New Releases by Jerry West

Tout commence lorsque Peter attrape un gros poisson avec une étrange étiquette sur la queue. Ensuite, l’ami des enfants, Bobby Reed, disparaît mystérieusement alors qu’il parcourt une rivière en bateau. Aussitôt, la famille Hollister se lance à sa recherche. C’est parti pour une croisière passionnante ! Si vous êtes fan des Enfants Boxcar, vous allez adorer la série des Hollister, qui a déjà conquis plus de 16 millions de lecteurs dans le monde !

A letter arrives for the Happy Hollisters from Gram Hollister, but it''s written in braille, a special code used by blind people. When they decipher the message, they learn that Gram needs their help with some "midnight trolls" in Iceland.

The Hollisters travel to Italy to help their new friend find her Uncle Giovanni, a famous toymaker and puppeteer who has disappeared in Rome. The Happy Hollisters have adventures touring many famous places in Italy.

In the tangled roots of an old tree, Pete finds a rare coin marked with two mysterious clues, leading the children on an exciting treasure hunt that combines coin collecting with botany and forestry.

Pete Hollister volunteers to locate a merry-go-round for the Lincoln School fair. Disappointments abound when a gear for the apparatus is apparently lost and a vandal sets fire to the booths and decorations in attempt to ruin the event.

The Happy Hollisters head to Canada to visit their grandparents and end up joining the search for a missing dog trainer and some valuable Eskimo puppies.

The Happy Hollisters are invited to stay on a ranch in New Mexico and discover a map leading to the cave of ancient dollmakers, the long-lost buried secret of the mountain.

A mysterious Chinese message tucked inside a book about New York City tunnels leads the Happy Hollisters to Chinatown in search of a long-lost treasure. While Mr. Hollister works with a toy manufacturer to perfect a new invention, the rest of the family explores New York City and learns about the Chinese way of life in Manhattan.

Here is a Happy Hollister book with not one, but two exciting mysteries along with the fun and companionship that unite this lively family during Christmas.

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The Happy Hollisters and the Mystery at Missile Town (#19 in the Happy Hollisters series)A slender missile, fire streaming from its tail, rose majestically into the blue sky over the waters of Cape Kennedy. Suddenly it exploded into a thousand pieces, showering the ocean and beaches with debris. This was the first sight to greet the Hollisters on their arrival in Florida for a visit with their cousins, Sharon and Randy Davis. Anxious to help Uncle Walt, a rocket expert at Patrick Air Force Base, they join in the search for the rocket''s nose cone, which is lost among the debris. The payload lodged in the nose cone is a very special "treasure," for on it depends the success of future launchings.The holiday becomes an adventure when their new friend, Lady Rhesus, the space monkey, is stolen and they discover that her tracks lead to a fisherman''s beach shack. The secretive manner of the fisherman, plus a strange encounter with his friend, leads Pete to suspect that they are engaged in something more villainous than stealing a monkey. When he finds that their boat is equipped with a powerful radar device for deep-sea exploration, he is certain! From then on the Hollisters race against time to find the three-million-dollar payload first.This new story should be an excellent addition to the series, since it brings the Hollisters into the headline-making news of Cape Kennedy. First published in 1961, this charming mystery-adventure story, faithfully reproduced, is now available in paperback and eBook for the first time! Written for boys and girls between the ages of six and twelve, The Happy Hollisters are wholesome books, with an accent on humor and good, clean fun. Integrity always pays off and right wins over wrong. Parents, grandparents, and teachers love these books for their healthy celebration of life in simpler times. Kids are thrilled with the fast-paced action and will not want to put them down. The action-packed illustrations make the story - and the Hollister family - so vivid that the reader has a feeling of really sharing in on the adventures of this lovable and interesting family.

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The Happy Hollisters and the Scarecrow Mystery (#14 in the Happy Hollisters series) When Mr. Hollister''s sport and toy store, The Trading Post, is robbed, his main concern is for his invention, a new type of collapsible canoe. He is therefore surprised to discover that a Geiger counter and a couple of pickaxes are the only missing items. After putting the problem of the theft in the hands of the police, the family turns to the matter of testing the canoe. An interested buyer who owns a forest tract has offered his property to the Hollisters for this purpose. They plan to camp out in the forest and test the canoe on the lake and rapids within the boundaries of the property. All goes well until they come across a "talking" scarecrow blocking the road to their campsite and warning them to turn back because danger awaits them in the forest. The Hollisters refuse to take the warning seriously and continue to set up their camp. From this point on the strange and unusual events that beset them in the forest seem mysteriously connected with the theft at the store and a search for uranium. Another exciting adventure that will be welcomed by the hundreds of thousands of Happy Hollister fans. First published in 1957, this charming mystery-adventure story, faithfully reproduced, is now available in paperback and eBook for the first time! Written for boys and girls between the ages of six and twelve, The Happy Hollisters are wholesome books, with an accent on humor and good, clean fun. Integrity always pays off and right wins over wrong. Parents, grandparents, and teachers love these books for their healthy celebration of life in simpler times. Kids are thrilled with the fast-paced action and will not want to put them down. The action-packed illustrations make the story - and the Hollister family - so vivid that the reader has a feeling of really sharing in on the adventures of this lovable and interesting family.

La gran familia de los Hollister vuelve con sus entretenidas aventuras, en una nueva edición actualizada ilustrada por Pedro Rodríguez. Los Hollister esperan pasar un tranquilo día en el concurso de pesca del río Muskong... hasta que la desaparición de un niño convierte la excursión en una increíble aventura. ¿Cómo conseguirán volver a casa, si la niebla les impide ver más allá de su propia nariz?

The arrival of a crate of pineapples and an odd pet at the Hollister home in Shoreham is the first of many unusual events in this new and exciting adventure. The sender of the pineapples-Mrs. Villamil-is a girlhood friend of Mrs. Hollister''s and now lives in Puerto Rico with her Spanish husband, their son Carlos, and daughter Maya. The Villamils invite the Hollisters to their home at Lizard Cove for the children''s winter vacation. The trip turns out to be more than just a sight-seeing tour when Carlos shows the Hollister youngsters an old tower on the Villamil property where they discover a stone that proves to be one of the clues to a pirate''s treasure. Along with the search for the location of the treasure, and the sinister threat of two strange men who try to stop the Hollisters, there is the fun of learning new customs and a different language. Last, but not least, suspense runs high when the girls enter the contest for the choice of Pineapple Queen of Puerto Rico. Here is an exciting Hollister story, in this popular and fast-selling series, of interesting new places and thrilling mystery. First published in 1957, this charming mystery-adventure story, faithfully reproduced, is now available in paperback and eBook for the first time! Written for boys and girls between the ages of six and twelve, The Happy Hollisters are wholesome books, with an accent on humor and good, clean fun. Integrity always pays off and right wins over wrong. Parents, grandparents, and teachers love these books for their healthy celebration of life in simpler times. Kids are thrilled with the fast-paced action and will not want to put them down. The action-packed illustrations make the story - and the Hollister family - so vivid that the reader has a feeling of really sharing in on the adventures of this lovable and interesting family.

The Happy Hollisters at Pony Hill Farm (#11 in the Happy Hollisters series)This story introduces a mystery on almost the first page, when the Hollisters attend an auction sale at Stone Farm near Shoreham.When Mr. Stone died he had only one relative, his grandson, Graham. Graham had been informed that he was to have the one thing of value on the farm, known only as “mystery boy.” Unfortunately no one knew who or what “mystery boy” was. The Hollisters, therefore, were quite surprised to find that the hobbyhorse they purchased at the sale held the key to the identity of this strange bequest.This, however, is a minor mystery, for when the Hollisters visit Pony Hill Farm, a horse farm owned by cousins of Mrs. Hollister, Ruth and Charles Thomas, they all become concerned with a beautiful appaloosa pony that appears at the farm as if out of nowhere.The solution of this puzzle and that of the elusive Graham Stone, along with learning trick riding and entering the County Fair Horse Show, makes a new Hollister story of interesting and unusual adventure.First published in 1956, this charming mystery-adventure story, faithfully reproduced, is now available in paperback and eBook for the first time! Written for boys and girls between the ages of six and twelve, The Happy Hollisters are wholesome books, with an accent on humor and good, clean fun. Integrity always pays off and right wins over wrong. Parents, grandparents, and teachers love these books for their healthy celebration of life in simpler times. Kids are thrilled with the fast-paced action and will not want to put them down. The action-packed illustrations make the story – and the Hollister family – so vivid that the reader has a feeling of really sharing in on the adventures of this lovable and interesting family.

An overview of the extent to which resident and nonresident fathers are involved in their children''s schools and examines their influence on children''s school performance. Addresses: how fathers compare with mothers in their level of involvement; the increase or decrease of involvement as children grow older; the association between involvement in school and other parental behaviors at home in enhancing school success; whether fathers'' involvement is linked to measures of children''s school outcomes; the involvement of two parents as opposed to only one; and the extent of and factors that influence nonresident fathers'' involvement. Charts and graphs. Also includes a 37-page vol., " A Call to Commitment: Fathers'' Involvement in Children''s Learning."

This book covers all facets of MJ''s life through insight from his closest friends and intense rivals and through the works of the NBA''s most talented photographers.

The National Household Education Survey (NHES) collects data on the educational activities of the United States population. NHES is designed as a telephone survey of the noninstitutionalized population of the United States. The survey was fielded for the first time in 1991 and will be conducted annually beginning in 1993. Each survey will examine a different topic or topics related to education. This report presents findings from the 1991 NHES, which examined young children''s participation in nonparental care and early education programs. The first part of the report provides background information on the survey. The second part presents data on the relationship between preschoolers'' participation in nonparental care and early childhood education programs, and child characteristics, family characteristics, and maternal employment. The third part presents data on the relationship between the number of hours per week preschoolers spend in nonparental care and early education programs, and child characteristics, family socioeconomic characteristics, and maternal employment. Preschool children''s participation in home-based and center-based programs is discussed in the fourth part. The fifth part examines the relationship between children''s participation in the child care arrangement in which they spend the most time per week, and child characteristics, family characteristics, and maternal employment. The sixth part discusses characteristics of center-based programs, including group size and child-staff ratios. The report is summarized in the seventh part. A discussion of the survey methodology is included. (Contains 17 references.) (BC)