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The instant New York Times bestseller featured on NPR's Weekend Edition with Scott Simon! B. J. Novak (bestselling author of The Book With No Pictures) described this groundbreaking poetry collection as "Smart and sweet, wild and wicked, brilliantly funny--it's everything a book for kids should...

This hilarious follow-up to the New York Times bestselling poetry book I'm Just No Good at Rhyming is full of surprising twists of wit and wordplay that will have readers rolling on the floor laughing! “Highly recommended, it gets 5 stars and 8 moons and a chef's kiss and a tip of the hat and...

The Call of the Wild is a short adventure novel by Jack London, published in 1903 and set in Yukon, Canada, during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush, when strong sled dogs were in high demand. The central character of the novel is a dog named Buck. The story opens at a ranch in Santa Clara Valley, California, when Buck is stolen from his home and sold into service as a sled dog in Alaska.

It was in the early days in Fiji, when John Starhurst arose in the mission house at Rewa Village and announced his intention of carrying the gospel throughout all Viti Levu. Now Viti Levu means the "Great Land," it being the largest island in a group composed of many large islands, to say nothing of hundreds of small ones. Here and there on the coasts, living by most precarious tenure, was a sprinkling of missionaries, traders, beche-de-mer fishers, and whaleship deserters.

Some people believe that the easiest journey is the one with the fewest obstacles along the way. However, it’s the adversity that we experience throughout our lives that provides our greatest growth, development, and fulfillment. If we can muster the courage and persistence to “go thru” these obstacles while maintaining a positive mental attitude, we will find our unique expert power on the other side.

In all the horrific corners of the Civil War, there was no hell worse than Andersonville, the Confederate prison camp. Less infamous but equally inhumane was a Yankee prison camp run by General Thomas Wainwright. In the war’s aftermath, a survivor of Wainwright’s cruelty summons Joe Buckhorn to New Orleans, and asks the gunslinger to kill the general — not simply for revenge, but to stop another atrocity.

It’s hard living on the Colorado frontier — especially when you’ve got a bounty on your head. Ever since Cuno Massey killed Vince Evans, the no-good son of wealthy rancher Franklin Evans, men have been hunting his head for its sizeable bounty. Men like the big bear of a bounty hunter, Ruben Pacheca, the most fearsome tracker of them all, who robs and rapes as he hunts. And it’s anyone’s guess whether Cuno’s new love, a sassy outlaw named Marlene, will be his savior or his destruction in beautiful disguise....

Jules Verne was born in 1828 in France. His dream was to write a new kind of novel, which combined scientific fact with fiction. Verne eventually wrote 40 novels in his Voyages extraordinaires series. "What one man can imagine, another will someday be able to achieve." Is a quote from an article in the Encyclopedia Britannica that sums up Verne so well. In All Around the Moon three space travelers are conversing about science and mathematics. They decide to alter the course of their projectile, which leads to unanticipated results.

Felicity, Debby, Fin, and Ronnie stumble upon a mysterious creature during their game of hide and seek in Coral Cove.

A heartwarming story about Felicity, a cheeky, cheerful fish who loves adventure. She loves playing hide and seek in the coral, synchronised swimming and playing the guitar but her favourite thing in the world is eating sweets! She, her little sister, Debby, and her friend Ronnie the octopus have lots of fun together, exploring, making music and often getting into trouble.

A heartwarming story about Felicity, a cheeky, cheerful fish who loves adventure. She loves playing hide and seek in the coral, synchronised swimming and playing the guitar - but her favourite thing in the world is eating sweets! She, her little sister, Debby, and her friend Robbie the octopus have lots of fun together, exploring, making music and often getting into trouble.

Felicity is fed up with her band's acoustic instruments. It's time to go electric! But when she places an ad in the paper asking for electric eels to help her out, she has no idea just how popular it will be. Soon, Coral Cove is completely overrun with electric eels and everyone is getting zapped left, right and centre! It's up to the gang to save the day.

Felicity, Debby and Ronnie start a band with Felicity on the guitar, Debby on vocals and Ronnie on the drums! Just in time to enter the Mussel Beach talent contest.

Bored after being stuck indoors during a sea storm, Felicity and Debby start making prank calls to people in the neighbourhood.