New Releases by Sydelle Kramer

Called the "Great Pathfinder", Daniel Boone is most famous for opening up the West to settlers through Kentucky. A symbol of America''s pioneering spirit Boone was a skilled outdoorsman and an avid reader although he never attended school. Sydelle Kramer skillfully recounts Boone''s many adventures such as the day he rescued his own daughter from kidnappers.

Text and photographs provide an introduction to submarines.

Kramer features brief profiles of such hard-hitting baseball players as Honus Wagner, Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Ted Williams, and Hank Aaron. Full-color illustrations.

Did you know Bobby Orr was once considered too small to play hockey? Or that Jacques Plante was so poor as a kid, he had to learn how to knit? Hockey''s greatest players were kids once too! This exciting Step into Reading/reg/ book takes a look at the greatest players--from Gordie Howe to Bobby Hull to Wayne Gretzky--in one of the fastest, roughest, and most popular professional sports--ice hockey.

A biography of the youngest player, and the first person of color, ever to win the Masters Golf Tournament.

Zack and his father go to Hawaii where Zack has an unfortunate encounter with an angry volcano goddess.

Describes how and why such men as Bill Russell, Wilt Chamberlain, and Larry Bird became great basketball players.

Profiles four star players in the National Football League: Deion Sander, Barry Sanders, Jerry Rice and Troy Aikman.

Since the 1960s, recurring cycles of political activism over youth crime have motivated efforts to remove adolescents from the juvenile court. Periodic surges of crime—youth violence in the 1970s, the spread of gangs in the 1980s, and more recently, epidemic gun violence and drug-related crime—have spurred laws and policies aimed at narrowing the reach of the juvenile court. Despite declining juvenile crime rates, every state in the country has increased the number of youths tried and punished as adults. Research in this area has not kept pace with these legislative developments. There has never been a detailed, sociolegal analytic book devoted to this topic. In this important collection, researchers discuss policy, substantive procedural and empirical dimensions of waivers, and where the boundaries of the courts lie. Part 1 provides an overview of the origins and development of law and contemporary policy on the jurisdiction of adolescents. Part 2 examines the effects of jurisdictional shifts. Part 3 offers valuable insight into the developmental and psychological aspects of current and future reforms. Contributors: Donna Bishop, Richard Bonnie, M. A. Bortner, Elizabeth Cauffman, Linda Frost Clausel, Robert O. Dawson, Jeffrey Fagan, Barry Feld, Charles Frazier, Thomas Grisso, Darnell Hawkins, James C. Howell, Akiva Liberman, Richard Redding, Simon Singer, Laurence Steinberg, David Tanenhaus, Marjorie Zatz, and Franklin E. Zimring

Presents brief sketches of four top female figure skaters: Kristi Yamaguchi, Nancy Kerrigan, Oksana Baiul, and Michelle Kwan.

Follows a wagon trail to California in 1848 as hundreds of pioneers endure great hardships while traveling 2,000 miles of wilderness.

This book is a biography of Ty Cobb, baseball''s first superstar.

Describes the lives of noted basketball players David Robinson, Charles Barkley, Hakeem Olajuwon, and Shaquille O''Neal.

An account of Alaska''s grueling, 1200-mile Iditarod dog sled race, recently won by a woman for the first time.