Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television "family." But when he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn't live in fear and to a present...

Even reluctant readers will be pulled into these engaging experiments about force! Cool activities, like constructing different types of ping-pong catapults, make science concepts both tangible and fun. Enthusiastic readers will love trying recommended additional twists to activities. They ll learn amazing real-life examples of the same forces they are studying at home, such as how tightrope walkers use poles to keep their mass over their center of...

Describes the sun and each planet of the solar system and introduces concepts such as a day, a year, orbit, and rotation.

Describes the geography, history, economy, culture, and people of the state of California, and includes ideas for classroom assignments.

In this magical debut, a couple's lives are changed forever by the arrival of a little girl, wild and secretive, on their snowy doorstep.
Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart — he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair. In a moment of levity during the season's first snowfall, they build...

Describes the geography, history, economy, culture, and people of the state of Hawaii, and includes ideas for classroom assignments.

Explores the land, people, history, economy, and travel opportunities of the state of Wyoming.

Describes the history, geography, ecology, people, economy, cities, and sights of the state of Oklahoma, and includes ideas for classroom assignments.

Describes the geography, history, plants and animals, economy, language, religions, culture, and people of Denmark.

Presents the history, geography, climate, plants and animals, cities, transportation, natural resources, industry, sports, entertainment, and people of Minnesota, as well as general facts about the state.