problem solving

When Tim and his parents visit his grandmother in the nursing home where she is recovering from a broken hip, everyone pretends to be happy until Tim helps them express their true feelings.

In his letters to his favorite author, ten-year-old Leigh reveals his problems in coping with his parents' divorce, being the new boy in school, and generally finding his own place in the world. Winner of the Newbery Medal 1984.

Four easy to read adventures about Amanda and Oliver Pig.

A young girl uses data-collecting and problem-solving skills to determine where her family should go for a vacation.

Principal Wagner confidently deals with a faculty washroom crisis, a psychic parrot, and a terrorizing gerbil, but when sixty-five erasers go missing, he enlists the help of the school's best problem solver and lost item locator, twelve-year-old Lyle Williams, also known as Mudshark.

"Every day, Yasmin borrows a book from Book Uncle, a retired teacher who has set up a free lending library on the street corner. But when the mayor tries to shut down the rickety book-stand, Yasmin has to take her nose out of her book and do something"--Dust jacket.

"For any task you might want to do, there's a right way, a wrong way, and a way so monumentally complex, excessive, and inadvisable that no one would ever try it. [This book] is a guide to the third kind of approach. It's full of highly impractical advice for everything from landing a plane to digging a hole"--Dust jacket flap.

Introduces what a problem is, how it can affect you, and how to deal with it.

Max Einstein and a group of international geniuses use their creativity and curiosity to help solve some of the world's toughest problems with science.