Janeczko, Paul B

Explores the contributions made by the ". . . United States Twenty-Third Headquarters Special Troops, also known as the Ghost Army, which included actors, camouflage experts, sound engineers, painters, and set designers, who used their skills to secretly and systematiclly replace fighting units, fool the Nazi army into believing what their eyes and ears told them, even though the sights and sounds of tanks and war machines and troops were entirely fabricated"--Adapted fromdust jacket.

An illustrated compilation of how-to poems for children.

Presents a guide to codemaking, codebreaking, and their role in history, describing different types of codes and ciphers, discussing codebreaking and concealment techniques, and including brief stories about exciting moments in the history of the art.

An illustrated collection of classic short poems by Emily Dickinson, Langston Hughes, Charlotte Zolotow, and others.

Collection of lively rhymes and tricky tongue twisters, poems for more than one voice, bilingual poems and poems that may just inspire kids to memorize them.

Introduces the military strategy of deception and examines how it has been used in war over the past 150 years.

A collection of poems about objects, from the Middle Ages when poets would have written about a sword to the present when their topics might be a birthday card.