an encyclopedia of trends, conditions & treatments
Bruggman, Amber
2017
The second in a three volume set that looks at conditions, treatments, trends, and issues facing families and members of the community. This volume covers Education through Musictherapy.
Wanting to raise more money than his allowance provides in order to buy a popular new gadget, loveable slacker Charlie Joe takes a disastrous dog-walking job before organizing a fake bar mitzvah.
Explains the back story of Superman's cousin, Kara Zor-El-- Supergirl--from her life as a teenager on Krypton and her arrival on Earth after years in suspended animation to her efforts to adjust to human society and her role as a superhero.
In Communist China in 1966, eight-year-old Leap Forward learns about freedom while flying kites with his best friend, by trying to get a caged wild bird to sing, and through the music he is learning to play on a bamboo flute.
When twelve-year-old Lidie leaves Brazil to join her father and brother on a horse ranch in New York, she has a hard time adjusting to her changed circumstances, as does a new horse that has come to the ranch.
Comfort Snowberger is well acquainted with death since her family runs the funeral parlor in their small southern town, but even so the ten-year-old is unprepared for the series of heart-wrenching events that begins on the first day of Easter vacation with the sudden death of her beloved great-uncle Edisto.