"Winner of the 2016 Erving Goffman Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Social Interaction, Media Ecology Association" David J. Alworth is assistant professor of English and of History and Literature at Harvard University. Site Reading offers a new method of literary and cultural interpretation and a new theory of narrative setting by examining five sites-supermarkets, dumps, roads, ruins, and asylums-that have been crucial to American...

Can you sing a song? Can you play an instrument? This book shows, lots of ways, to make music. Which instrument would you, like to play?

Have you ever had an x-ray? X-rays are like photographs of your bones. They show what is inside your body. X-rays show if your bones are broken. Animals can have x-rays of their bodies too.

Fruit is delicious food. Yum! Do you know, lots of different kinds of fruit? What is your favorite fruit?

Can you get ready all by yourself? Can you do up zips and buttons and bows? What is the first thing you do when you get ready to go out in the morning?

Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel -- a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.

As six Californians get together to form a book club to discuss the novels of Jane Austen, their lives are turned upside down by troubled marriages, illicit affairs, changing relationships, and love.

Her magical book of stories is wordless until a whisper in the wind tells a little girl to imagine a story for each page.

"A deadly Enemy has threatened the future of Story--and twelve-year-old Una Fairchild is the only one who can stop his plans and save the character world from destruction"--Provided by publisher.

In this humorous and relatable novel from Newbery Medal-winning author Beverly Cleary, a girl must overcome her rebellious attitude toward learning cursive.

At first, Maggie is just feeling stubborn when she declares she won't learn cursive. What's wrong with print, anyway? And she can easily type on a computer, so why would she need to know how to read those squiggly lines? But soon all her classmates are buzzing about

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