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Isaac Newton and Physics for Kids: His Life and Ideas with 21 Activities (For Kids series)

Featuring 21 hands-on projects that explore the scientific concepts Isaac Newton developed, this illuminating guide paints a rich portrait of the brilliant and complex man and provides young readers with a hands-on understanding of astronomy, physics, and mathematics. The activity-packed resource allows children to experiment with swinging pendulums, build a simple waterwheel, create a 17th-century plague mask, track the phases of the moon, bake an "apple pye in a coffin," and test Newton's three laws of motion using coins, a skateboard, and a model boat they construct themselves. A time line, excerpts from Newton's own writings, online resources, and a reading list for further exploration ensure that kids will gravitate to this unique activity book.

Isabel Feeney, Star Reporter

It&’s 1920s Chicago—the guns-and-gangster era of Al Capone—and it&’s unusual for a girl to be selling the Tribune on the street corner. But ten-year-old Isabel Feeney is unusual . . . unusually obsessed with being a news reporter. She can&’t believe her luck when she stumbles not only into a real-live murder scene, but also into her hero, the famous journalist Maude Collier. The story of how the smart, curious, loyal Isabel fights to defend the honor of her accused friend and latches on to the murder case like a dog on a pant leg makes for a winning, thoroughly entertaining middle grade mystery.

Isabel in Bloom

A girl discovers a connection between her home in the Philippines and her new home in the U.S. through a special garden in this middle grade novel that celebrates nourishment and growth.Twelve-year-old Isabel is the new kid in her San Francisco middle school. It&’s the first time in many years that she&’ll be living with her mother again. Mama's job in the US allowed Isabel and her grandparents to live more comfortably in the Philippines, but now Isabel doesn't really know her own mother anymore.Making new friends in a new city, a new country, is hard, but joining the gardening and cooking club at school means Isabel will begin to find her way, and maybe she too, will begin to bloom. In this beautifully rendered novel-in-verse, Mae Respicio explores how growth can take many forms, offering both the challenges and joy of new beginnings.

Isabel of the Whales

Eleven-year-old Isabel is a "plain old" girl living in Provincetown, Massachusetts, who believes that she is destined to accomplish something special. When her fifth-grade class goes on a whale-watch field trip, something amazing happens: Dozens of different species of whales surround the boat, bumping the deck and sending Isabel flying into the ocean. Isabel is shocked to hear the whales speaking to her--she is a mermaid, they tell her, a "Chosen One" who has the ability to turn from a human into a whale and back again. She is destined to live among the whales long enough to learn their ways, and teach them about the human world. Living among her pod is fun, at first, but Isabel has an important mission. She will change the whales' future forever, and learn a lot about herself in the process.From the Hardcover edition.

Isabel y Su Cama Nueva

Isabel y su gato coco

Brand new book of Isabel series. This is a story of a young girl and her cat Coco. After she bathes the cat, he disappears for a day and Isabel sets out to look for him. She and the cat reunite after looking for him all over. Isabel is a happy girl because she loves her Coco.

Isabel's Car Wash

The Nelly Longhair doll, the object of Isabel's desire, is on sale at Murphy's Toys for ten dollars. But Isabel has only fifty cents. Isabel decides to start a car wash business; she's sure she can make money. But at the hardware store she learns that her supplies will cost five dollars! She thinks long and hard and comes up with a plan. If five of her friends will give her one dollar each, she'll have enough. She tells her friends she'll work very hard and believes she'll be able to pay them back, plus extra. Her friends agree. Will Isabel be able pay them back and have enough left over for the Nelly doll? This clever story is sure to get kids thinking about how people invest in businesses. The book includes a note on investing in a business and buying stocks. Sheila Bair also wrote Rock, Brock, and the Savings Shock. Judy Stead's brightly colored artwork complements the story.

Isabel's Day (Into Reading, Level D #50)

NIMAC-sourced textbook

Isabel's House of Butterflies

Eight-year-old Isabel hopes that her plan will spare her favorite tree, keep the butterflies coming, and provide an income for her poor family in Mexico.

Isabel's Story: From Guatemala To Georgia

A family from Guatemala finds peace and a new life in Georgia. Spanning different regions, time periods, and ethnic groups, this series of fictional accounts help students explore the American immigrant experience. Readers are introduced to some of the reasons why people move to a new land, and they experience the triumphs and tragedies of families who risked the journey to America.

Isabel's Texas Two-Step

Isabel's sister Elena Maria is turning fifteen, and the Martinez family is planning her quinceañera -- at Uncle Hector's ranch in San Antonio!

Isabel's War

In a stunning new novel completed just before her death in 2013, award-winning author Lila Perl introduces us to Isabel Brandt, a French-phrase-dropping twelve-year-old New Yorker who's more interested in boys and bobbing her nose than the distant war across the Pacific--the one her parents keep reminding her to care more about. Things change when Helga, the beautiful niece of her parent's best friends, comes to live with Isabel and her family. Helga is everything Isabel's not--cool, blonde, and vaguely aloof. She's also a German war refugee, with a past that gives a growing Isabel something more important to think about than boys and her own looks. Set in the Bronx during World War II, Isabel's War is a beautiful evocation of New York in the 1940s and of a girl's growing awareness of the world around her.Lila Perl, the daughter of Russian immigrants fleeing anti-Semitism, published over sixty volumes of fiction and nonfiction for young readers during her long and distinguished career. In addition to the beloved Fat Glenda series, Perl twice received American Library Association Notable awards for nonfiction and was a recipient of the Sidney Taylor Award for Four Perfect Pebbles: A Holocaust Story. She died in 2013 at the age of ninety-two. Isabel's War and its completed sequel, Lilli's Quest, were her final works.

Isabel: Jewel of Castilla (The Royal Diaries)

While waiting anxiously for others to choose a husband for her, Isabel, the future Queen of Spain, keeps a diary account of her life as a member of the royal family

Isabel: Taking Wing (Girls Of Many Lands)

In 1592, twelve-year-old Isabel dreams of adventure and finds it, not only on her journey from her London home to her aunt's manor house in Northamptonshire, but also through the healing arts her aunt teaches her.

Isabella (Nine Months Ser. #4)

Isabella and Carlos live in St. Louis, Missouri. While finishing their senior year in high school, they decide to have a baby together and get married. When Carlos joins the military and tragedy strikes, Isabella is devastated. A year later, she is reunited with Pete, a boy she thinks is het second chance at love. But he could have a dark side that puts Isabella and her baby's safety in danger.

Isabella for Real

When Isabella Antonelli becomes an overnight YouTube sensation in a documentary detailing her REAL, non-royal Italian American family, she needs to figure out a way to tell everyone at her fancy new school the truth about her family--or come up with some better lies. Brimming with offbeat humor, Isabella for Real sets the scene for an eccentric, multi-generational family drama that will have readers laughing out loud and giving Isabella's performance a standing ovation.

Isabella the Air Fairy: The Green Fairies Book 2 (Rainbow Magic #2)

Kirsty and Rachel are delighted to meet Isabella - she's in the human world to help make the air clean again. They soon meet a friendly butterfly who needs a new home... But, with a naughty goblin nearby, will they be able to help her...?

Isabella's Above-Ground Pool

"I won't share 'cuz it's not fair!" is nine-year-old IsabellaSpeedwalker-Juarez's motto. It's all because she's stuck in a roomwith her toddler brother, Dozer. Mom says Izzy has to adapt toGranny's tiny trailer, where they've just moved because moneyis tight and Mom is worried about losing her job at the gumfactory. Izzy knows what will make everything better – anabove-ground pool. She'll swim in it for hours, and she won'tshare it with anyone, not even her new classmates or her friendDeborah Nibblebitz-Fifer. With help from Zachary O'Toole, theneighborhood handyman – and from Deborah – Izzy plans tohold a car wash to raise money. But when things finally startto go her way, a tornado damages the neighborhood, and Izzybegins to rethink her motto.Sparkling illustrations and a large dose of warmhearted humormake Isabella's dilemma – and change of heart – easilyidentifiable to young readers everywhere.

Isabella's Grandma

Isabella’s parents wondered how they were going to tell her that grandma has been diagnosed with cancer. Join Isabella as she learns what cancer is in a gentle way, and how treatment can cause physical changes in this educational, heartfelt, beautifully illustrated picture book aimed at children aged 3-8 years.

Isabella's Spring Break Crush

A trip to grandma's gets a lot more interesting when a cute crush is involved!Isabella isn't exactly thrilled to be spending spring break with her twin brother and their sunscreen-obsessed, worrywart grandma in Florida. That is, until Grandma Miriam actually turns out to be a lot more fun when Mom isn't around--she sings along in the car, buys them ice cream, and has tons of cool day trips planned for the three of them. But when Grandma Miriam introduces Isabella to her friend's gorgeous grandson, Ryan, all thoughts of day trips with her grandma and brother go out the window. Will Isabella be able to get Ryan alone before spring break is over? And if she does, what then?

Isabelle Day Refuses to Die of a Broken Heart

In Milwaukee, Isabelle Day had a house. And she had a father. This year, on Halloween, she has half of a house in Minneapolis, a mother at least as sad as she is, and a loss that&’s too hard to think—let alone talk—about. It&’s the Midwest in the early 1960s, and dads just don&’t die . . . like that. Hovering over Isabelle&’s new world are the duplex&’s too-attentive landladies, Miss Flora (&“a lovely dried flower&”) and her sister Miss Dora (&“grim as roadkill&”), who dwell in a sea of memories and doilies; the gleefully demonic Sister Mary Mercy, who rules a school awash in cigarette smoke; and classmates steady Margaret and edgy Grace, who hold out some hope of friendship. As Isabelle&’s first tentative steps carry her through unfamiliar territory—classroom debacles and misadventures at home and beyond, time trapped in a storm-tossed cemetery and investigating an inhospitable hospital—she begins to discover that, when it comes to pain and loss, she might actually be in good company. In light of the elderly sisters&’ lives, Grace and Margaret&’s friendship, and her father&’s memory, she just might find the heart and humor to save herself. With characteristic sensitivity and wit, Jane St. Anthony reveals how a girl&’s life clouded with grief can also hold a world of promise.

Isabelle Shows Her Stuff: The Isabelle Series, Book Two (Isabelle #2)

The irrepressible Isabelle is back, teaching new friends old tricks No one warned the new kid on the block, third grader Guy Gibbs, to watch out for a spirited, newspaper-delivering fifth grader named Isabelle. But as he helps the movers get his family's piano through the front door, there she is: the original itch herself. Before long, Isabelle makes Guy her protégé. Suddenly she's introducing him to the thrills of fighting with your best friend and wearing your mother's pantyhose while robbing a bank. Isabelle's energy is infectious, and Guy is having fun. But soon, stirring up trouble starts to feel like more effort than it's worth, and Guy must decide between being a tough kid and being himself. Isabelle Shows Her Stuff, the second in Constance C. Greene's boisterous Isabelle series, is an entertaining and lively follow-up tale for the itch's young fans.

Isabelle and Little Orphan Frannie: The Isabelle Series, Book Three (Isabelle #3)

It's up to Isabelle, Guy, and Herbie to show Little "Norphan" Frannie why reading is so much fun Meet Frannie, a "norphan. " It's what Frannie says you call a kid who lost her daddy and then her mommy (when mom left to go find a new dad). Frannie is staying with her "aunt," a waitress at the local café who brings home leftover pancakes for dinner. When Isabelle the irrepressible itch discovers that Frannie can't read, she gets right to work. Reading is her favorite thing in the world, and she's pulling out all the stops to help her new friend learn how to do it. With familiar characters like Guy and Herbie as well as the perennial antagonist Mary Eliza along for Isabelle's continued adventures, Isabelle and Little Orphan Frannie, the third book in Constance C. Greene's Isabelle series, offers a fun, engaging read for Isabelle's young fans.

Isabelle in the City: Girl of the Year 2014) (Girl of the Year)

Isabelle and her sister, Jade, are off to New York City for a summer ballet program. It feels like a dream come true - until Isabelle meets her Japanese roommate, Miki, who doesn't seem to want to spend any time with her. When Isabelle realizes that Miki has trouble speaking English, she searches for a way to bridge the gap between them. Can the two girls from different cultures find a way to communicate through their shared love of dance?

Isabelle the Itch: The Isabelle Series, Book One (Isabelle #1)

Meet Isabelle, the original itch Isabelle is an itch. She can't sit still and is always jumping from one thing to another. Being an itch means that she plans, jokes, plots, and schemes her way through life. Isabelle fights her best friend, Herbie, every day after school, and she's probably the fastest girl in her class, especially now that she has her new Adidas sneakers. Isabelle's dad says she could climb a mountain if she could just focus on one thing at a time. But why do one thing when you could do ten? When her older brother needs a substitute for his morning paper route, Isabelle has a chance to prove to everyone, especially herself, that she can channel her energy into something useful. In this, the first in Constance C. Greene's rollicking Isabelle series, readers will discover that a little determination can make all the difference.