Young Stanley Yelnats finds himself at Camp Green Lake, where digging a hole a day keeps the warden at bay and "builds character". An ancient family curse still dogs Stanley and he's thrown headlong into the adventure of his life. Stanley and his campmates will have to forge fast friendships to unearth the mystery of what's really going on in the desert.

General relativity is similar to Newtonian gravitation except in the case of very dense objects such as collapsed stars. Learn why they are called black holes.

Explore the dark side of space in Out of this World, a new and exciting series for struggling readers. What are the four different types of black holes? What's inside a black hole? These and other fascinating questions are discussed in the Black Holes title using considerate text that is written at a higher maturity level with a lower reading level to engage struggling readers. A table of contents, glossary with simplified pronunciations, and index...

"Seventeen-year-old Aysel's hobby--planning her own death--take a new path when she meets a boy who has similar plan of his own"--

Going fishing to relax can be a real turn-off – when there's a body floating in the middle of it.The Moga Me Dende? stories feature the great differences in the Indio culture and so-called "modern city" civilization, and the enormous differences in the way the people think. People are fascinated by those differences, as indicated by reception of the Clint Faraday Mysteries.

Paul has just qualified as an English teacher and is now living abroad, ready to show the world who he truly is. He's ready to mould the pliant minds of the young, to impart his sage wisdom and to prepare them to face their future dreams.Sadly for Paul, it's not quite as easy as he thought it would be. He's about to discover that young people's minds aren't as pliant as he thought, he doesn't have any sage wisdom to impart and that your dreams can...

Welcome, Agent 359. This file is full of top-secret information about black holes. Learn the basics of how black holes form, their different sizes, and how they were found. Then, discover what scientists are learning about them now. What will you do with our new knowledge? Good luck and remember these are top secret space files!

Bullet Holes Once, Anjali Patel and Mikhail Grikov were soldiers on opposing sides of an intergalactic war. They met, fell in love and decided to go on the run together. Now Anjali and Mikhail are trying to eke out a living on the independent worlds of the galactic rim, while attempting to stay under the radar of those pursuing them. When a seemingly routine courier job turns out to be a trap, Anjali is hit by a so-called smart bullet, a Republican...

Science said it could not be, but there it was. And whoosh-look out-here it is again! Spaceship crews should be selected on the basis of their non-irritating qualities as individuals. No chronic complainers, no hypochondriacs, no bugs on cleanliness-particularly no one-man parties. I speak from bitter experience. Because on the first expedition to Mars, Hugh Allenby damned near drove us nuts with his puns.