When her parents die suddenly leaving only a little money and one-way passages to Canada, a young Scottish girl decides she and her four-year-old brother will pursue family plans to relocate.
When her parents die suddenly leaving only a little money and one-way passages to Canada, a young Scottish girl decides she and her four-year-old brother will pursue family plans to relocate.
Ten-year-old Paul describes how he and his sisters learned about insects from the observations and writings of their father, the nineteenth-century French entomologist Jean-Henri Fabre.
While working in her father's computer store, eleven-year-old Sarah finds a terminal containing the ghost of a young girl who lived in the area in the early years of the century, and the connection pulls her through the computer into that other girl's time period.
Describes the many ways in which trees contribute to the city environment and suggests experiments and activities for exploring these contributions throughout the year.
Saved from being sacrificed alive to the angry volcano, eight-year-old Rana transcends the evil schemes of the tribesman who "saves" her and leads her people to a new life in the distant Land of the Long White Cloud.
