Verstraete, Larry

Discusses important innovations in everyday technologies and looks at the inventors, scientists, and engineers who made them.

Shares twenty true stories of people who were forced to make critical decisions in circumstances that may have resulted in their own deaths or the death of others.

An illustrated alphabet book that introduces children to the history, culture, landscapes, famous people, and provincial symbols of Manitoba.

Presents twenty-two stories that relate the real, life-threatening situations faced by children, men, and women, describing their decisions in the face of the Holocaust, the 2004 tsunami in Asia, Chernobyl, Hurricane Katrina, 9/11, Tiananmen Square, and more.

"Based on a true story, fourteen-year-old Werner Franz works as a cabin boy aboard the German zeppelin, the Hindenburg, and resourcefully survives its fatal crash"--Provided by publisher.

A rhyming alphabet that names people, places, and discoveries in the history of science, and provides background information on each one.