When Pinky's dad must go away to New Mexico on a business trip, the whole family tags along and makes it a vacation. As a child, Mr. Frink enjoyed exploring caves and caverns, and now he wants to share a spelunking experience with his daughter, Pinky. Pinky learns about cave formations, including stalactites and stalagmites, and about the bats who frequently live in caves. Factual information about Carlsbad Caverns appears throughout the adorable rhyming storyline. The book follows Pinky and her dad as their father-daughter outing progresses throughout their exploration of the caves at the national park.
When Pinky's dad must go away to New Mexico on a business trip, the whole family tags along and makes it a vacation. As a child, Mr. Frink enjoyed exploring caves and caverns, and now he wants to share a spelunking experience with his daughter, Pinky. Pinky learns about cave formations, including stalactites and stalagmites, and about the bats who frequently live in caves. Factual information about Carlsbad Caverns appears throughout the adorable rhyming storyline. The book follows Pinky and her dad as their father-daughter outing progresses throughout their exploration of the caves at the national park.
Pinky is excited because it's time for the Frink's family vacation and they're off to go camping at the Grand Canyon. As a first-time camper, Pinky quickly learns that you wake early as the many birds act as Mother Nature's natural wildlife alarm clocks. With her baby brother, Peter and her parents, Pinky learns how this great chasm developed and about the animals that inhabit the area. She also finds out that parental restrictions and park rules help to ensure her safety. Follow Pinky and her family as they hike trails, go on nature walks and even roast some marshmallows by the campfire.
Pinky loves horses, so her father and mother plan a family trip to Assateague, Chincoteague and Currituck where wild horses still roam freely. The family is astounded by the beauty of the islands and by the family groups of horses flourishing there. Pinky learns how to safely observe these wonderful creatures safely and develops a special bound with a particular young colt that frequents their campsite during their stay. The book contains factual information about the wild horses that inhabit the barrier islands off the US Atlantic coast.
Mr. Mellop's golf ball rolls into a crevice and the Mellop family goes spelunking to get it back. They find many interesting things in the cave besides the golf ball.
A fast-paced and action-packed ride through upstate New York for fans of CHRIS RYAN and STEPHEN LEATHER. When Nicolas ‘Po’ Villere runs into Elspeth Fuchs, an old flame, he’s surprised to find who’s by her side. It’s her son, Jacob, and he’s a dead ringer for when Po was a child. His age lines up with when Po last saw Elspeth, before she left him for Caleb Moorcock and a life in a secluded community. Elspeth and Jacob are now running for their lives from the abusive Caleb. Po and his partner, Private Investigator Tess Grey, offer shelter. But before Po can dive into the boy’s parentage, Caleb snatches the absconded pair and drags them back to their fortified commune. Has Po dodged a bullet? Maybe it’s best for them all if he never learns whether he’s Jacob’s father. Who’s he kidding? Po resolves to rescue Elspeth and discover the truth about Jacob no matter what . . .
The craft of pinstriping dates back centuries, when carriages of royalty were painted with fine lines of exquisite detail and design. Twelve-year-old Derek Moody lives at The Greasy Spoon, a struggling roadside mart and garage. Over three days he learns that the man he calls "Dad" is not his father, and he meets Kelly Williams, the cute niece of a big customer. When the two are later caught behaving as curious adolescents, the Moodys lose the Williams business and Derek loses his new best friend. Anxious to make amends, Derek begins pinstriping customers' cars with seasoned expertise, skill he attributes to Kelly and their last encounter. He leaves home at 18, well on his way to fortune and fame. At a hot rod show he meets Cecil Caldwell, a Matchbox car vendor, and his personal life appears equally successful. Until a freak injury threatens his career at age 26. For anyone who ever grinned at a nicely-painted car, and everybody who never completely forget their first love, and anyone who ever knew the joy of a dog or the bliss of a dysfunctional family, Pinstripes is about trust and duplicity, faith and despair, cherry Chapstick and cherry-flavored pancake syrup. And the fine lines that separate all of them. After writing copy for the San Francisco offices of three international advertising agencies, John Frazier began freelancing in 1987. He has written for clients from almost all industries, including high technology, financial, automotive, publishing, food and consumer goods, and for virtually every medium. Clients have included Apple, IBM, AT&T, Hewlett-Packard, Blue Cross and Blue Shield, and Levi Strauss.After writing copy for the San Francisco offices of three international advertising agencies, John Frazier began freelancing in 1987. He has written for clients from almost all industries, including high technology, financial, automotive, publishing, food and consumer goods, and for virtually every medium. Clients have included Apple, IBM, AT&T, Hewlett-Packard, Blue Cross and Blue Shield, and Levi Strauss. For an even longer period of time, John has been fascinated by cars shiny and fast. He had his first Hot Wheels track as a young grade schooler, and attended the famed Oakland Roadster Show as a young teenager, providing his first serious look at mag wheels, chrome head covers and pinstriping, the fine lines of paint adorning the hottest of rods with flames and flourishes. Although his first car, a 1970 Plymouth Roadrunner, did not sport pinstripes, it did go fast. Among his favorite movies of the era were Vanishing Point and Dirty Mary and Crazy Larry, two tributes to muscle cars and man's insatiable need for speed. In his spare time John listens to too much Sinatra.
Sophie discovers a mysterious crystal cave, but her friends don’t believe her, in this twelfth charming book of The Adventures of Sophie Mouse series! Sophie Mouse and her friends are playing hide-and-seek near Butterfly Brook. Sophie finds the perfect hiding spot, but she finds something else, too! It’s a glowing cave. The problem is, when Sophie tells her friends about her discovery, they don’t believe her! After all, who’s ever heard of a cave that glows? Now Sophie is on a mission to prove she’s telling the truth! With easy-to-read language and illustrations on almost every page, the Adventures of Sophie Mouse chapter books are perfect for beginning readers.
Abbey Brooks, Gila High freshman-to-be, never thought a hellish day of shopping at the mall with her best friend, Kate, could change her life. But when she orders French fries from the flirtatious Hot Dog on a Stick Chick, she gets more than deep-fried potatoes. Abbey tries to ignore the weird, happy feeling in her gut, but that proves to be as impossible as avoiding the very insistent (and—rumor has it—very lesbian) players on Gila High’s girls’ basketball team. They want freakishly long-legged Abbey to try out, and Abbey doesn’t hate the idea. But Kate made Abbey pinky swear to avoid basketball and to keep away from the you- know-who girls on the team. Sometimes promises can’t be kept. And sometimes girls in uniform are impossible to resist.
