When Emily, Makayla, Jose, and Matt go bicycling, they witness what can happen from not wearing a helmet.

Matt and his friends head for the park and find themselves helping to rescue a boy who cannot swim.

When Emily goes to Makayla's house after school, she learns about being safe on the way there and protecting herself from strangers.

Matt and Jose help welcome a new young boy from India by introducing him to the activities of the local community center.

Read the story to hear the sounds "w" can make.

Emily and Makayla help prevent disaster when they notice smoke coming from a neighbor's yard.

The Toddler’s Handbook introduces 17 basic concepts. Included are numbers, colors, shapes, sizes, ABCs, animals, opposites, sounds, actions, sports, food, tableware, clothes, engines, emotions, body, and time. This book develops early language skills using 174 words that every kid should know. Vibrant colors and images are designed to attract the attention of babies and toddlers. This book will help children learn a variety of important concepts before preschool.

A beautifully designed book full of creative ideas and fun activities to get your children outdoors, with a foreword by Chris Packham.Spending time outdoors and interacting with the elements gives our senses a host of stimuli that cannot be recreated indoors. Whether you're splashing in muddy puddles, making shelters, foraging blackberries, playing hide and seek or watching birds, experiencing the natural world reduces stress, makes us feel alive and lays critical ...

The A circuit's notorious new gossip blog is all anyone can talk about. Rumors about Kate are threatening her horse show career and her relationship with Fitz. Zara is mad when her riding ability is questioned. Tommi is riding the high of selling the horse she trained all summer. But the blog is speculating about her next training prospect . . . and a new guy she meets at the first show of the fall season. He's a star athlete, but is he boyfriend material?As the exclusive series of ...

On July 16, 1989, Lois Duncan’s daughter was chased down and shot to death in Albuquerque, New Mexico. After the police abandoned all leads, Duncan refused to give up her search for the truth.In this tragic memoir and investigation, Lois Duncan searches for clues to the murder of her youngest child, eighteen-year-old Kaitlyn Arquette. Duncan begins to suspect that the official police investigation of Kaitlyn’s murder is inadequate when detectives ignore her daughte...

"'La frontera'...I heard it for the first time back in the late 1940s when Papa and Mama told me and Roberto, my older brother, that someday we would take a long trip north, cross la frontera, enter California, and leave our poverty behind." So begins this honest and powerful account of a family's journey to the fields of California -- to a life of constant moving, from strawberry fields to cotton fields, from tent cities to one-room shacks, from picking grapes to topping carrots and thinn...

Hedley Hopkins has a few problems: he is the new kid at school, straight off the boat from England in the 1950s. The only friends he has made are the kids at the Loony Bin especially bald headed, long armed Victor. But if he could just fulfil a dare and dig out the hideous skull hidden in a grave in the sand dunes, he could impress the bullies at school and become their friend. But Hedley is not so sure. Weird things are happening to his body. Is he being punished for his terrible...