Maddie has been convicted of a crime she didn't commit and sentenced to death, and it's up to time-traveling detectives Joe and Maya to prove her innocence When Joe Smallwood goes to stay with his Uncle Theo and cousin Maya, life seems dull until he finds a strange smartphone nestling beside a gravestone. The phone enables Joe and Maya to become time-traveling detectives, and takes them on exciting adventures back to the past. The two young sleuths must journey back to Victorian times to try and save the life of an innocent girl. Can Joe and Maya save innocent maidservant Maddie Musgrove from the gallows?
Getting Ready for the 4th Grade Assessment Test: Help Improve Your Child’s Math and English Skills – Many parents are expressing a demand for books that will help their children succeed and excel on the fourth grade assessment tests in math and English –especially in areas where children have limited access to computers. This book will help students practice basic math concepts, i.e., number sense and applications as well as more difficult math, such as patterns, functions, and algebra. English skills will include practice in reading comprehension, writing, and vocabulary. Rubrics are included for self-evaluation.
Elderly Michael's brother disappeared many years ago, during World War II, and it's up to time-traveling detectives Joe and Maya to find out just what happened Joe and his cousin Maya stumble upon an old house in the middle of the woods. It's occupant, Michael, has a sad and strange tale to tell. Michael was evacuated to Dorset during World War II with his twin brother, Danny. While there, Danny mysteriously disappeared and was never heard from again. Can Joe and Maya succeed where the police failed, journey back to 1941, and trace Michael's missing brother?
This extraordinary new book by the British author, John Joss, will amaze, entertain and educate readers of all ages. Its 300 pages contain fifty remarkable 'incidents, ' each a riveting story in itself. INCIDENTS is a sweeping biographical chronicle of a venturesome, joyful and successful life. It moves, with never a dull page, from amusing and poignant childhood anecdotes to risking his life- flying military aircraft and gliders, racing on two and four wheels, and sailing the oceans. The breadth and depth of experience and the sheer audacity of this multi-faceted and enterprising man would be hard to equal by many men, combined. John Joss entered the Royal Navy in England at 16, took initial pilot training, but was near-fatally injured in a motorcycle accident while returning to his ship. Invalided from the Service, he went to work, writing initially for a motorcycle magazine, then for industry. He emigrated to America, working first for corporations, then freelance, writing about business, technology and military aviation and participating in the world technology business center, Silicon Valley. He has raced cars, motorcycles, dinghies and yachts, trodden London's West End stages, explored Mexico, worked in the Gulf of Mexico oil patch, flown the Space Shuttle Simulator, evaded a Soviet military spy in Washington, helped find the sunken nuclear submarine Thresher, flown with the Blue Angels, the Marine Corps and U.S. Air Force and written business plans for Silicon Valley startups. He became the first journalist-pilot to fly and write about the U-2 spy plane, dodged a minefield at Fort Irwin, California, wrote for major media, did radio commercials and documentary voice-overs, soared gliders in the Sierra Nevada, created a high-tech series for network radio, commentated at car and motorcycle racetracks, sailed around the world, penned twenty novels, nonfiction books, screenplays and plays, and fathered three daughters. Not boring. Just as he wished.
Joe and Maya are exploring a ruined castle in Scotland when they uncover the story of a stolen chalice and a curse that led to the castle's downfall 750 years ago. Journeying back to the 13th century, they embark on a search for ythe chalice, hoping to restore the castle's fortunes. Will they suceed or will the castle fall 'to wrack and ruin' as the curse foretold?
"With over 350 illustrations, timelines and box features, A Short History of the World is a comprehensive and entertaining look at the ways in which man has spent his time on earth. Find out how the great Egyptian dynasties crumbled, how medieval Europe fell prey to the Black Death, how Enlightenment thinkers changed the course of history, and much more." -- Dust jacket.
GENERAL FICTION (CHILDREN'S / TEENAGE). Gisela, the daughter of an Anglo-Saxon chieftain, is a brave and skilful archer. When her village is attacked by a band of fierce Vikings are her parents are kidnapped, Gisela has a decision to make. Ages 9+
