Arrr! Learn to talk like a real pirate the easy way. This handy guide to pirate talk combines fact, fiction, and a lot of fun, with over 450 pirate and nautical terms – plus a Quick-Start Guide – so you'll be talking like a pirate in minutes. The “pirate talk” definitions are loaded with fascinating tips and trivia. You'll soon know the very worst pirate insults, the proper way to compliment a woman (and a few words never to use), authentic...

Far off the coast of California loos a harsh rock known as San Nicolas Island. Blue dolphins splash in the water surrounding it, sea otters play in the kelp beds, and seabirds roots in its crags. Once, Indians also lived on the island-until one day they decided to leave and sail east. A young girl was left behind. Karana is that girl. Year after year, she waits for the ship to come back. But it never does. Finally, she realizes she must make a fateful...

Four English schoolchildren find their way through the back of a wardrobe into the magic land of Narnia and assist its ruler, the golden lion Aslan, to triumph over the White Witch, who has cursed the land with eternal winter

Brief text and illustrations trace the journey of a colorful train as it goes through tunnels, by cities, and over trestles.

An exhilarating ride through the alphabet at a busy construction site is filled with bulldozers, cranes, dump trucks, forklifts ... and even a roller coaster!

When sixteen-year-old Elizabeth is sent to the Wallingfield Psychiatric Facility's Residential Treatment Center, she encounters girls whose problems seem much greater than her own anorexia.

Bilingual text describes a children's party and provides practice counting in English and Spanish.

Two English children undergo hair-raising adventures as they go on a search and rescue mission for the missing Prince Rilian, who is held captive in the underground kingdom of the Emerald Witch. Sequel to "The Voyage of the 'Dawn Treader'."

Under a burning sun on the dry grassland, animals ranging from a tiny field mouse to a large elephant fight over bit of shade until they learn a better way.

While vacationing with their widowed father in the Berkshire Mountains, four lovable sisters, ages four through twelve, share adventures with a local boy, much to the dismay of his snobbish mother