James Barry

For kids in grade 3 and up who love the Milwaukee Bucks, this nonfiction history of the franchise's National Basketball Association (NBA) championship wins is a slam dunk! Approachable, elementary-level text and dynamic photos explain the professional basketball team's records and memorable NBA championships. Vibrant, color-blocked layouts spotlight sensational players of different eras, such as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Giannis Antetokounmpo. An "About...

For kids in grade 3 and up who love the New York Knicks, this nonfiction history of the franchise's National Basketball Association (NBA) championship wins is a slam dunk! Approachable, elementary-level text and dynamic photos explain the professional basketball team's records and memorable NBA championships. Vibrant, color-blocked layouts spotlight sensational players of different eras, such as Patrick Ewing and Jalen Brunson. An "About the Team"...

For kids in grade 3 and up who love the Houston Rockets, this nonfiction history of the franchise's National Basketball Association (NBA) championship wins is a slam dunk! Approachable, elementary-level text and dynamic photos explain the professional basketball team's records and memorable NBA championships. Vibrant, color-blocked layouts spotlight sensational players of different eras, such as Hakeem Olajuwon and Jalen Green. An "About the Team"...

For kids in grade 3 and up who love the Oklahoma City Thunder, this nonfiction history of the franchise's National Basketball Association (NBA) championship win is a slam dunk! Approachable, elementary-level text and dynamic photos explain the professional basketball team's records and memorable NBA championship. Vibrant, color-blocked layouts spotlight sensational players of different eras, such as Gary Payton and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander. An "About...

"A richly layered protagonist, witty dialogue, and a superbly crafted plot with serpentine twists and a perfectly executed, jaw-dropping finale elevate The Blow-Up to the stratosphere of crime fiction." -Paul Levine, author of the bestselling Jake Lassiter legal thrillers Criminal defense attorney Caron Mooney's life is blown apart when her Hamptons home is destroyed in a gas explosion . . . and the naked bodies of her husband Jason and a woman identified...

"Elementary-level text and dynamic sports photos highlight the NBA championship wins of the Miami Heat, plus sensational players associated with the professional basketball team such as Jimmy Butler"-- Provided by publisher.

"Although Jim Bowie and Davy Crockett were more celebrated, Buck Barry did as much or more to tame the Old Southwest. During a long and useful life he was a professional soldier, stock farmer, sheriff, and member of the legislature. His memoirs are never dull, and no wonder. In 1845 young James Buckner Barry joined the newly formed Texas Rangers and for the next twenty years his life was one of unremitting activity and danger. These pages show him...

A miniature painting of a mermaid drawn in bat's blood is taking the art world by storm. Why was it adrift at sea in a bottle, a coded message etched in the glass? Who painted it and why? It is up to Larry Settlebottom, a sheltered museum curator, to decipher the riddle. His adventures take him to Mexico and beyond as he encounters modern-day pirates, corrupted oceanographers, and a band of romantic sea gypsies, all leading him to a remote island...

Who could have imagined that a pile of old nuts and bolts in a garden shed could have a life of their own? Well, prepare to be amazed as we follow the gravel path by the orchard fence, where young Morris Wainwright once searched for fossils among the polished stones, to an old garden shed with a green pitched roof. It's half hidden by moss and ivy and sheltered from the summer heat by overhanging apple boughs. The window looks onto a garden of tall...

After the medicine cat has a dark vision during an already dark and uncertain period for ShadowClan, Tigerheart considers leaving the clan for good in order to save it.