Louisa and Sissy are the best of friends. Or… they were... Now Sissy won’t so much as look at Louisa and Louisa has no idea why. It’s another mystery for you and your cousin, Pippa, to solve. Will you interview Sissy’s brother or will you snoop around her back garden to spy on her? You decide what order to collect the clues, and once you have them all, see if you can solve the mystery before Pippa does!
It took your cousin, Pippa, months to save up enough money to buy a video game, and now it won’t load. You’ve convinced her to see it as a mystery, not a disaster, but it wasn’t easy, and the internet and the game company offer no help. Did the game break on its own, or did someone break it on purpose? Who among your friends might have wanted to hurt Pippa this way? Pippa will need you to decide which clues to examine and in what order. See if you can solve the mystery before Pippa does!
When your classmate, Louisa, arrives at school in tears, you hope there’s a way to make her smile again. Someone stole a pendant worn by her great-grandmother, and the clues are utterly baffling: a damaged chain, an out of place sock, and no sign of the pendant anywhere. But with you and Pippa on the case, Louisa has high hopes. Do you think you can find her family’s missing jewel? See if you can solve the mystery before Pippa does!
Can you solve the mystery before Pippa does? Kiran’s corgi puppy has gone missing in the woods and Kiran is beside himself with worry. There was a nasty rainstorm last night and the poor little thing is out there alone. This is a case you and Pippa know how to solve. Or is it a set-up? Pippa’s good at making friends, but she also has enemies, and she fears someone is out to learn her secret. Can you find the puppy in the woods? Or should you stop the search before someone catches on to the fact that neither you nor your cousin are quite what you seem? Get your copy and see if you can crack the case!
It is a plain, boring pencil to most people, but you've had it for ages. It's your lucky pencil, but now it's missing. What's worse, your cousin Pippa sees you crying over it. But she doesn't laugh. She sees this as a new mystery to solve, and she needs your help. The werefoxes are on the move again, this time to track down that missing pencil! Pippa needs YOU to decide where to look and what order to collect clues. See if you can solve the mystery of who has your missing pencil before Pippa does?
A stuffed buffalo, a plush stingray, and a plastic ball venture outdoors and discover snow for the very first time in this delightful wintry picture book. Lumphy, StingRay, and Plastic—the toys from the beloved chapter books Toys Go Out, Toy Dance Party, and Toys Come Home—are back in a glorious full-color picture book, perfect for gift-giving this holiday season. Acclaimed author Emily Jenkins and Caldecott Medal–winning illustrator Paul Zelinsky have created a book destined to become a classic. Children who have loved listening to the Toys trilogy, as well as those meeting the toys for the very first time, will be thrilled to see Lumphy, StingRay, and Plastic venture outdoors to play in the snow. Together the toys build a snowman, make snow angels, and, when day is done, head back inside their cozy house and wait for the return of the Little Girl.
In this follow-up to "Shakespeare's Secret," Broach delivers a fast-paced mystery in which a young boy and a beetle attempt to pull off a staged art heist at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Illustrations.
Introducing The Critter Club! Amy and her friends solve a canine caper in this start to a pet-friendly illustrated chapter book series. It’s Spring Break in Santa Vista, and everyone has big plans...everyone except for Amy, that is! As her best friends head out of town on exciting adventures, Amy resigns herself to helping out at her mom’s vet clinic. At least she’ll be around cute animals! But when Santa Vista’s cold and elusive millionaire, Marge Sullivan, brings her puppy Rufus for a check-up, Amy encounters an unexpected mystery. After her friends return home, the girls get to the bottom of what happened to Rufus—and discover a way to help other lost and lonely animals in their town. With easy-to-read language and illustrations on almost every page, The Critter Club chapter books are perfect for beginning readers.
"A must read."—CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2022 "Holds up a mirror to the unifying, braided futures underlying so-called 'Western' and 'Muslim' feminism that are both undermined by the power of capital, the world trade order, and cynical geopolitics."—2023 Association for Asian Studies Coomaraswamy Book Prize A crystal-clear account of the entangled history of Western and Muslim feminisms. Western feminists, pundits, and policymakers tend to portray the Muslim world as the last and most difficult frontier of global feminism. Challenging this view, Elora Shehabuddin presents a unique and engaging history of feminism as a story of colonial and postcolonial interactions between Western and Muslim societies. Muslim women, like other women around the world, have been engaged in their own struggles for generations: as individuals and in groups that include but also extend beyond their religious identity and religious practices. The modern and globally enmeshed Muslim world they navigate has often been at the weaker end of disparities of wealth and power, of processes of colonization and policies of war, economic sanctions, and Western feminist outreach. Importantly, Muslims have long constructed their own ideas about women’s and men’s lives in the West, with implications for how they articulate their feminist dreams for their own societies. Stretching from the eighteenth-century Enlightenment era to the War on Terror present, Sisters in the Mirror shows how changes in women’s lives and feminist strategies have consistently reflected wider changes in national and global politics and economics. Muslim women, like non-Muslim women in various colonized societies and non-white and poor women in the West, have found themselves having to negotiate their demands for rights within other forms of struggle—for national independence or against occupation, racism, and economic inequality. Through stories of both well-known and relatively unknown figures, Shehabuddin recounts instances of conflict alongside those of empathy, collaboration, and solidarity across this extended period. Sisters in the Mirror is organized around stories of encounters between women and men from South Asia, Britain, and the United States that led them, as if they were looking in a mirror, to pause and reconsider norms in their own society, including cherished ideas about women’s roles and rights. These intertwined stories confirm that nowhere, in either Western or Muslim societies, has material change in girls’ and women’s lives come easily or without protracted struggle.
