Z was just the beginning! With A to Z Mysteries® Super Editions, chapter book readers keep on collecting clues and solving mysteries with Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose. Now with over 8 million copies in print, this classic kid-favorite series is back with a bright new look! Welcome to summer camp for detectives! The kids can’t wait to spend a week following clues and learning about the science of crime solving. Soon all the campers are working on a mystery. But while Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose are figuring out their part of the puzzle, they stumble onto something suspicious. Could a real crime be happening at detective camp? Look for hidden messages inside A to Z Mysteries® Super Editions!

Dink, Josh and Ruth Rose are off to a summer camp for detectives. Soon the counselors have all the campers working on a mystery. But while Dink, Josh and Ruth Rose are figuring out their part of the puzzle, they stumble on something suspicious. Includes grey-scale illustrations, book previews, author profile and author¿s note. Chapter Book: 10 chapters.

When it comes to solving mysteries, Annalise The Kid Detective is on the case! Using her uncanny talents, she can dig up things when everyone else has given up. With her unique team by her side, including her mother and other kid detectives, Annalise not only helps find missing items, but helps people discover the missing message behind their item. The Box Annalise’s teacher is excited about the box of books she brought to class. Each student will get a personalized book that could change their lives forever. But before she can distribute them, someone steals the box! While everyone else panics, AKD is on the case! What she finds may open magical doors the students never thought possible. The Book Everyone is enjoying their personalized book, including Annalise, who’s excited about where the book is guiding her. But when she misplaces her beloved book, she’s devastated. Along with a colorful cast of characters, she goes on a journey of discovery to find the book and inspiration at every turn. The Key When a married couple hosts a dinner party, they take a moment to show their unique box, which holds a magical stone. After the party, they discover the key to open the box is missing! They hire Annalise The Kid Detective. As she does her best to keep tempers at bay and accusations from flying, she helps the couple locate the missing key and discover that things aren’t always what they seem. The Stone A magic stone that allows you to talk to people who have gone to Heaven is making news across the country. When it comes up missing after being displayed at a children’s art festival, Annalise The Kid Detective is the only hope to get it back.

Rich with intrigue, court battles and murder the novel Amazon is about the perils facing the future of the Amazonian river basin. It explains the effects of logging, mining and conservation efforts on the local indigenous populations that have lived there forever. The main characters are Maggie and her adopted daughter Olon who attempt to save the forests and their inhabitants from these modern forces that lack long range sightedness of the irreversible damage they are doing.

Get ready for more round-the-world adventure with Samantha Spinner and her brother, Nipper, in the third book in this hilarious, puzzle-packed series filled with super-secret messages! Perfect for fans of Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library and classics like Holes. At last! Samantha Spinner tracked down her uncle! Now it's her big chance to learn everything. And now that he's safe and sound, it's time to get some answers. There are so many questions to ask--it's almost impossible to know where to start. Where did the RAIN come from? And what about the SUN? Who made the umbrella and all the incredible ways to travel? What did Uncle Paul mean when he told her to watch out for the... Wait a minute. Nipper's missing. Where did he go? What's that strange trail of yarn? Can't a girl take her eyes off her super-annoying little brother for ten minutes? (If you've been paying attention, then you know that the answer to that last question is "No! Of course not!") Praise for the Samantha Spinner series: "A winning mix of fast-paced action, fascinating facts, bathroom humor, and hidden puzzles . . . [that is] sure to please action-loving middle-grade readers." --Kirkus Reviews "Wild, wacky, and occasionally gross." --The Bulletin

This book makes the concepts of the biochemistry and physiology of energy and acid-base metabolism relevant to clinical medicine in a novel and effective way. It uses more than 50 clinical cases, with data such a those seen in the hospital setting, to introduce each concept, and to provide the basis for discussion of the needed biochemistry and physiology. Questions and commentary drawn from human and veterinary medicine provide a broad scope for understanding the concepts presented; details of metabolism are presented only when they are necessary to an understanding of clinical medicine.

Presents librarians and teachers with information on more than 1,200 fiction series for children in kindergarten through sixth grade, providing annotations, a listing of titles, important characters, genre, author biography, grade level, and major themes.

For five years, as Lincoln's Secret Service Chief, Lafayette C. Baker was one of the country's most feared men. This is an account of Baker's life and the effective, but usually undemocratic, methods he employed in his pursuit of the guilty. ().