Publisher: Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press
Angie can’t wait to see her best friend Razan on her visit to Lebanon this spring. She invites her friend to a family picnic and is excited to spend the day together playing games and having fun. But when Razan brings along her cousin, Sama, Angie can’t help but notice that Sama is…different. Will Angie learn to accept Sama and appreciate her uniqueness?
Aunt Hedwig, from Canada, has announced a celebration of her birthday at Falkenstein Castle. Time to find a superb chef! Marie de Remoulade appears out of nowhere and - with her wondrous cooking skills - convinces Count of Falkenstein right away that she's the one for the job. Bibi, Tina and Alex are also delighted by the idea - until suddenly Aunt Hedwig's precious necklace disappears. When Marie is also no longer to be found, Bibi and Tina set off on a thrilling search...Show book
These timeless stories of many lands, delightfully adapted and narrated by Jim Weiss, show that people from all around the world have much in common. These six lesser-known folktales will be enjoyed by the whole family. In this recording from storyteller Jim Weiss, children will hear wisdom from China and Japan, an African romance, and wildly funny Native American, Arabian, and Spanish tales.Show book
Just for the girls in your life, ages 8 and up, this collection of 100 extraordinary stories of women of faith--from the Bible, history, and today--will empower them to know and understand how women have made a difference in the world and how much smaller our faith (and the biblical record) would be without them. Featuring the true stories of amazing women like Lydia, Naomi, Rahab, Rebekah, Jane Austen, Corrie ten Boom, Bethany Hamilton, Rosa Parks, Mother Teresa, and dozens more, the stories of these 100 women will encourage and inspire girls to become the world-changers God created them to be!Show book
Christmas has a way of finding the lonely, the forgotten, and those who no longer dare to hope. In Christmas at Red Butte, Montgomery gifts us a tale wrapped in longing and tied with the ribbon of unexpected joy. The cold prairies seem empty, the holiday spirit a distant dream—until a single spark of kindness turns the season into something magical. This is a story of simple people whose hearts beat in quiet resilience, of family bonds stretched thin by fate yet mended by love, and of Christmas arriving not in grand gestures, but in the warmth of an open door. Montgomery, with her signature touch of gentle wonder, reminds us that even the bleakest December can hold a miracle.Show book
At last Orville was free, soaring above the sand dunes, wind in his face. Lying in the glider's wing, he moved his hips in the control cradle and the craft began to turn as planned. But then something went wrong. The glider wanted to go into a spin, and as Orville struggled with the controls, it came to a standstill in midair. When Orville Wright (1871-1948) and his brother Wilbur set out to solve the problem of flight, they recognized that success would come with careful observation, perseverance, and ingenuity. From experiments in their Dayton, Ohio, bicycle shop to test flights over the beaches of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, the amateur aviation enthusiasts risked their lives and worked tirelessly to solve the problems that had stumped the world's best scientists. Together the Wright brothers designed and constructed a power-driven airplane and, in it, made the world's first controlled, sustained flights. As a result, the skies were opened and the era of aviation began. Heroes of History is a unique biography series that brings the shaping of history to life with the remarkable true stories of fascinating men and women who changed the course of history.Show book
Mowgli is the boy who was raised by wolves. As a very young child, little Mowgli had toddled into the jungle and away from the sight of his distraught mother. Tracked by the lame tiger, Sere Kahn as a tasty morsel to eat, he had been taken in by a wolf family in their lair and protected from the tiger. But the tiger, frustrated from having an easy meal, had vowed he would eat him one day and he plotted for years as the child grew to boyhood. This is the story of how, having been banished from the wolf pack at the age of 12 for being a human, he learns that Sere Kahn is now determined to find and kill him and of what he does about it with the help of his old father and mother wolf. An exciting tale.Show book
