Jamie Watson
Author
Series
Peep and the Big Wide World volume 4
Language
English
Description
Peep borrows a toy boat from Nellie's yard and sets off for mysterious, unreachable Green Island./In order to save Quack (who's stuck inside a pickle Jar-don't ask), Peep must figure out how to float a duck.
Author
Series
Peep and the Big Wide World volume 3
Language
English
Description
Quack is utterly flummoxed when a big rock plants itself in a very inconsiderate spot./Peep, Quack, and Chirp discover their shadows - then use them to teach Tom (that trouble-making cat!) a lesson.
Author
Series
Peep and the Big Wide World volume 1
Language
English
Description
It's winter, it's blah, and everything looks dead. Can Peep, Quack, and Chirp survive until spring?/Peep discovers his inner bounce when he encounters a frog, a mattress, and a jack-in-the-box.
Author
Series
Peep and the Big Wide World volume 10
Language
English
Description
Quack discovers there's more to his pond than meets the eye. (Namely, fish.)/Spooked by falling leaves, Squeak the mouse warns Peep that the entire sky will soon be tumbling down.
Author
Series
Peep and the Big Wide World volume 6
Language
English
Description
A windy day makes Chirp long to fly, but when she accidentally gets aloft, she discovers it isn't as easy as it looks./How big is a step? Turns out it means one thing to a cat, another thing to a rabbit, and something else altogether to a Peep.
Author
Series
Peep and the Big Wide World volume 5
Language
English
Description
Afraid that the sun has forgotten to rise, Peep and Quack are relieved when they discover a flashlight./Peep and Chirp get lost, but use a range of familiar-and annoying-sounds to find their way home.
Author
Series
Peep and the Big Wide World volume 2
Language
English
Description
Lynn visits an Ontatio lamb farm and learns the ropes.
Delve into the colonization movement, an effort that sprang to life in the 1810s to send black people from America to Africa. Consider the questions this movement posed for African Americans: Where was home? Were they African or American? Where did they belong? Investigate both sides of this controversial movement.
Author
Series
Peep and the Big Wide World volume 8
Language
English
Description
Peep's first encounter with thunder and lightning makes for a wet and tumultuous day./After falling into a rabbit hole and meeting three fuzzy bunnies, Peep decides to try life underground.
Author
Series
Peep and the Big Wide World volume 7
Language
English
Description
Newton the turtle has a series of excellent adventures involving a puddle, some dandelion fluff, and a very spooky cracker box./Peep discovers the answer to that ancient conundrum: "Why did the chicken cross the road?"
Author
Series
Masterminds volume 1
Language
English
Description
A recreation of the Bre-X goldmine scam in Indonesia that swindled thousands of investors out of their life savings.
Author
Series
Peep and the Big Wide World volume 9
Language
English
Description
Peep discovers a beaver dam and a young, toothy beaver, while Quack, alas, loses his favorite stick./Peep searches for a house he can call...home.
Author
Series
Masterminds volume 5
Language
English
Description
In the early 1980's, Rik Luytjes gained two sterling reputations. One was as an upstanding businessman and pillar of the community in Scranton, Pennsylvania. The other was as the most successful cocaine smuggler in US history.
Author
Series
Masterminds volume 2
Language
English
Description
There is some doubt that Jonathan Tokeley-Parry was the swashbuckling, British Army cavalry officer he claimed to be. But there is no doubt that he was the world's most successful smuggler of priceless Egyptian antiquities.
Author
Series
Masterminds volume 6
Language
English
Description
Hoa Lam Ong wore an ever present grin on his face; hence the nickname "Smiley." Police suggest the fifteen million dollars worth of goods he stole from the cargo warehouses of Toronto's Pearson Airport gave him plenty to smile about.
Author
Series
Masterminds volume 3
Language
English
Description
Florida police are baffled by a string of robberies in mansions with impenetrable security systems. Find out how Judy Amar was able to pull of these high-profile heists on her own.
Author
Series
Masterminds volume 7
Language
English
Description
A former Chinese intelligence officer posed as a struggling immigrant in Brooklyn and led the most successful car theft ring the city had ever seen, and lined his pockets with over forty million dollars.
Author
Series
Masterminds volume 8
Language
English
Description
Eddie Antar is the father of electronics super store chains... and the mastermind behind the biggest retail fraud in American history.
Author
Series
Masterminds volume 4
Language
English
Description
Jerry Clemente was a brave and decorated officer on the Medford, Massachusetts police force. He was also the mastermind behind the most audacious bank heist the country had ever seen.
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
What a whatchamacallit is. Discover where the sun goes at night. Figure out how to un-flip a turtle. Learn why a step, a squirm, and a hop are very different measurements. Then join real kids as they experiment and play in their own big wide world. Build bridges. Make shadow puppets and track shadows. Find funny ways to measure yourself. It's all part of your scientific research.