Del Norte Public Library

"These award-winning books, games, and activities will help kids learn everything from letter recognition and letter sounds, to spelling, vocabulary, and independent reading. This pack includes apps that have won industry awards including a Family Choice Award, a Kapi Award to innovation in children's media, a Parent's Choice Award and more."--Publisher description.

Look into the minds and hearts of women inmates of a New York prison. Go inside a writing workshop led by Eve Ensler, where the women create works of poetry and prose which ends in the performance of their writing by critically acclaimed actors.

Explorers, scholars, adventurers, and archaeologists search the world for answers to some of history's most persistent mysteries, including the meaning of Egyptian hieroglyphics, the purpose of Stonehenge, the secret underground water system of Petra, the lost cities of the Incas, and others.

"Learn the language basics that make writing in English simple. Build knowledge and master new skills anytime, anywhere with these interactive learning tools. This pack includes tutorials, flash cards and quizzes covering: -Introduction to Writing -Writing Systems -Thinking, Planning and Effective Writing -Grammar and Writing Process -Scientific Writing -Resume Writing -Writing Summary -Writing Business Plans and Emails -Writing Proposals -Neurodevelopmental...

Based on the best-selling novel, Lily James (Mamma Mia! We Go Again, Cinderalla, Baby Driver) plays free-spirited writer Juliet Ashton, who forms a life-changing bond with eccentric Guernsy Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society when she decides to write about the book club they formed during the occupation of Guernsey during WWII.

Mary is a lonely eight-year-old in the suburbs of Melbourne. Struggling with questions that no one can answer, she writes to Max, an obese 44-year-old Jewish man with Asperger's Syndrome living in New York City, which starts a friendship that spans 20 years and two continents.

Craig Childs has spent years in the deserts of the American West--as an adventurer, a river guide, and a field instructor--and has developed a keen appreciation for these forbidding landscapes: their beauty, their wonder, and especially their paradoxes. His extraordinary treks through arid lands in search of water are an astonishing revelation of the natural world at its most extreme.

Traces the history of the struggle to decipher the Mayan language, describes the conflicting approaches, and explains what Mayan inscriptions reveal about their culture.

Sixty-one years ago, the United States and Japanese armies met on Iwo Jima. Decades later, hundreds of letters are unearthed from that stark island's soil. The letters give faces and voices to the men who fought there, as well as the extraordinary general who led them. Leading the defense is Lt. General Tadamichi Kuribayashi. With little defense other than sheer will and the volcanic rock of the island itself, Gen. Kuribayashi's unprecedented tactics...

"While advancing their reading and writing skills to the next level, kids will have fun exploring games, traveling through new worlds, and embarking on reading adventures. Practice phonics; Learn how to spell; Focus on early reading and writing skills; Explore interactive stories."--