James and the Giant Peach

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Roald, Dahl

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Lewis, Clive Staple

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My First Little House Book Series, Five Book Set; Winter Days in the Big Woods/A Little Prairie House/My Little House Cookbook/Dance at Grandpa's/Christmas in the Big Woods (My First Little House Book Series)

LAURA INGALLS WILDER

A to Z Mysteries: The Deadly Dungeon

RON ROY

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Mooncake

Asch, Frank

Sourland

William H. Armstrong

Hide and Seek

<p>Eight-year-old Rachel Hartog, her sister Esther and her parents are forced to go into hiding as the Germans take over their town. At first they stay with Father Thijssen at the Rectory but have to be moved on because they have been discovered. Separated from their parents, the girls go to another house in Venjuizen to stay with Aunt Nel and Uncle Jaap De Lange (to whom the book is dedicated) where they remain until the end of the war. <br><br>Rachel's first person, present tense narrative draws the reader into her experiences feeling the hurt and confusion. Vos acknowledges that the story of Rachel Herzog is her own. The girls intense fear of going outside after the German defeat, caused by their many years of living inside in fear of discovery, and the letters their family receive telling them of their relatives deaths in concentration camps add depth to the story.</p>

Vos, Ida

The Invisible Day

Frustrated with having to share a room with her little sister and tired of her mother's constant prying, Billie is thrilled when she finds magic cosmetics that make her invisible, but when the magic doesn't wear off right away, Billie fears that she may never be seen again. Reprint.

Jocelyn, Marthe

Humor

Revenge of the Snob Squad

It starts in gym, when the four of them--the worst athletes in school--are forced to become a relay race team. Jenny is more interested in eating candy; Prairie has a bad leg; Lydia is a complete klutz; and Max is, well, Max. They call themselves the "Snob Squad," because they have to choose a name--and, to their surprise, as they practice, they find themselves becoming friends. So when they vow revenge on their archenemies, the Neon Nikes, headed by the principal's bratty daughter, it's time to watch out!"A dark laugh-out-loud comedy . . . Peters has written a moving story with laughter that doesn't make the sadness go away but makes it almost bearable." --Booklist

Peters, Julie Anne

Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies

What is economic growth? And why, historically, has it occurred in only a few places? Previous efforts to answer these questions have focused on institutions, geography, finances, and psychology. But according to MIT's antidisciplinarian César Hidalgo, understanding the nature of economic growth demands transcending the social sciences and including the natural sciences of information, networks, and complexity. To understand the growth of economies, Hidalgo argues, we first need to understand the growth of order.   At first glance, the universe seems hostile to order. Thermodynamics dictates that over time, order--or information--will disappear. Whispers vanish in the wind just like the beauty of swirling cigarette smoke collapses into disorderly clouds. But thermodynamics also has loopholes that promote the growth of information in pockets. Our cities are pockets where information grows, but they are not all the same. For every Silicon Valley, Tokyo, and Paris, there are dozens of places with economies that accomplish little more than pulling rocks off the ground. So, why does the US economy outstrip Brazil's, and Brazil's that of Chad? Why did the technology corridor along Boston's Route 128 languish while Silicon Valley blossomed? In each case, the key is how people, firms, and the networks they form make use of information.    Seen from Hidalgo's vantage, economies become distributed computers, made of networks of people, and the problem of economic development becomes the problem of making these computers more powerful. By uncovering the mechanisms that enable the growth of information in nature and society, Why Information Grows lays bear the origins of physical order and economic growth. Situated at the nexus of information theory, physics, sociology, and economics, this book propounds a new theory of how economies can do, not just more, but more interesting things.

Return to Ghost Camp (Goosebumps Series 2000, No 19)

STINE, R.L.

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