Madison has mono! Gramma Helen comes to take care of her, and soon a cold isn't the only thing Madison is fighting. Between mono, moms, and a cute new neighbor, Madison's temperature is about to skyrocket.
DIVDIVBeing stuck at home with the flu is bad, but being heartsick is worse!/divDIV Ugh! Maddie and her BFFs Fiona and Aimee all have the flu and need to stay home from school. Maddie is so sick that Gramma Helen has to fly in from Chicago to take care of her while her mom works. Trapped in bed, Maddie’s only interaction with the outside world is through her computer and her bedroom window. When she spies a cute boy next door, she wonders how she never noticed him before. The boy is Josh Turner—a ninth grader—and Maddie certainly notices him now. Josh seems to be flirting with her, and Maddie is falling hard. It seems her long-held crush on Hart has faded. Is it possible that Maddie has had a change of heart?/div/div
DIVDIVMadison must balance a confusing class election with thoughts of her first crush/divDIV Madison Finn couldn’t be happier when she’s picked to work on Far Hills Junior High’s election website. She can’t wait to focus on the website instead of her parents’ divorce and her first-ever crush. When her best friend Aimee decides to give their nemesis, Poison Ivy, some competition for class president, Madison knows the election will get heated. But Madison never thought that a cyber crasher would mess with the site’s candidate profiles. Worst of all, everyone thinks Madison is to blame. Now that she’s in the hot seat, she’d better fix it—fast! /div/div
DIVDIVMadison is tired of all the secrets—why can’t everyone just keep it real?/divDIV Madison’s not sure if her imagination is working overtime. Everyone—including her mom—is acting different! When Maddie checks out a new feature on TweenBlurt.com, she finds out her keypal, Bigwheels, has been keeping things from her. And then Hart sends a mean email about Madison—is he keeping secrets too?/divDIV The truth is not always obvious, and Maddie isn’t sure how to get the answers she wants. When her mom tells her a secret about Poison Ivy’s family, Maddie knows it’s serious news, and she’s tempted to share it—especially when Ivy is acting mean. But some information is not ours to share . . ./div/div
DIVAlgebra is hard, but love is harder/divDIV For a twelve-year-old, Bingo Brown has a lot figured out. He has good friends, he knows how to cook, and he’s even made peace with the school bully. But the problem with being twelve is that new problems keep popping up and confusing him. Soon Bingo is panicking over the love of his life moving to Oklahoma, the school bully asking for relationship advice, and his parents acting weirder than ever. If Bingo’s ever going to make it to high school with his heart in one piece, he’s going to need to ace every test in the language of love./divDIV /divDIVThis ebook features an illustrated biography of Betsy Byars including rare images from the author’s personal collection./div
DIVQuestion one: How is it possible to fall in love with three girls in one day in a single English class?/divDIV Bingo Brown is an average sixth grader with an unusually serious approach to the business of being twelve. He’s got some “burning questions”—why does he get such wild crushes on girls? How can he avoid the school bully? Why is his favorite teacher acting so strangely?—and he’s determined to figure them out./divDIV /divDIVThis first entry in Byars’s acclaimed Bingo Brown series smartly captures all the highs and lows of adolescence./divDIV /divDIVThis ebook features an illustrated biography of Betsy Byars including rare images from the author’s personal collection./div
One of America's most versatile writers, author of bestselling biographies such as Steve Jobs and Benjamin Franklin, has assembled a gallery of portraits of (mostly) Americans that celebreate genius, talent, and versatility, and traces his own education as a writer and biographer. In this collection of essays, the brilliant, acclaimed biographer Walter Isaacson reflects on lessons to be learned from Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, Bill Gates, Henry Kissinger, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton, and other interesting characters he has chronicled both as biographer and journalist. The people he writes about have an awesome intelligence, but that is not the secret to their success. They had qualities that were even more rare, such as imagination and true curiousity. Isaacson also reflects on how he became a writer, the lessons he learned from various people he met, and the challenges for journalism in the digital age. He also offers loving tributes to his hometown of New Orleans, which offers many of the ingredients for a creative culture, and to the Louisiana novelist Walker Percy, who was an early mentor. In an anecdotal and personal way, Isaacson describes the joys of writing and the way that tales about the lives of fascinating people can enlighten our own lives.
Find out what goes on every day Inside the Germs! Detailed illustrations, color photos, and simple text combine to make a fun and easy introduction to how germs work. This book also includes simple activities and crafts like Glitter Germs, Bacteria Splits and an edible cell with how-to photos to further engage young learners. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Super Sandcastle is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.