Build a profitable side hustle and achieve financial breathing room without sacrificing your life to toxic burnout. If you are a busy professional feeling the squeeze of mounting bills and stagnant wages, this calm, practical approach offers a lifeline. You can finally create a low-profile revenue stream that fits seamlessly around your demanding nine-to-five schedule.Leave behind the anxiety of flashy influencer myths and embrace a stress-free, realistic path to wealth building. P...

"This imaginative collection of 13 plot summaries is pure poetry, and a whole lot of fun . . . A wonderful read" from the author of Poem-mobiles ( The Miss Rumphius Effect).Thirteen witty and wacky poems pose riddles that challenge readers to "Name That Book." With a glass slipper here and a spiderweb there, Lynn Munsinger's adorable illustrations lead young readers to the solutions. From Goodnight Moon to Madeline, children and ...

Children's Poets Laureate J. Patrick Lewis and Kenn Nesbitt team up to offer a smart, stealthy tour of the creatures of shadowy myth and fearsome legend—the enticing, the humorous, and the strange. Bigfoot, the Mongolian Death Worm, and the Loch Ness Monster number among the many creatures lurking within these pages. Readers may have to look twice—the poems in this book are disguised as street signs, newspaper headlines, graffiti, milk cartons, and more!

In this tasty collection, J. Patrick Lewis displays the breadth and depth of his talent, giving readers of any and every sensibility something to make them laugh out loud. He stirs humor into an astonishing array of subjects—from animals to school to dragons to food. And he delivers them in a remarkable variety of forms, including riddles, limericks, nonsense rhymes, parodies, anagrams, story poems, haiku, and more. Baked in Lewis's brilliant imagination and sprinkled with Matthew Cordell'...

An old man, known as the Wren, plays his hurdy-gurdy, and with the help of his student, the Sparrow, brings hope and inspiration to the people of a small Polish town. A beautifully illustrated Holocaust fable by US Children's Poet Laureate J. Patrick Lewis.

The powerful poems in this poignant collection weave together multiple voices to tell the story of the March on Washington, DC, in 1963.From the woman singing through a terrifying bus ride to DC, to the teenager who came partly because his father told him, "Don't you dare go to that march," to the young child riding above the crowd on her father's shoulders, each voice brings a unique perspective to this tale. As the characters tell their personal stories of this h...

The Molecular and Clinical Pathology of Neurodegenerative Disease brings together in one volume our current understanding of the molecular basis of neurodegeneration in humans, targeted at neuroscientists and graduate students in neuroscience, and the biomedical and biological sciences. Bringing together up-to-date molecular biology data with clinical evidence, this book sheds a light on common molecular mechanisms that underlie many different neurodegenerative diseases and addresses the m...

This is the story of a romance between Michael Farrell, a medical research scientist, and Gwyneth McBride, an earth mother, who meet by chance at a writers conference at Katoomba in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney. Their mutual interest in writing soon leads them into an unlikely romance. Michael finds himself progressively drawn into the rural life of Gwyneth and all her passionate love of nature and spiritualism. Though their obvious social differences give rise to a powerful attractio...

Get ready to light up the world with Lewis Latimer in this exciting middle grade nonfiction biography. Perfect for fans of the Who Was and Little Leaders series, the books in the VIP series tell the true—and amazing—stories of some of history's greatest trailblazers. Meet the VERY IMPORTANT PEOPLE who changed the world!Lewis Latimer was one of the greatest inventors of his time. He was also an engineer who transformed the lightbulb at Thomas Edison’s company. And he was a gifted ar...

What do you know about the sinking of the Titanic?What if you lived in a different time and place? What would you wear? What would you eat? How would your daily life be different?Scholastic's If You Lived... series answers all of kids' most important questions about events in American history. With a question and answer format, kid-friendly artwork, and engaging information, this series is the perfect partner for the classroom and for history-lovin...

Get ready to sing for justice with Mahalia Jackson in this excitingmiddle grade nonfiction biography. Perfect for fans of the Who Was andLittle Leaders series, the books in the VIP series tell the true—andamazing—stories of some of history's greatest trailblazers. Meet the VERYIMPORTANT PEOPLE who changed the world!Mahalia Jackson was known as the queen of gospel music. A closefriend of D...

Discover the rise of Ketanji Brown Jackson, from a young girl growing up in Florida to the first Black woman to be confirmed to the United States Supreme Court.Ketanji Brown Jackson knew from the very beginning that “You can do anything. You can be anything.” Driven by those powerful words and her parents' love, Ketanji refused to let naysayers stop her from rising to the top, whether it was participating in her high school debate team, applying to her dream colleg...