Petroleum is now so deeply entrenched in our economy, our politics, and our personal expectations that even modest efforts to phase it out are fought tooth and nail by the most powerful forces in the world: companies and governments that depend on oil revenues; the developing nations that see oil as the only means to industrial success; and a Western middle class that refuses to modify its energy-dependent lifestyle. But within thirty years, by even...

Almost no one agrees on who came to that stable in Bethlehem two thousand years ago, how many came, where they came from, whether they were sages or kings, and what they gave to that special child. The Gospels don't agree, and neither do any other sources written within a hundred years of the birth of Jesus. Unraveling that mystery not only sent Roberts on an adventure in the footsteps of the Magi that took him from Tehran to Bethlehem, but revealed...

Elmo, Big Bird, and their Sesame Street friends know that good hygiene is more important than ever now. This rhyming board book features fun ways for young girls and boys to stay healthy. From the right way to wash your hands--including the lyrics to the Sesame Street Washy Wash song from the popular video!--to leaving six feet between you and others, kids will learn that "The best way to take care of others is to take care of YOU!"--Amazon.com.

"Sakura's dad gets a new job in America, so she and her parents make the move from their home in Japan. When she arrives in the States, most of all she misses her grandmother and the cherry blossom trees, under which she and her grandmother used to play and picnic. She wonders how she'll ever feel at home in this new place, with its unfamiliar language and landscape. One day, she meets her neighbor, a boy named Luke, and begins to feel a little more...

Chicago fifth-grader Simon, an aspiring rapper who lacks self-confidence, uses his rhymes to help bring his community together.

When sixteen-year-old Kaz Barrett meets a mysterious, pink-haired girl named Zoey, his orderly life begins to spin out of control.

Imaginative and adventurous Katrina eludes her maniacal guardian to help Morty, a member of a vanishing breed of zorgles, with his quest to uncover the fate of the fabled zorgles of Zorgmazoo as well as of other creatures that seem to have disappeared from the Earth.

"Eleven-year-old Ellis Johnson has the summertime blues. He dreamed of spending the summer of 1976 hanging out with friends, listening to music, and playing his harmonica. Instead, he'll be sleeping on a lumpy pullout in Dad's sad little post-divorce bungalow and helping bring Dad's latest far-fetched, sure-to-fail idea to life: opening the world's first chocolate chip cookie store. They have six weeks to perfect their recipe, get a ramshackle A-frame...