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How to Do It Now Because It's Not Going Away: An Expert Guide to Getting Stuff Done

Packed with practical solutions and tips to stay on top of homework, develop a sense of time, manage digital distractions, and create easy-to-follow routines, this guide will help teens stop procrastinating and get their tasks done.

How to Draw & Paint

Easy-to-follow instructions, compelling images, and helpful tips and techniques make these drawing and painting books excellent guides for even beginning artists.

How to Live on the Edge

Eighteen-year-old Cayenne barely remembers her mother, who died of breast cancer when Cayenne was four. The women in her family have a history of dying young. Cayenne figures she'll meet the same fate, so she might as well enjoy life now, engaging in death-defying risks like dodging trains and jumping off cliffs with her boyfriend. When Cayenne receives a series of video messages her mother made for her before dying, she isn't sure she wants them. Her aunt Tee has been her true mother figure. Bu

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Human Microbiome, The: The Germs That Keep Healthy

This book introduces the human microbiome, the 100 trillion microbial cells in each human being's body that are critical to human health. Readers will learn more about how the microbiome works, the role of overuse of antibiotics in compromising the microbiome, and what scientists are discovering about keeping the microbiome healthy and using germs to cure disease.

Human Rights in Focus

Do humans have innate rights? World bodies including the United Nations say the answer is unequivocally yes. What do those rights entail? How are they being violated? And what is being done to ensure respect for human rights for marginalized populations? These and other issues are examined in the Human Rights in Focus series. Vivid details and fully documented quotes add insight into these difficult issues. An appendix gives students ideas about how they can get involved.

Hurricamp!

Ten-and-three-quarter-year-old Laura ""Noodle"" Newman had high hopes about going to sleepaway camp for the first time. Once she's there, however, Noodle is miserable. No one can help her get over her terrible homesickness. Things go from bad to worse when Noodle panics while talking on the camp's radio station. Noodle's moment to shine becomes a bout of stage fright as her bunkmates laugh at her. As a menacing hurricane heads up the coast, life at Camp Hillside turns upside down. Through the cr

I Am America

It's the storytellers that preserve a nation's history. But what happens when some stories are silenced? The I Am America series features fictional stories based on important historical events from people whose voices have been underrepresented, lost, or forgotten over time.

I Am Coyote

Combining rigorous science with imaginative storytelling, I Am Coyote reveals the complex outer and inner lives of coyotes. We are not the only sentient beings on this planet; we are not unique in experiencing love, fear, grief, joy, and acceptance. This story penetrates the veil of -otherness- that separates us from the creatures with whom we share the world. Geri Vistein is a nationally recognized expert on coyote-human interactions and maintains the website CoyoteLivesInMaine.com.

I Begin with Spring: The Life and Seasons of Henry David Thoreau

I Begin with Spring weaves natural history around Thoreau's life and times in a richly illustrated field notebook format that can be opened anywhere and invites browsing on every page. Beginning each season with quotes from Thoreau's schoolboy essay about the changing seasons, Early Bloomer follows him through the fields and woods of Concord, the joys and challenges of growing up, his experiment with simple living on Walden Pond, and his participation in the abolition movement, self-reliance, sc