An important book for readers of all ages, Irvine Press brings quality biographies for kids through engagingly written volumes of true-to-life stories of important figures in history.Our message is simple: Dream Big, We'll Show You How.Ace's family revisited his grandparents' house five years after his grandfather's death. As the only grandchild from his father's side of the family, he finds visiting his grandmother's house boring. When they arrived, he met a spirit who has...

An important book for readers of all ages, Irvine Press brings quality biographies for kids through engagingly written volumes of true-to-life stories of important figures in history.Our message is simple: Dream Big, We'll Show You How.Ever since their family set up a small but successful manufacturing business, Nelly and Nina’s lives got much busier. They meet new people everyday and learn skills to one day take over what their parents hope will be their family’s safety ne...

An important book for readers of all ages, Irvine Press brings quality biographies for kids through engagingly written volumes of true-to-life stories of important figures in history.Our message is simple: Dream Big, We'll Show You How.Oliver is a 10-year-old smart kid who always tops his class. Even though he is smart and leads the class, he always pranks his classmates, which is why they hate him. Before their school year ends, everyone was excited when their school annou...

Confronted by an ancient evil, unlikely hero, Sheriff Clay Benson investigates the deaths of several people in his County. Overweight and overmatched Sheriff Benson tracks his quarry across the Country.

An important book for readers of all ages, Irvine Press brings quality biographies for kids through engagingly written volumes of true-to-life stories of important figures in history.Our message is simple: Dream Big, We'll Show You How.Four young teenagers are nearing the end of middle school, and they’re afraid they might not see each other again for a long time. High school looms on the horizon, and the day will come when the four will part ways. Determined to make the be...

An important book for readers of all ages, Irvine Press brings quality biographies for kids through engagingly written volumes of true-to-life stories of important figures in history.Our message is simple: Dream Big, We'll Show You How.When Morris, Jeff, Brady, and Kai discovered that some strangers planned to rid the endangered frogs in the marsh, they knew they had to stop them. Through their teamwork, the boys came up with a brilliant plan— they are going to scare these ...

An important book for readers of all ages, Irvine Press brings quality biographies for kids through engagingly written volumes of true-to-life stories of important figures in history.Our message is simple: Dream Big, We'll Show You How.Lauren was very eager to find out about the mysterious island from the tale that has been shared by their grandmother. She asked her younger sister, Kheila, to tag along to explore and find that mysterious island. The two girls sneaked out on...

An important book for readers of all ages, Irvine Press brings quality biographies for kids through engagingly written volumes of true-to-life stories of important figures in history.Our message is simple: Dream Big, We'll Show You How.When Joe, Helen, Dane, and Honey found out that their brainiac rivals are planning to create the world's biggest pasta rocket for the upcoming Science Fair, the four friends know they need to come up with something even better. The plan sound...

An important book for readers of all ages, Irvine Press brings quality biographies for kids through engagingly written volumes of true-to-life stories of important figures in history.Our message is simple: Dream Big, We'll Show You How.Zachary Andres, Darrel Tan, and Chastity Clark are childhood friends and neighbors. They tend to play outside the house, enjoying their childhood. They also tend to go to school together, not until one day in their hideout, Chastity told them...

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is a landmark slave narrative that fuses confession with documentary testimony to expose the distinctly gendered violence of slavery. Writing as Linda Brent, Jacobs recounts relentless sexual coercion, maternal strategies of resistance, and a seven-year concealment in a cramped garret that redefines fugitivity. Plainspoken yet strategically sentimental, the book borrows domestic fiction's appeals to address Northern women while insisting on hard facts ...

The Scale of Perfection, written in lucid Middle English prose, is a two-book guide from purgation and illumination to contemplative rest. Addressed first to an anchoress and then to advanced seekers, it distinguishes grace from illusion, teaches the soul's reforming into God's image, and weds affective warmth to sober discretion. In fourteenth-century English mysticism, Hilton's measured, pastoral voice mediates between Richard Rolle's ardor and the apophasis of The Cloud of Unknowing. Wa...

Set in a Swiss sanatorium above Davos, The Magic Mountain follows Hans Castorp, a complacent young engineer whose brief visit to his cousin expands into a seven-year initiation in illness, time, and ideology. Mann fuses Bildungsroman and novel of ideas: Settembrini and Naphta argue humanism versus absolutism, while Clavdia Chauchat and Peeperkorn complicate desire and authority, all under an ironic, modernist, time-dilating narration on the eve of war. Mann conceived the project after acco...