Author: Danna Smith
Publisher: Arbordale Publishing
ISBN: 1607186241
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
Rhyming text and illustrations outline the process by which latex is extracted from trees to make balloons.
Balloon Trees
Author: Danna Smith
Publisher: Arbordale Publishing
ISBN: 1607186241
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
Rhyming text and illustrations outline the process by which latex is extracted from trees to make balloons.
Publisher: Arbordale Publishing
ISBN: 1607186241
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
Rhyming text and illustrations outline the process by which latex is extracted from trees to make balloons.
The Balloon Tree
Author: Phoebe Gilman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1626365911
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
“Don’t worry,” said Princess Leora’s father just before he left for the tournament. “If anything goes wrong, release a bunch of balloons from the castle tower. Wherever I am, I will see them and come home right away.” Now, something is wrong—very wrong. Princess Leora’s grumpy uncle, the Archduke, wants to be king, and the very first thing he does is pop every balloon in the kingdom. Princess Leora is afraid, but she doesn't give up. If she can find just one whole balloon, the kingdom will be saved!
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1626365911
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
“Don’t worry,” said Princess Leora’s father just before he left for the tournament. “If anything goes wrong, release a bunch of balloons from the castle tower. Wherever I am, I will see them and come home right away.” Now, something is wrong—very wrong. Princess Leora’s grumpy uncle, the Archduke, wants to be king, and the very first thing he does is pop every balloon in the kingdom. Princess Leora is afraid, but she doesn't give up. If she can find just one whole balloon, the kingdom will be saved!
The Wild Trees
Author: Richard Preston
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN: 0812975596
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Hidden away in foggy, uncharted rain forest valleys in Northern California are the largest and tallest organisms the world has ever sustained–the coast redwood trees, Sequoia sempervirens. Ninety-six percent of the ancient redwood forests have been destroyed by logging, but the untouched fragments that remain are among the great wonders of nature. The biggest redwoods have trunks up to thirty feet wide and can rise more than thirty-five stories above the ground, forming cathedral-like structures in the air. Until recently, redwoods were thought to be virtually impossible to ascend, and the canopy at the tops of these majestic trees was undiscovered. In The Wild Trees, Richard Preston unfolds the spellbinding story of Steve Sillett, Marie Antoine, and the tiny group of daring botanists and amateur naturalists that found a lost world above California, a world that is dangerous, hauntingly beautiful, and unexplored. The canopy voyagers are young—just college students when they start their quest—and they share a passion for these trees, persevering in spite of sometimes crushing personal obstacles and failings. They take big risks, they ignore common wisdom (such as the notion that there’s nothing left to discover in North America), and they even make love in hammocks stretched between branches three hundred feet in the air. The deep redwood canopy is a vertical Eden filled with mosses, lichens, spotted salamanders, hanging gardens of ferns, and thickets of huckleberry bushes, all growing out of massive trunk systems that have fused and formed flying buttresses, sometimes carved into blackened chambers, hollowed out by fire, called “fire caves.” Thick layers of soil sitting on limbs harbor animal and plant life that is unknown to science. Humans move through the deep canopy suspended on ropes, far out of sight of the ground, knowing that the price of a small mistake can be a plunge to one’s death. Preston’s account of this amazing world, by turns terrifying, moving, and fascinating, is an adventure story told in novelistic detail by a master of nonfiction narrative. The author shares his protagonists’ passion for tall trees, and he mastered the techniques of tall-tree climbing to tell the story in The Wild Trees—the story of the fate of the world’s most splendid forests and of the imperiled biosphere itself.
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN: 0812975596
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Hidden away in foggy, uncharted rain forest valleys in Northern California are the largest and tallest organisms the world has ever sustained–the coast redwood trees, Sequoia sempervirens. Ninety-six percent of the ancient redwood forests have been destroyed by logging, but the untouched fragments that remain are among the great wonders of nature. The biggest redwoods have trunks up to thirty feet wide and can rise more than thirty-five stories above the ground, forming cathedral-like structures in the air. Until recently, redwoods were thought to be virtually impossible to ascend, and the canopy at the tops of these majestic trees was undiscovered. In The Wild Trees, Richard Preston unfolds the spellbinding story of Steve Sillett, Marie Antoine, and the tiny group of daring botanists and amateur naturalists that found a lost world above California, a world that is dangerous, hauntingly beautiful, and unexplored. The canopy voyagers are young—just college students when they start their quest—and they share a passion for these trees, persevering in spite of sometimes crushing personal obstacles and failings. They take big risks, they ignore common wisdom (such as the notion that there’s nothing left to discover in North America), and they even make love in hammocks stretched between branches three hundred feet in the air. The deep redwood canopy is a vertical Eden filled with mosses, lichens, spotted salamanders, hanging gardens of ferns, and thickets of huckleberry bushes, all growing out of massive trunk systems that have fused and formed flying buttresses, sometimes carved into blackened chambers, hollowed out by fire, called “fire caves.” Thick layers of soil sitting on limbs harbor animal and plant life that is unknown to science. Humans move through the deep canopy suspended on ropes, far out of sight of the ground, knowing that the price of a small mistake can be a plunge to one’s death. Preston’s account of this amazing world, by turns terrifying, moving, and fascinating, is an adventure story told in novelistic detail by a master of nonfiction narrative. The author shares his protagonists’ passion for tall trees, and he mastered the techniques of tall-tree climbing to tell the story in The Wild Trees—the story of the fate of the world’s most splendid forests and of the imperiled biosphere itself.
Preincarnation
Author: Thomas Kodat
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1480934712
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Preincarnation By Thomas Kodat Technology in the 21st century has surpassed the unimaginable in extraordinary proportions. Although in its early stages, facial recognition software has proven to be a valuable tool during criminal investigations. However, advancements in technology will always have consequences. In Thomas Kodat’s suspenseful thriller, Preincarnation, readers will see just what those consequences are through many unexpected twists and turns.
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1480934712
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Preincarnation By Thomas Kodat Technology in the 21st century has surpassed the unimaginable in extraordinary proportions. Although in its early stages, facial recognition software has proven to be a valuable tool during criminal investigations. However, advancements in technology will always have consequences. In Thomas Kodat’s suspenseful thriller, Preincarnation, readers will see just what those consequences are through many unexpected twists and turns.
Kite Balloon Training Manual
Author: Great Britain. Royal Naval Air Service
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Balloons
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Balloons
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Celebrate Life!
Author: Sharon Murphy
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 0788108654
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
A compilation of ideas and comments from parents, school personnel, community members, and graduates of high school who have planned and implemented All Night Alcohol/Drug-Free Prom and Graduation Celebrations. Presents samples of projects undertaken by high school communities in their efforts to provide safe, fun-filled, party environments that appeal to students. Illustrated.
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 0788108654
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
A compilation of ideas and comments from parents, school personnel, community members, and graduates of high school who have planned and implemented All Night Alcohol/Drug-Free Prom and Graduation Celebrations. Presents samples of projects undertaken by high school communities in their efforts to provide safe, fun-filled, party environments that appeal to students. Illustrated.
Boys' Life
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Boys' Life is the official youth magazine for the Boy Scouts of America. Published since 1911, it contains a proven mix of news, nature, sports, history, fiction, science, comics, and Scouting.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Boys' Life is the official youth magazine for the Boy Scouts of America. Published since 1911, it contains a proven mix of news, nature, sports, history, fiction, science, comics, and Scouting.
Graph Drawing
Author: Michael Kaufmann
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3540709037
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Graph Drawing, GD 2006, held in Karlsruhe, Germany in September 2006. The 33 revised full papers and 5 revised short papers presented together with 2 invited talks, 1 system demo, 2 poster papers and a report on the graph drawing contest were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and improvement from 91 submissions. All current aspects in graph drawing are addressed ranging from foundational and methodological issues to applications for various classes of graphs in a variety of fie.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3540709037
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Graph Drawing, GD 2006, held in Karlsruhe, Germany in September 2006. The 33 revised full papers and 5 revised short papers presented together with 2 invited talks, 1 system demo, 2 poster papers and a report on the graph drawing contest were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and improvement from 91 submissions. All current aspects in graph drawing are addressed ranging from foundational and methodological issues to applications for various classes of graphs in a variety of fie.
Outpost
Author: Scott Mackay
Publisher: Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.
ISBN: 1625673493
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Award-winning author Scott Mackay’s "fast-paced action adventure” depicts the story of a struggle for liberty against unknown captors—and a fight for survival in an unknown world... (The Washington Post). Young Felicitas has woken in a prison cell—unable to remember how she got there. She doesn’t know where the prison is—except that it is most definitely not on Earth. And she has no idea why all the other prisoners walk around in a daze. In dreams, she is forced to relive crimes she cannot remember committing. Felicitas soon notices that the mechanized sentries surveilling the inmates are breaking down. The automated system is collapsing, putting everybody at risk. Along with some others who have awakened out of their daze, Felicitas sees a chance to escape. Yet the harsh penal world she and her fellow fugitives escape to is as fraught with danger as the now perilously malfunctioning prison. And it turns out there is much more at stake than just a prison break. As those stakes become clear, Felicitas must choose between freedom, imprisonment, the human race, and history itself. Driven by “an intriguing puzzle scenario and tense prison action,” this thrilling novel of sci-fi suspense promises to keep readers guessing and gasping until the final truth is revealed (Kirkus).
Publisher: Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.
ISBN: 1625673493
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Award-winning author Scott Mackay’s "fast-paced action adventure” depicts the story of a struggle for liberty against unknown captors—and a fight for survival in an unknown world... (The Washington Post). Young Felicitas has woken in a prison cell—unable to remember how she got there. She doesn’t know where the prison is—except that it is most definitely not on Earth. And she has no idea why all the other prisoners walk around in a daze. In dreams, she is forced to relive crimes she cannot remember committing. Felicitas soon notices that the mechanized sentries surveilling the inmates are breaking down. The automated system is collapsing, putting everybody at risk. Along with some others who have awakened out of their daze, Felicitas sees a chance to escape. Yet the harsh penal world she and her fellow fugitives escape to is as fraught with danger as the now perilously malfunctioning prison. And it turns out there is much more at stake than just a prison break. As those stakes become clear, Felicitas must choose between freedom, imprisonment, the human race, and history itself. Driven by “an intriguing puzzle scenario and tense prison action,” this thrilling novel of sci-fi suspense promises to keep readers guessing and gasping until the final truth is revealed (Kirkus).
The Magical Land of Birthdays
Author: Amirah Kassem
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1683355768
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
The first in a delicious new middle-grade series by Flour Shop founder Amirah Kassem, an authority on the sweeter side of life! After receiving a magical cookbook and baking her special birthday cake, 10-year-old—wait, make that almost 11-year-old—Amirah is transported to the Magical Land of Birthdays, where she meets three of her birthday buddies from different corners of the world—kids who share her exact birthday and are also about to turn 11. In the Magical Land of Birthdays, a place filled with wonder and whimsy (and plenty of cake!), you can celebrate your birthday every moment of every day. As they explore the land, Amirah and her new friends learn about each other and the special bond they share, and discover exciting and wonderful birthday traditions from around the world.
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1683355768
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
The first in a delicious new middle-grade series by Flour Shop founder Amirah Kassem, an authority on the sweeter side of life! After receiving a magical cookbook and baking her special birthday cake, 10-year-old—wait, make that almost 11-year-old—Amirah is transported to the Magical Land of Birthdays, where she meets three of her birthday buddies from different corners of the world—kids who share her exact birthday and are also about to turn 11. In the Magical Land of Birthdays, a place filled with wonder and whimsy (and plenty of cake!), you can celebrate your birthday every moment of every day. As they explore the land, Amirah and her new friends learn about each other and the special bond they share, and discover exciting and wonderful birthday traditions from around the world.