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Erinn Banting
The Great Storytellers series profiles and celebrates significant children’s authors. Each book explores the life of a well-known children’s writer and provides an overview of his or her most popular…
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Paul Curtis
Learn and laugh about the mistakes of others when mastering the skill of successful boat manouevering.
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Since 1841, professional photographers have been the visual historians of Australia. They have captured forever everything from our news, fashions and architectural to our lives from babyhood to the grave…
Critical and intensive care is concerned with the life support and monitoring provided to individuals with life-threatening conditions. Such care is particularly significant in patients with airway or respiratory compromise…
Dr Bartlett is an unlikely candidate for romance. In spite of a successful career in psychiatry, he feels a failure. He has so little gravitas that he is often mistaken…
As one of the few smaller cruise ships with a worldwide itinerary, Pacific Princess has become a firm favourite with ship lovers in America, Europe, Africa, and Australasia.
This monograph focuses solely on the Stesichoros’s Geryoneis. The main feature to the book is its full-length commentary. As well as providing a detailed analysis on the poet’s language and…
As one of the few smaller cruise ships with a worldwide itinerary, Pacific Princess has become a firm favorite with ship lovers in America, Europe, Africa, and Australasia. In homage…
This book has 202 pages including 11 pages of inside colour containing humurous cartoons by well known yachting cartoonist John Quirk. Story covers yachting incidThose suffering the merest hint of…
The complete story of the Pacific Princess cruise ship. This well-illustrated book takes us on a cruise from the days she was built to the destination she visits today. A…
Guidebook to 32 walking routes on the beautiful Isle of Wight, from 4 to 18 miles long. The routes are suitable for all abilities and are accessible all year round…
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This is the extraordinary story of the people with the vision to build not one, but a whole fleet of the world’s biggest cruise ships, each bigger than the last.
Insights of a 1960s Cunard entertainments officer into the history of life aboard the Cunard liners
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A collection of stories from many of the best-known passenger ships and liners, that vividly showcase the romance and tragedy of life at sea
Disruptive Urbanism examines how different forms and modes of the so called "sharing economy" are manifesting in cities and regions throughout the world, and how policy makers are responding to…
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Paul A Curtis
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to…
This is a new release of the original 1941 edition.
Paul A. Curtis
The world of sporting firearms is a constantly changing one, but it’s always important to remember the past of the sport. Sporting Firearms of Today in Use is a vintage…
Christopher Paul Curtis
For use in schools and libraries only. Flint Future Detective Club members Steven Carter, his friend Russell, and Russell’s huge dog Zoopy solve the mystery of a quadrillion-dollar bill with…
Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be…
Bud (like a plant, not short for ‘Buddy’, as he determinedly tells everyone) is a motherless boy on the run. The only clue his late mother left him was a…
Deeply involved in his cold and manipulative mother’s shady business dealings in Flint, Michigan, fourteen-year-old Luther keeps a sense of humor while running the Happy Neighbor Group Home For Men…
Christopher,Paul Curtis
Its 1860, and 11-year-old Elijah is a first-generation freeborn child. His Canadian town of Buxton serves as a haven for runaway slaves. When the towns corrupt preacher steals money from…
For use in schools and libraries only. The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go…
Steven and his best friend Russell from Mr. Chickee’s Funny Money are back. When Russell’s dog, Rodney Rodent, jumps into a mural to chase a demonic-looking gnome and disappears, the…
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A Newbery Honor-winning author ( The Watsons Go to Birmingham ) delivers a heart-wrenching, suspenseful novel of one unforgettable family caught up in the turbulent days of the Great Depression.
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Master storyteller Christopher Paul Curtis’s Newbery Honor novel, featuring his trademark humor and unique narrative voice, is now part of the Scholastic Gold line!
The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the…
Bestselling Newbery Medalist Christopher Paul Curtis delivers a powerful companion to his multiple award-winning ELIJAH OF BUXTON.
Ten-year-old Kenny and his family, the Watsons of Flint, Michigan, are heading for Birmingham, Alabama, and one of the darkest moments in American history. Honors include 1996 Newbery Honor Book…
Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also…
A hilarious, touching, and tragic novel about civil rights and the impact of violence on one African American family. Narrated by Kenny, 9, the story tells about his middle-class black…
Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, in 1995.
