A fencing tournament turns deadly!

Can three young fencers thwart a plan to bring America to its knees?

Kevin Taylor, Rachel Felder, and Ben Chang are experts with a sword and can't wait to battle for medals at an upcoming fencing tournament at Nellis Air Force Base. They'll soon be battling, all right--but not for medals. Because when the three friends arrive at Nellis, they become unwilling pawns in a twisted plan to steal the most dangerous weapon ever made. A plan that somehow revolves around the tournament. Now, in a struggle for their very survival, they must find a way to stop the two brilliant arms dealers behind it all. But the arms dealers hold all the cards. And far more is at stake than just their lives...

The Prometheus Project: Trapped is a fast-paced science-fiction adventure novel for children 9-13, written to be mentally engaging and highly entertaining to boys and girls alike. Accurate science is presented in the book to further the plot, to stimulate interest in science and technology, and above all else, to fascinate and delight. The book is filled with humor, discovery, adventure, and suspense, and since many chapters end in cliffhangers, the reader will find it difficult to put down.

The Prometheus Project: Captured, is also crammed with cliffhangers, nonstop action, and unexpected twists and turns; this novel introduces scientific topics--sound and hearing, ultrasonic sound, experimental methodologies, flash powder, human memory, and superconductivity--to children while engaging their imaginations.

A third book, The Prometheus Project: Stranded, continues the adventure.

Jane is the only one who notices all the strange things happening: like a squirrel packing a suitcase, a blind man who can drive, and that adults, including her parents, appear to be hypnotized by technology.

When Jane is attacked by a man with raven-black wings, she escapes with her younger brother to a magical land at the center of the world called Hotland. With the help of a cat-person called Gaius and a dragon named Finn, Jane learns that she is the only one who can defeat an evil King bent on destroying civilization.

It's Violet's junior year at the Westfield School. She thought she'd be focusing on getting straight As, editing the lit mag, and figuring out how to talk to boys without choking on her own saliva. Instead, she's just trying to hold it together in the face of cutthroat academics, her crush's new girlfriend, and the sense that things are going irreversibly wrong with her best friend, Katie.

When Katie starts making choices that Violet can't even begin to fathom, Violet has no idea how to set things right between them. Westfield girls are trained for success--but how can Violet keep her junior year from being one huge epic failure?

This is the first book to introduce young people, ages 10 to 100, to author and activist Jane Jacobs. Her now-classic 1961 book helped people value their cities, called for an end to the wrecking ball of "urban renewal," and ultimately changed the world. In words, vintage photos, and illustrations, Genius of Common Sense follows Jacobs from her childhood in Scranton, Pennsylvania, through her groundbreaking work, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, and her involvement in battles to save the very New York City neighborhoods she wrote about.

This young-adult book serves as a valuable introduction for readers of all ages to the life and work of Jane Jacobs. Even those familiar with this remarkable woman will find information and images never published before.

These six study guides in the William and Mary Navigator collection can be used by teachers and students in schools. The series includes the following novels:

From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg
The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman
Sounder by William H. Armstrong
A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park
Yolanda's Genius by Carol Fenner
The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman

Following the death of an old bird, a little bird hears beautiful music. The little bird asks, "Where does that beautiful music come from?" And through the answer the little bird learns how each generation leaves something of itself behind for the generations that follow.

This William and Mary Navigator is a study guide for middle-school students who enjoy reading Katherine Paterson's novel, Jacob Have I Loved.

A Child's Book of Blessings and Prayers is a rich treasury of graces, poems, prayers, and blessings drawn from around the world. Selections have been specially chosen to address the spiritual needs of children and to encourage giving, service, and gratitude. Includes words to bless the morning, share at bedtime, honor a birthday, even give thanks for a friend next-door. Each selection is surrounded by engaging and child-friendly, full-color illustrations. This diverse collection, with prayers from Hindu, Sioux, Islamic, Jewish, Christian, and Unitarian Universalist traditions, to name only a few, highlights the common threads that can unite people of all faiths. Beautifully illustrated in full color. Ages 4 and up.

With all of the pressure and distractions of modern student life, young athletes really have to focus their energy if they want to achieve their goals as student-athletes. Two-time softball Olympic gold medalist Michele Smith teams up with Lawrence Hsieh to talk directly to student-athletes in fourth through ninth grades and beyond to help them develop the leadership, practice, and intangible skills necessary to become the best student-athletes and softball players that they can be. Includes chapters on leadership, opportunity, teamwork, proactive practice, perseverance, exercise and conditioning, community service, and much more.