Showing posts with label CriticalIssues. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CriticalIssues. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

New Non-Fiction

Here are new nonfiction series available:

  • Essential Science series - All About Gases; Keeping Warm; Light & Seeing; Solids & Liquids; Forces & Friction; Changing Sounds; Circuits & Conductors; Earth, Moon & Sun
  • Fundamental Physics series - Light and Color; Solar System and Beyond; Sound and Vibration; Forces and Motion; Electricity and Magnetism; Energy and Matter
  • Can you Feel the Force? Putting the Fizz back into Physics
  • UXL Space Exploration Reference Library - includes almanac, biographies and primary sources
  • Discovering Space series - Far Planets; Comets and Asteroids; Sun; Moon; Near Planets
  • Earth and Space series - Space Objects; Jupiter; Neptune, and Other Outer Planets; Mercury, Mars, and Other Inner Planets; Beyond the Solar System; Earth and Its Moon
  • Humans in Space series - Race into Space; Return to the Moon; Exploring Planet Mars; Flight into Orbit
  • Issues that Concern You series - Student Drug Testing; Drunk Driving; Obesity; Gun Violence; Medical Marijuana
  • Incarceration Issues series -Alternatives to Prison; History of Incarceration; Incarceration Around the World; Inequities of the Justice System; Political Prisoners; Prison Conditions; Prisoner Rehabilitation; Prisoners on Death Row; Social, Monetary and Moral Cost of Prisons; Women in Prisons; Youth in Prisons
  • Black History series - Slave Rebellions; From Ragtime to Hip-Hop: A Century of Black American Music; Separate but Equal: Desegrgation of America’s Schools
  • A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers will Rule the Future by Daniel H. Pink
  • Pay it Forward by Catherine Ryan Hyde
  • The Football Game I’ll Never Forget: 100 NFL Stars’ Stories
  • The Complete Book of Soccer and David Beckham’s Soccer Skills

Monday, January 26, 2009

Jordan Sonnenblick's Books

Drums, Girls and Dangerous Pie. Notes from the Midnight Driver. Zen and the Art of Faking It.

I am going to go out on a limb here and just say it: I love Jordan’s books — each and every one of them for basically the same reasons — the characters and the humor. I love Drums for Steven, Notes for crotchety old Sol, and Zen for completely unique San. Each story’s plot involves serious issues which could be overwhelming or depressing, but are neither since Jordan amuses while delivering the message.

Check out Jordan's website!