Social Science Kids

Clove always helps people with their problems. But now she has a problem--and nobody can help her. She has been chosen to speak at the Spice Town show and tell programme, but she is too afraid to speak! Can she help herself this time? This is a zesty tale about finding the courage to do things differently.

Join Sunny, a cloud, on a captivating journey to learn the magical art of smiling in The Happy Cloud Adventure. This enchanting children's book, filled with joy and life lessons, is perfect for teaching young listeners about the power of positivity and finding happiness within themselves.

In the western culture we now have a 40 percent incidence of obesity, prediabetes, and Type 2 diabetes. I have written books explaining how this happened, how to prevent it, and how to manage it. I realized this was incomplete as now we have over 30 percent of children with obesity. Fat newborns have an increased risk of eventual development of obesity and subsequent type two diabetes.

When 11-year-old Aidan receives a mysterious package of sweets from South America in the post, he and his two best friends Sadie and Hussein eat one sweet each - and suddenly develop amazing superpowers. Sadie can move objects with her mind. Hussein can control any electronic device. And Aidan can ignite his body at will...and when he's on fire, he can fly. When they discover that the sweets were sent by a traitorous criminal who is trying to hunt them down to get them back, they have to use all their new powers to outwit him.

At the age of 5, he arrived at a Greyhound bus station in California, transplanted from Mexico City into the pervasive sounds of English. Now with the ink still fresh on his Juris Doctor diploma, he looks back on the journey with the rigorous training he acquired in law school as he compellingly weaves together a vivid interpretation of the raw experiences that drove him along that journey—across his childhood experiences with violence and exclusion for being Spanish-speaking, his struggles to succeed in school despite the limits of poverty.

Engage in some wonderful, laughable, and mind-boggling truths and quizzes to occupy those boring hours on the road! Are you planning a quick getaway out of town, together with loved ones (kids included)? Wondering what to do to entertain your jumpy, grumpy children in the back of the car?

Liebe Kinder, liebe Eltern, herzlich willkommen! In diesem Buch haben meine Frau und ich jede Menge alltägliche Geräusche zusammengestellt und als Quiz für euch aufbereitet. Auch dieses Hörbuch ist bei unseren Kindern wieder Probe gelaufen und kam sehr gut an.

Brave women from diverse backgrounds make the world a better place through their businesses in this inspiring companion to the best-selling Girls Think of Everything by Sibert-winner Catherine Thimmesh and Caldecott Honor winner Melissa Sweet. For fans of Women Who Dared and Women in Science.

In Modern Families, Joshua Gamson brings us extraordinary family creation tales - his own included - that illuminate this changing world of contemporary kinship. Combining personal memoir and ethnographic storytelling, Modern Families tells a variety of unconventional family-creation tales - adoption and assisted reproduction, gay and straight parents, coupled and single, and multi-parent families - set against the social, legal, and economic contexts in which they were made.

Enjoy the occurrences that you find in this audiobook, challenging and hilarious questions of what you would you rather. The players choose situations in which each one could give different answers. This audiobook is perfect for those moments of games or anytime to enjoy with friends and family.

We know you shouldn't take your dragon to the library, but what about taking him out to dinner? After all, dragons need to eat, too! But with fiery breath, flapping wings, and pointy spikes, that might not be a good idea! Rhyming text and diverse characters bring the importance of dinner manners to a new level in this charming story.

When Frankie and his best friend, Drew, head back to the Middle Ages for one last trip with the Sonic Suitcase, they’re in for some strange surprises. What kind of knight rides a pig into battle? Who’s the mysterious stranger who turns up right when Frankie’s in serious trouble? And what could possibly make Drew want to stay in the Middle Ages forever?​ Only one thing is certain Frankie’s last time-travel adventure will be one to remember....

I live near a biscuit factory. Sounds like a dream come true, right? But it's not all fun and jammie dodgers. You see, the biscuit factory is really a Super-Secret Science Lab. Everyone pretends it makes biscuits. It just makes life easier. Until today. Because the biscuit factory tore a hole through dimensions, and now huge orange monsters are climbing through. Oh, and if we don't do something, the world is going to go kablooey in the next 30 minutes. Not on my watch. You coming?

Urmel und seine Freunde bekommen Besuch von Otto. Urmel und seine Freunde sind begeistert: Der kleine Raumfahrer nimmt alle mit zum Mond. Dort gibt es Erstaunliches zu entdecken.

McKenzie and her boyfriend, Brady, are having the best summer ever when Mack’s aunt arrives to bring her back east for school. Before Mack leaves for her exclusive prep school, she and Brady decide to surf one last wave for the summer. But after a surfing mishap, the duo finds themselves transported into a classic 1960s' beach movie musical! They soon discover that there is an intense rivalry between the local surfers and bikers.

McKenzie and her boyfriend, Brady, are having the best summer ever when Mack’s aunt arrives to bring her back east for school. Before Mack leaves for her exclusive prep school, she and Brady decide to surf one last wave for the summer. But after a surfing mishap, the duo finds themselves transported into a classic 1960s' beach movie musical! They soon discover that there is an intense rivalry between the local surfers and bikers.

When Frankie and Drew get in an argument about how ancient Egyptians really walked, there's only one way to set the record straight - a quick time-travel adventure! But what happens when Frankie and Drew's precious Sonic Suitcase ends up buried inside a booby-trap-ridden pyramid? There's only one way to get it back - by going inside and hoping they can make it out again.

One day when little fairy Macriona is in town to buy a tinwhiste for school, she has a panic attack among all the people. Lucky for her, Janosch comes along. A man of special abilities, he can see her and help. He tells her he has panic attacks too, she is not alone. He starts her out on her journey of learning to manage her anxiety. Macriona learns techniques and tricks how to manage better and this includes sharing how she feels with Mary, her elder fairy.

A fun and important audiobook for educators and parents to help children succeed in virtual learning in a fun and playful way! Having a pet dragon is really fun, and you can teach him to do lots of cool things.... But what happens if one day schools are closed due to the virus pandemic, and your dragon has to do virtual/distance learning? What if virtual learning is too hard for him? What if he gets bored easily and cannot stay engaged? Get this audiobook now and lean how to prepare your dragon (and kids) to learn online successfully!

Ever wondered where some writers get their characters? Just maybe they come from Mack's One Stop Character Shop, where grumpy wizards, weeping dragons, singing chestnuts, arguing lemons, miniature lady vampires, giant flies, slippered frogs, knighted ogres and creatures there aren't even names for await your discovery. You'll be so dazzled by the amount of oddities that you'll be wanting to make your own trip to Mack's asap... particularly if you also like to pen the odd tale.