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High school cheerleader Eva Blount deals with being raped, and high school football player Leo Steele, whose famous parents are not around much, hangs out with a bad crowd.

Text and illustrations depict the different types of houses lived in by children all over the world. On each page "This is my house" will appear in the appropriate native language.

The lifeguards at Sandy Beach decide that biggest is not always the best when judging the annual sand castle contest.

Contains a series of sky pictures, each of which features a constellation printed in glow-in-the-dark ink; provides information about each star pattern; and includes tips on how to find constellations in the night sky.

Brief text, bold illustrations, and die-cut pages introduce beginning readers to words in the "op, " "un, " and "an" families.

Presents back-to-back stories about sisters and brothers doing the same things for a younger sibling, each story arriving at the same conclusion that giving love is the best thing they both can do.

One side of this upside-down book celebrates all of the things grandmas do for their grandchildren. Turning the book over and around produces a similar celebration of grandpas.

As ever growing numbers of animals visit a watering hole, introducing the numbers from one to ten, the water dwindles.

Relates how the intrepid explorer, Miss Harriet Fanshawe, discovers a dragon and her egg in distant Patagonia and brings them back to England. The reader is led through the adventure by Miss Fanshawe's parrot who gives clues on how to manipulate the book.

Spot, his classmates, and their teacher, Miss Bear, spend a bright, sunny day exploring the woods together.