Explains how to write an effective book report, covering such aspects as choosing the book, thinking while reading, writing a first draft, and preparing the final draft, and offers tips for oral presentations.
Advice for the young baby sitter including how to get jobs, how to deal with parents, safety precautions, handling the children, and dealing with emergencies.
As she starts her own terrarium business, Amy is introduced to such basic economic principles as costs and inflation, profit and loss, interest and loans, advertising and attracting new investors, and eventual liquidation at a profit.
An illustrated retelling of a First Nations' tale in which a haughty young woman, disdainful of bears, is captured by the Bear People, one of whom takes her as his wife and teaches her to respect the great animals through his kindness and tender heart.
Advice for the young baby sitter including how to get jobs, how to deal with parents, safety precautions, handling the children, and dealing with emergencies.
Describes the simple machines--lever, pulley, wedge, screw, inclined plane, and wheel and axle--and explains how they are utilized to make work easier.
