New Releases by Kirsten Larsen

The popular Social Studies Connects series links history, geography, civics and economics to kids’ daily lives. Featuring stories with diverse characters who face situations young readers can relate to, these books support reading and social studies skills including researching, inferring, comparing, and communication. An activity to stimulate curiosity about the world is included in each book! Tara FINALLY saved enough money for the T-shirt kit—until she remembered the tax. What can she do? (Social Studies topic: Civics/Taxes)

It''s an unidentified flying object! And it''s streaking across the night sky. Billy and Kara just have to find out - is it really a visitor from outer space?

Horray! It''s Sharing Day! Come along with Dora and Boots as they head to Abuela''s house for a special Sharing Day lunch. How will they get there? Who will join them? What treats will they eat? Find out when you read along with Dora!

Lily has a talent for making things grow. So when she finds a mysterious seed in the middle of the woods, she plants it. But the seedling that comes up is not anything Lily expected. It stinks and it oozes sap.

"This report, from a VicHealth-funded study that created and projected three possible food supply scenarios to 2060, builds an evidence base for examining how cumulative changes in food systems can impact on the food that ends up on our tables". -- Publisher''s website.

This paper describes the emergence of distributed water systems, which means a highly networked and localised approach to water infrastructure and critical water services. These will need to respond to the unprecedented water crisis unfolding across southern Australia, driven by the compounding impacts of climate change, over use and a legacy of short sighted water policies.

Join Dora and Boots on their way to Abuela''s house for a special Sharing Day lunch. First they have to pick up the ingredients for their special dessert. Along the way, they learn how important and rewarding it is to share.

Dora and Boots find a baby crab that needs their help. Dora and Boots must free the baby crab from a net and help it find its mami! Join Dora and Boots for an exciting adventure on the beach! This Level 1 Ready-to-Read story features rebus icons.

On a school trip to Buzzard City, a deserted place left over from the Gold Rush days and described as a ghost town, classmates Max and Sarah look for real ghosts.

Retells the adventures of the fairies from Pixie Hollow, Peter Pan''s secret hideaway.

Dora wants to make a pumpkin pie with Abuela!.

It''s Sharing Day! Join Dora and Boots on their way to Abuela''s house for a special Sharing Day lunch. First they have to pick up ingredients for their special dessert. Along the way, they learn how important and rewarding it is to share.

Today''s computing environment is subject to increasing regulatory pressures and potentially malicious attacks. Regulatory compliance, security, and audit are in the daily headlines and growing more prominent.The security of the information to which you have been entrusted has never been more critical. The reality of compliance is too complex. Compliance demands that you work carefully to set up a strong, comprehensive set of policies and controls. That means controls that consider operational data, financial data, unstructured data, spreadsheets, e-mail, and business intelligence data. We have a responsibility to secure all business data and especially sensitive customer data. Security can be difficult to manage. IBM DB2 for z/OS already resides on one of the most secure platforms in the industry. IBM System z servers are routinely used by enterprises around the world to support their mission-critical applications. The mainframe''s strengths in security stem in part from its history of supporting sensitive data for large enterprises, resulting in security features being built into its design for many decades. It also benefits from a system-wide approach with security capabilities built into the hardware, operating systems, databases, key middleware and more. Its highly evolved layers and security management components give it a fundamental advantage over other systems.

Lily tiene el don de hacer que las cosas crezcan de manera que cuando un dia se encuentra con una rara semilla mientras camina por el bosque resuelve sembrarla inmediatamente. La fea planta que germina es un extrana sorpresa para todos pero lily aprecia todas las plantas y a esta en particular le guarda especial afecto. La verdad a Lily le tiene sin cuidado que la plantase realmente fea....

Tara''s sister pays the sales tax on the t-shirt kit Tara has been saving for, on the condition that Tara give her ten cents everytime she uses something that taxes pay for.

Dora and her friend Boots are looking for colored eggs. They use both Spanish and English words to describe the colors. Help Dora and Boots find the eggs by peeking under movable flaps.

Chicken Little is on a mission to live down that unfortunate "acorn incident"-the one when he shouted, "The sky is falling!" causing mass chaos and earning him the title of town fool. All Chicken Little wants now is to wipe that embarrassing episode from everyone''s memory, but the press just won''t leave him alone.Now readers can help Chicken Little go into hiding! Simply drag the magnetic wand over the plastic cover and drop the magnetic filings over our hero''s image to disguise him as a pirate, a punk rocker, a disco duck . . . anything so people will leave the poor little chicken alone!

Jay Jay, Tracy, and Herky decide to play a counting game. With time running out on her turn, Tracy is afraid she won''t be able to find twelve of something anywhere in Tarrytown!...

Jake is worried Jay Jay has become bored with their routine.

Jay Jay the Jet Plane and Herky the Helicopter play a game to teach Snuffy about opposites.