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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

Francesca is at the beginning of her second term in Year Eleven at an all boy's school that has just started accepting girls. She still misses her old friends, and, to make things worse, her mother has had a breakdown and can barely move from her bed.But Francesca had not counted on the fierce loyalty of her new friends, or falling in love, or finding that it's within her power to bring her family back together.A memorable and much-loved Australian classic told with humour,...

"'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...

The story of a remarkable girl who followed her dream and conquered the world.On 15 May 2010, after 210 days at sea and 24,285 nautical miles, 16-year-old Jessica Watson sailed her yacht, Ella's Pink Lady, triumphantly back into Sydney Harbour. She had become the youngest person to sail solo, unassisted and non-stop around the world.Told in Jessica's own words, this fully updated edition of True Spirit shares with the reader her childhood, her insp...