MIKE GORDON

The Robin Hill School first-graders take a field trip to a pumpkin patch in this Level 1 Ready-to-Read, now in hardcover for the first time The first grade class at Robin Hill School is going on a field trip to a pumpkin patch Katie wants to find the perfect pumpkin. She picks a pumpkin and then decides it is too small. Her dad says good things come in small packages

In this sweeping, riveting, sometimes raucous, always brutally honest Alaskan epic, Mike Gordon - between the strenuous ups-and-downs of climbing the highest peak on each continent - fights the ghosts of his childhood, survives the rough-and-tumble atmosphere of the bar business in the Last Frontier and struggles, often at long odds, to keep the woman he loves. If you've ever had moments of self-doubt, found yourself addicted to drugs, wondered how to overcome low self-esteem or whether you could do the seemingly impossible to overcome them all, by the end of this book you'll want to stand on a chair and shout out loud. Learning the Ropes takes the reader on a wild ride from the Old South through Wild West Alaska by way of blatant racial discrimination, crazy motorcycle gangs, Russian revolution, dizzying heights and the underbelly of Spenard.

Teens today can hardly conceive of a world in which women did not have the right to vote and women's domain truly was the home. Showing the long way that American women have come, this book reviews the major events in the fight for women's rights. The narrative focuses on important leaders and the reforms that they demanded--and organized to win. The authors trace a fascinating path from the colonial period, when women's roles were highly circumscribed, to today's era of fifty-percent representation in the workplace.

Katie and her family make shamrocks for each of her classmates to celebrate St. Patrick's Day, but when Mrs. Connor shows a shamrock that looks very different, Katie is sad until, together, they learn the distinction between a shamrock and a four-leaf clover. Katie and her family make shamrocks for her classmates to celebrate St. Patrick's Day, but when Mrs. Connor shows a shamrock that looks very different, Katie is sad until they learn the distinction between a shamrock and a four-leaf clover.

While on a school field trip to pick pumpkins, Katie believes that she has found the perfect pumpkin until everyone starts making fun of her selection, but her father teaches her that perfection comes in many forms. Simultaneous.