![]() He must find another way to raise money-and fast Ed uses his newfound ability to make strange things happen, but his plans go awry and Ed ends up needing money for the soccer team, his friend Mouse, AND two new windows With surreal and funny antics throughout, the second book in this heavily illustrated early chapter book series is sure to keep kids laughing.Ĭustomers who bought this item also bought. Branches books help readers grow Ed has to sell chocolate bars to raise money for his soccer team, but the bars have all melted. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and stamina. This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line called Branches, which is aimed at newly independent readers. ![]() Looniverse #2 is even wackier than the first book ![]() ![]() Reading Level: 3.2 Interest Level: Lower Grades Point Value: 1.0 Review Citations: School Library Journal pg. Physical Information: 0.26" H x 5.35" W x 7.62" (0.30 lbs) 96 pagesįeatures: Ikids, Illustrated, Price on Product, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents Juvenile Fiction | Readers - Chapter Books WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guaranteeīinding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & EditionsĬlick for more in this series: Looniverse ![]() Meltdown Madness: A Branches Book (Looniverse #2), 2Ĭontributor(s): Lubar, David (Author), Loveridge, Matt (Illustrator) In this first book, Ed finds a coin bearing the words 'strange, stranger.' Once this coin comes into his life, strange things start happening all around him. ![]()
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![]() "When the smell of the seed is everywhere, they'll just go and look for something else instead of being encouraged to dig. Because they're hungry, they can't spend all their time searching for food that's hard to find," Professor Banks said. "We found we could reduce mice damage even during plague conditions simply by making it hard for mice to find their food, by camouflaging the seed odour. This, they say, is because the mice had learned to ignore unrewarding wheat odour by the time the crop is planted. The researchers found that if the wheat plot was also sprayed with the same solution before planting, then seed loss reduced by an even better 74 percent. The team estimates that mice successfully steal 63 percent fewer wheat seeds, compared to untreated controls, if a wheat crop is sprayed with diluted wheat germ oil during and after sowing. ![]() The research, published in Nature Sustainability, is led by PhD student Finn Parker, with co-authors Professor Peter Banks, Dr Catherine Price and Jenna Bytheway, from the Sydney Institute of Agriculture and School of Life and Environmental Sciences. ![]() In 2021, NSW Farmers said the mice plague at the time could cause $1 billion of damage to Australian crops. The technique, developed by scientists at the University of Sydney, could be a game-changer in the management of crop loss to mice plague. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The sense of excitement in the characters was certainly mirrored by this reader. This, to me, finally fulfills the promise of the Titan series: a ship of very diverse crewmembers, embarking on a long-term mission of exploration into areas never before touched by the Federation. After the two previous novels in the Titan series dealing with the Romulan situation (plus a side quest to the Small Magellanic Cloud), we finally get the beginning of Titan's mission of exploration beyond the borders of the Federation and into the unexplored region of the Gum Nebula. ![]() ![]() ![]() With macabre humour and moving humanity, Daniel Kehlmann lifts this legend from medieval German folklore and enters him on the stage of the Thirty Years' War. A prince's doomed acceptance of the Bohemian throne has European armies lurching brutally for dominion and now the Winter King casts a sunless pall.īetween the quests of fat counts, witch-hunters and scheming queens, Tyll dances his mocking fugue exposing the folly of kings and the wisdom of fools. As a travelling entertainer, his journey will take him across the land and into the heart of a never-ending war. ![]() In the courts he will trick the heads of state. On the battlefield he will run faster than cannonballs. When he comes out, he will never be the same. ![]() He practises by the mill, by the blacksmiths he practises in the forest at night, where the Cold Woman whispers and goblins roam. Tyll Ulenspiegel is here! In a village like every other village in Germany, a scrawny boy balances on a rope between two trees. His handshake's like a pact with the devil, his smile like a crack in the clouds he's watching you now and he's gone when you turn. ![]() ![]() ![]() On the surface this is a book about the afterlife, and anyone who has read A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens,will be familiar with the genre. What's more, his lessons are so universal, that The Five People You Meet in Heaven, remained on the New York Times Best Seller list for nearly two years. Author Mitch Albon provides us with a narrative for death, grief, and meaning. We can all make significant changes, and we can all impact others and the world around us. ![]() The simple philosophies in this book help us to have agency in how we live our lives, and give us the insight and belief that we can have a starring role in our own stories. So despite our fascination and obsession with celebrities and stars, ordinary people have the capacity to affect profound and lasting change. This book teaches us that we all have a sphere of power, and we can all have a considerable impact on society. When we're asked about people that we look up to, and who we admire, many of us will name people who are famous, or perhaps have a large sphere of influence. By offering lessons and wisdom about what we leave behind when we die, we're given advice on leading more meaningful and fulfilling lives. This beautiful fable, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, tackles death poignantly and pragmatically. How often do you think about your own mortality?ĭeath is generally something we avoid thinking about or discussing. ![]() ![]() ![]() Feel free to ask follow-up questions, I'll keep an eye out. The joined mind shares information in a way that generates progressively worse problems for all of the bodies. ![]() After a flip, communication between joined bodies becomes flawed. They usually change their mind because their understanding of who the other person is has been proven radically wrong. It usually happens when one of the two people changes his or her mind after it's too late. ![]() A join has experience from multiple lives but is always themself.) If one is using a fixative, however, then that person becomes the dominant personality in the join, and relegates the other personality to be sort of second class citizen.Ī flip, on the other hand is a rare and potentially dangerous malfunction in the join. (I've had people tell me they think of it like multiple personas - they're one person at work, another with friends, but they're always themselves. ![]() When two people undergo a standard join, they both feel as though they are the result. A fixative gives a "prejoin personality" an advantage in the join. An exciting addition to 21st century science fiction.' An exciting addition to 21st century science fiction. So, as you know, a "fixative" and a "flip" are both Join related concepts that appear in the book. Steve Toutonghi's Join stands alongside Ancillary Justice as a novel that forces us to ask impossible questions about identity and immortality. Thanks for both the very kind words and for the question. ![]() ![]() ![]() Montalbano’s world is one of vice and deception, but the man himself has an unwavering, if unusual, moral compass. From prostitutes to gangsters, thieves to kidnappers and beyond, almost every character in this series is up to no good in some form or another. Set in a fictional town on the Italian coast, called Vigata, the stories are famed for being violent and featuring some of the worst of human behaviour. As well as the nearly 30 full-length Inspector Montalbano novels, the author also wrote a selection of short stories, compiled into many collections. The series is still going to this very day, with the books spanning nearly 20 years, from the early 90s to the 2020s. Originally published in Italian, and now translated into many languages and popular around the world, Andrea Camilleri’s series about a police inspector with a unique combination of underworld connections and moral compass, is intriguing and unrivalled. The Inspector Montalbano TV series has become popular in the UK and around the world, but it differs greatly from the unique and pioneering series of books on which it is based. ![]() ![]() His other brother William Henry Leonard Poe would also become a poet before his early death, and Poe’s sister Rosalie Poe would grow up to teach penmanship at a Richmond girls’ school. The real Poe was born to traveling actors in Boston on January 19, 1809. But much of what we know about Poe is wrong, the product of a biography written by one of his enemies in an attempt to defame the author’s name. He is seen as a morbid, mysterious figure lurking in the shadows of moonlit cemeteries or crumbling castles. ![]() Just as the bizarre characters in Poe’s stories have captured the public imagination so too has Poe himself. Poe’s reputation today rests primarily on his tales of terror as well as on his haunting lyric poetry. He is widely acknowledged as the inventor of the modern detective story and an innovator in the science fiction genre, but he made his living as America’s first great literary critic and theoretician. This versatile writer’s oeuvre includes short stories, poetry, a novel, a textbook, a book of scientific theory, and hundreds of essays and book reviews. His works have been in print since 1827 and include such literary classics as The Tell-Tale Heart, The Raven, and The Fall of the House of Usher. ![]() ![]() The name Poe brings to mind images of murderers and madmen, premature burials, and mysterious women who return from the dead. ![]() ![]() I spent one heady term at university studying The Prince and The Discourses, and on one blissful evening in Florence I saw his play La Mandragola staged in Renaissance costume in the courtyard of the Bargello. Of course, the only thing more likely to excite me than a novel purely about the Borgias is one which also features Machiavelli. And, while this remarkable family strengthens their grip on Italy, a young diplomat in the Florentine Second Chancery follows their progress with quiet admiration. Violence, predictably, sits in the hands of her dangerous brother Cesare who prowls around the borders of their state, ears pricked for dissent or weakness. ![]() Charm comes courtesy of Pope Alexander VI’s lovely daughter Lucrezia, who is making her way cross-country to be married to her third husband, Alfonso d’Este of Ferrara, and using her journey as a way to captivate the Papal States with her elegance, grace and sweetness. At the beginning of 1502, it seems that nothing can stand in the way of the family’s influence, which creeps its way across Italy, subduing its rivals with a blend of charm and violence. This is the long-awaited sequel to Sarah Dunant’s wonderful Blood and Beauty, which takes up the story of the Borgias once again in the final years of their dominance in Italy. ![]() ![]() ![]() Required to have a college degree, speak two languages, and possess the political savvy of a foreign service officer, a jet-age stewardess serving on iconic Pan Am between 19 also had to be between 5'3" and 5'9", between 105 and 140 pounds, and under 26 years old at the time of hire. Glamour, danger, liberation: in a Mad Men era of commercial flight, Pan Am World Airways attracted the kind of young woman who wanted out, and wanted up. This engrossing true account, which reads like a novel, combines riveting personal stories and little-known aviation history. Customer Relationship Management (CRM) SoftwareĬome Fly The World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am by Julia Cooke. ![]() Flight Instructor Refresher Courses (FIRC). ![]() |