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What is music? How is it made? And what’s changed – and what hasn’t – about how we listen to it?
Here’s all the best stuff about the science and history behind our connection to music.
By: Alan Cross,
Emme Cross,
Nicole Mortillaro
$24.95
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The Sea Around Us remains as fresh today as when it first appeared over six decades ago. Carson's genius for evoking the power and primacy of the world's bodies of water, combining the cosmic and the intimate, remains almost unmatched: the newly formed Earth cooling beneath an endlessly overcast
sky; the centuries of nonstop rain that created the oceans; giant squids battling sperm whales hundreds of fathoms below the surface; the power of the tides moving 100 billion tons of water daily in one bay alone; the seismic waves known as tsunamis that periodically remind us of the oceans' overwhelmingly destructive power.
By: Rachel Carson
$21.95
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From the Publisher:
Who doesn’t look forward to summer camp? Two weeks of sun and fun were just what Presley’s parents thought she needed. Too bad she didn’t feel the same way. . .
Growing up in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, was all fourteen-year-old Presley Walton knew. In fact, the teen had never ventured far beyond the city limits. Her world revolved around chilling in her bedroom, using her cell phone, and being on social media. Presley was getting ready to enjoy a typical summer, but her parents had other plans.
By: Lane Walker
$16.50
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Having shaken the curse of Urumbu, Jack and Sheltie return to the old country. Injured in a traffic accident, Jack is laid up in a Genoa hospital. Sheltie goes on ahead to Rotterdam where he promptly gets lost.
This book gives a fascinating look at the “psychology” of a dog trying to avoid capture as he hunts doggedly for his master. It also tells the story of the extensive, persistent search Jack and his nephews make for Sheltie.
Unaccustomed to civilization, Sheltie faces danger at every turn. Several scrapes with death make this a real nail-biter!
By: Piet Prins
$11.95
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Coronado had heard rumors of seven cities of gold somewhere north of Mexico, so he sent an exploring party to find them. The expedition did not go well. Soon Coronado himself stormed north into the great American Southwest, searching for the fabled cities that he was certain existed. He could not know the significance of what he discovered instead.
By: A Royal Fireworks Press Publication
$13.50
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Hank and Dick are two teenagers who accidentally get mixed up with a narcotics ring. When they intercept a coded message destined for a distributor doubling as a grocer, they become caught in a web of crime and intrigue.
By: Coen Hartman
$11.95
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The Secret Garden reveals that love, tenderness, and the beauty of nature have the power to heal.
By: Frances Hodgson Burnett
$12.50
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In this beloved story, readers travel with Mary Lennox, a spoiled and sullen orphan, from colonial India to Misselthwaite Manor, a forbidding estate on the Yorkshire moors. There, in the unlikeliest of places, Mary discovers and helps restore an abandoned garden and, in the process, blossoms herself into a creature of loving-kindness. Mary’s transformation begins when she meets a no-nonsense housekeeper, a brusque gardener, and a sprightly robin that leads her to the hidden garden. With the help of Dickon, a boy with an almost supernatural affinity for animals and plants, and Colin, her frail cousin, Mary works in secret to bring new life to the old garden. The three friends find their efforts rewarded not only with all the pleasure that blooming flowers bring, but also the blessings of good health and high spirits.
By: Burnett, Frances Hodgson
$13.50
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In 468 B.C.E in Athens, the young Sophocles entered the theater competition at the City Dionysia against the established favorite, Aeschylus. The kidnapping of the lead actor of Sophocles' company inspires his two young daughters to defy the normal conventions that prescribed the behavior of girls and to take a leading part in attempting to save their father and to restore fair play to the competition.
By: Craig Sodaro
$20.50
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By: Lynne Reid Banks
$12.50
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Book Two of The Wilderking Trilogy
No one has ever come home from the Feechiefen Swamp. What makes Aidan think he can?
By: Jonathan Rogers
$16.50
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Book Two of The Wilderking Trilogy
No one has ever come home from the Feechiefen Swamp. What makes Aidan think he can?
By: Jonathan Rogers
$20.50
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Throughout Secrets of the Woods William Long uses stories of his personal observations to teach children valuable lessons about nature.
By: William J. Long
$11.95 – $27.95
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From the Publisher:
A delightful adveture full of humor and heart set in Elizabethan England!
Widge is an orphan with a rare talent for shorthand. His fearsome master has just one demand: steal Shakespeare's play "Hamlet"--or else. Widge has no choice but to follow orders, so he works his way into the heart of the Globe Theatre, where Shakespeare's players perform. As full of twists and turns as a London alleyway, this entertaining novel is rich in period details, colorful characters, villainy, and drama.
By: Gary Blackwood
$11.99
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All four of Noel Streatfeild's delightful "Shoe" books, all in one convenient bundle.
By: Noel Streatfeild
$45.45
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Left alone to guard the family's wilderness home in eighteenth-century Maine, a boy is hard-pressed to survive until the Beaver clan teaches him their skills in this Newbery Honor book.
By: Elizabeth George Speare
$12.50