When he finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West Virginia home, Marty tries to hide it from his family and the dog's real owner, a mean-spirited man known to shoot deer out of season and to mistreat his dogs

Eleven-year-old Melody has a photographic memory. Her head is like a video camera that is always recording. And there's no delete button. Considered by many to be mentally retarded, a brilliant, impatient fifth-grader with cerebral palsy discovers something that will allow her to speak for the first time

When he decides to turn his fifth grade teacher's love of the dictionary around on her, clever Nick Allen invents a new word and begins a chain of events that quickly moves beyond his control

When Laura Ingalls and her family set out for Kansas, they travel for many days in their covered wagon until they find the perfect place to call home. Pioneer life is sometimes hard, but Laura and her family are busy and happy building their new little house. For anyone who has ever read and loved Little House on the Prairie, and for those who have yet to discover Laura's world, this is a volume to cherish

It is a romantic adventure, filled with drama and heartache, for not only was mere subsistence on so desolate a sport a near miracle, but Karana had to contend with the ferocious pack of wild dogs that killed her brother, constantly guard against the Aleutian sea-otter hunters, and maintain a precarious food supply, even when it meant battling an octopus

Included in this volume are national parks, forests, lakeshores and wildlife refuges, as well as state-run preserves and scenic byways. Compelling text and photography will lead you on an unforgettable armchair adventure. A wealth of practical advice-including contact information, recreational opportunities, and nearby accommodations and atractions-will help you plan your own trip

The striking landscape of the Pacific Northwest has inspired painters to put brush to canvas ever since the first European explorers sailed into local waters. A continuous, robust, and evolving artistic view of the region is represented in the140 paintings selected for this beautiful book

This book is about a man who, unwittingly, seems to have solved one of the riddles of Time and bridged the chasm between the remote past and the present, and about his life and his art. He is a Nenets by nationality, coming from the Far North

This book is about famous russian painter. He was one of the first Russian painters to combine in his art the reality of life with symbolism, a passionate love for nature with a strongly individual approach to it

This edition presents about the IFLA conference in Oslo in 2005 and the Norwegian Library Association and Norwegian Librarianship