Woods: 1346 books

The Coretta Scott King Honor-winning author tells the moving story of the friendship between a young white boy and a Black WWII veteran who has recently returned to the unwelcoming Jim Crow South. On Gabriel's twelfth birthday, he gets a new bike--and is so excited that he accidentally rides...

In this book you'll meet a hideous creature that can live for a month without its head, a beetle that blasts its victims with toxic bottom spray, weird beings that breathe through their skin, five-eyed monsters that vomit on their prey to turn them into soup, and much, much more! Bug your friends with monstrous trivia and nightmarish facts.

Psst! This is the best book you'll ever read on pirates! Did you know that 19 September is Talk Like a Pirate Day? Avast there, me hearties! Find out why pirates should have eaten cabbage, but drank rum instead. Discover which captain stole hats, and which one burgled for bandages. Tremble...

Nobody would believe Dennis Leeper was a hero. He was the kind of kid you hid from when he pedaled his rickety bike down the road. But Jamie couldn’t say no when his father asked him to include Dennis in the raft project. And someone needed to hold the line when Jamie and his cousin Jerry finally...

This book is a creative tool to spark interest in children to learn sign language, develop acts of kindness, and learn positive ways to deal with problems. Have you ever wanted a dog? Kiley loves animals. She wants a dog most of all. The landlord won't allow them to have even a goldfish in...

Within our solar system, the balance of Nature has been critically disturbed. Warmongering alien forces are exploiting fertile planets to fuel their military resources. As a consequence, Earth is experiencing unprecedented high tides and strange weather anomalies. Crops are failing and the smaller...

Writing this second edition of Biochemical Genetics proved to be more difficult than I had anticipated. The fixed format of the series meant that the addition of new material was made possible only by the dele­ tion of old. Since the book is intended for a student audience, I have retained the historical...

What are best friends for? Murder, maybe. Zoe and Cara were as close as friends could be—until Zoe moved away in fourth grade. Miserable without Zoe, Cara grew into an unhappy sixteen-year-old, tormented by the popular girls and nursing a hopeless crush. Then one day Cara returns home from...

Change is brewing for Lily Lapp. Her favorite cousin, Hannah, moves away and Harvey Hershberger, a boy with a talent for trouble, moves right in. Harvey's antics stir up the entire schoolhouse, and his fondness for Lily gets under Aaron Yoder's skin. Add in a mischievous dog rescued by Lily's brother,...

An amazing story told in short chapters to make it easy for kids to read on their own! Barbie and her sisters are excited to travel to a tropical island. But when their puppies get lost, the sisters’ island vacation turns into an island adventure!

The Green Thread: Dialogues with the Vegetal World is an interdisciplinary collection of essays in the emerging field of Plant Studies. The volume is the first of its kind to bring together a dynamic body of scholarship that shares a critique of long-standing human perceptions of plants as lacking...

RT gave 4 stars! Mona Graves wants her former daughter-in-law, Rose Jacqueline, on death row for Nicky's murder. Mona lives for vengeance. R.J. wants Mona to leave her to live her life without being the target of an unrelenting quest for vengeance. Tom wants 'Jackie' to see his...

It's the time of the Tolpuddle trial and unrest. The Dorset labourers work under terrible conditions for starvation wages. When her mother and stepfather perish in a fire, an illegitimate peasant girl, Siana Lewis, is left destitute, with a young brother and baby sister to support. Securing...

Sherlock Holmes is missing. Dr. Watson receives a cursed note, summoning him to the city of Milan. In his plight, he turns to the one person who can help him: Mycroft Holmes, secret agent and eternally concerned elder brother. Mycroft has to team up with Dr. Watson and fellow agent Victoria Trevor to follow Sherlock’s trail and stand against the dark forces that threaten his life.