country’s many national parks, eat safe meat, or successfully transact business with a company of their choice, they have the progressive President Roosevelt to thank. Fiercely determined...
The Untold Story of Henry Knox
The Man Who Saved Boston
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
When supplies were running low, Knox led a group of men through treacherous conditions to retrieve weapons and ammunition for the Colonial Army. His brave actions brought about a much-needed victory for the Patriots and saved the city of Boston from destruction. In doing so, Knox played a significant...
Miracle on Ice
How a Stunning Upset United a Country
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
The mighty Soviets were the favorites to win hockey gold at the 1980 Winter Olympics. But a team of U.S. college players had other ideas. The stunning upset of the Soviet hockey team by the young Americans has been called the greatest moment in international hockey. And to many people the victory was...
Daring Play
How a Courageous Jackie Robinson Transformed Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
On and off the field, Jackie Robinson never backed down from a challenge. The baseball legend broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier in 1947, changing the sport forever. It was eight years later that a photo of him stealing home during the 1955 World Series became one of the most famous images...
What a Kick
How a Clutch World Cup Win Propelled Women's Soccer
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
It was the biggest event in the history of women’s sports. And for the Americans, it came down to five kicks. After regulation play and two overtimes in the final game of the 1999 women’s World Cup soccer match, the score was 0-0. Penalty kicks would decide the world champion. The Chinese and the...
Digital Revolutionaries
The Men and Women Who Brought Computing to Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
In the beginning, there was the computer. And it was big. As big as a room. Sometimes as big as a house. Early computers required teams of white-coated scientists to keep them running, yet one of those giant behemoths could not match the computing power of a single microchip today. From the first...
by Kaitlin Ward
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Mailee and Cara take care of each other. Mailee is the star of the high school plays; Cara is the stage manager. Mailee can't keep her life together; Cara has enough organizational skills for the both of them.So when the girls are invited to visit the Haven, a commune in the mountains near their suburban...
The Golden Spike
How a Photograph Celebrated the Transcontinental Railroad
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
In the mid-1860s, as the Union Pacific Railroad headed westward from Nebraska, another company, the Central Pacific, pushed eastward from California. Their goal was to meet somewhere in between, forming a single railway line that would bridge the continent. That historic meeting took place in May 1869...