One Minute the guys are wrestling around in Joe's room. The next minute "The Book" has transported them back to ancient Rome - and face-to-face with one big ol' gladiator. Luckily, Joe, Sam, and Fred, The Time Warp Trio, have seen enough professional wrestling to make it through gladiator school.
Having been forced to move with her family to a new town and live under new identities, Evie Thomas no longer has her community, best friend, or grandmother around and finds her world an unbearably lonely and confusing place as even her own family changes before her eyes.
THE classic work about improving creativity from world-renowned writer and philosopher Edward de Bono In schools we are taught to meet problems head-on: what Edward de Bono calls 'vertical thinking'. This works well in simple situations - but we are at a loss when this approach fails. What then? Lateral thinking is all about freeing up your imagination. Through a series of special techniques, i…
Whether for a long-term stay or a lazy weekend, CULTURE SHOCK! will provide you with a fun-filled crash course on the do's and don'ts. Each book entertains the reader through topics such as language, food and entertaining, social customs, festivals, relation- ships, helpful business tips, as well as many explanations of daily sights and scenes which might confuse or even deter the visitor from …
Wordpower is not only a matter of the number of words a person knows, but also the way that those words are used, and responses to the way other people use those words. This is a self-help book to assist the reader in avoiding communication pitfalls. The book looks at many of the more common uses and misuses of words, and includes a number of tests covering spelling, definition, usage and verba…
NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES In the tradition of great storytellers, from Dickens to Dahl, comes an exquisitely dark comedy that is both literary and irreverent, hilarious and deftly crafted. Never before has a tale of three likeable and unfortunate children been quite so enchanting, or quite so uproariously unhappy. Are you made fainthearted by death? Does fire unnerve you? Is a villai…
Told through the eyes of a 5-year-old boy, this is a story of adventure and discovery in a cookcamp located in the Canadian woods during World War II. When?: World War II Where?: A cookcamp in the Canadian woods Why?: He's not really sure. One summer, a 5-year-old boy goes to live with his grandmother in a cookcamp. The camp is home to 9 men who are building a road through the woods. The …
Joe, Sam, and Fred find themselves in Brooklyn in the 1880s where a man is explaining his plan to build a huge bridge to Manhattan, but despite their interest in his project, the boys just want to find their way back to their normal lives back home.
What Tom's about to find is truly out of this world! It's the grand opening of APOGEE, the world's first space hotel, an orbital space station designed expressly for the tourist trade. As Swift Enterprises is a major investor in the project, and provided much of the necessary technology, Tom and Sandy have been invited to be among the first guests to visit! When they arrive at the APOGEE …
In Palmer LaRue's hometown of Waymer, turning ten is a biggest event of a boy's life. It marks the day when a boy is ready to take his place as a wringer at the annual Family Fest. It's an honor and a tradition. But for Palmer, his tenth birthday is not something to look forward to, but something to dread. Because although he can't admit this to anyone - Palmer does not want to be a wringer. B…