New Releases by Judith St. George

Steppie''s life turns upside down when her mother converts their basement into a pool hall for troubled teenagers and then decides to enter the national pool players'' championship herself.

A biography of the sculptor who devoted the last fourteen years of his life to the carving of the four presidents'' heads on the face of Mount Rushmore.

Keiko Tanaka offers an analysis of the linguistic devices that are used in advertisements, looking at the stratagems which advertisers employ to gain and retain the attention of their audience. Using Relevance Theory as a framework, she sets out the key aspects, then applies these to the language of written advertising in Britain and Japan. Particular emphasis is placed on "covert communication" and puns and metaphors, and the book contains a unique chapter on images of women in Japanese advertising. It is fully illustrated throughout with recent contrastive advertisements drawn from the two countries.

Text and contemporary illustrations describe the seemingly impossible feat of building a bridge over the East River during the nineteenth century.

In yet another new school, a shy 15-year-old has difficulty adjusting to her first boarding school, especially since the tennis team is hostile toward her.

During daily visits to Kew Gardens a ten-year-old American girl finds herself transported back to Kew Palace in 1805 where she meets Princess Charlotte Augusta, future queen of England.

Recounts the voyage in 1811 of the New Orleans, the first steamboat to travel down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, a trip fraught with dangers including North America''s most violent earthquake.

When counterfeit money begins to circulate in her small New Jersey town and her father''s parish seems to be implicated, 12-year-old Ruth determines to help him by tracking down the source of the money.

A young girl begins to wonder if a Chinook companion is causing or alleviating hardships a group of pioneers experiences on its way to Oregon.

Mary Grace and her imaginary friend Nellie plan to find out who has been smashing all the jack-o''-lanterns the week before Halloween.

Eleven-year-old Cornelius Van Loon is destined to be a fisherman but is terrified of the water. The collision of two steamboats on the Hudson River tests his courage.

When his father is hospitalized after a serious accident, fifteen-year-old Jay finds himself on his own in a remote Oregon lodge whose owner is threatened by mysterious enemies.

What seems a harmless enough trip to the family''s ancestral home on a Maine island turns into something much more dangerous for thirteen-year-old Kim.

Eight-year-old Hannah meets with her mother''s disapproval when she wants to wear the new women''s garment, bloomers, which cause a mild sensation when they are introduced in the mid-nineteenth century.

What seems a harmless enough trip to the family''s ancestral home on a Maine island turns into something much more dangerous for thirteen-year-old Kim.

When Josie loses her job due to gossip, she realizes that the woman''s rights convention could help her start a new life.

Presidential trivia & facts, children level with adult humor.