New Releases by Megan Stine

Presents a variety of activities, experiments, and simple tricks that explore principles of electricity, physics, biology, and more.

Provides instructions for a variety of experiments and activities involving food, including the making of cheese, the growing of leaves from cut vegetables, and the testing of different foods for their fat content.

Eleven-year-old Cam Ross accidentally awakens the mummy of a murdered Egyptian boy--and now the mummy wants to murder Cam!

When Laura Ingalls Wilder was a little girl in the late 1800''s, her family moved nine times in three years. The Wilders faced great hardships on the prairie. The crops they planted were destroyed by grasshoppers. Brutal snowstorms brought them close to starvation. But for Laura, who was born with her father''s pioneer spirit, home wasn''t a house--it was being with Ma, Pa, Mary, and baby Carrie. At the age of 65 she put pen to paper and wrote about memories. Through hard work and the help of her daughter, Rose, she became a successful author. The wonderful books she left behind tell the story of a rich life in the face of good times and bad.

When bad boy Dylan has a motorcycle accident that lands him in the hospital, it''s love-struck Courtney who nurses him back to health. But once again Brooke stirs up trouble when she finds a note in Dylan''s room that says Your son misses you. Soon the rumors are flying--is Dylan a dad?

Egypt 1908: Nine-year-old Indy gets introduced to archaeology by Lawrence of Arabia, but the thrill is gone when the guard of a newly opened tomb is murdered.

A biography of the writer whose pioneer life on the American prairie became the basis for her "Little House" books.

The pioneer girl who became the writer comes to life in this biography.

Elliot doubts that he will survive the fifth grade, because the obnoxious class bully has selected him as his own special victim.

Profiles superheroes that have appeared in Marvel comic books, including Spiderman, Hulk, and Storm.

Suggests family vacation trips to baseball spring training, halls of fame, dude ranches, wilderness areas, and ski resorts, and shares advice on traveling with children

Lively and imaginative, this popular series continues to grow. Boys 8 to 10 will want to continue to follow the adventures of Jeffrey, his pals, and his ghostly friend Max, brimming with suspense, mystery, humor, and line drawings that add to the fun.

Jeffrey and his class are excited about a four-day trip to Camp Duck Down, when Max, the ghost, brags about meeting Bigfoot and dares Jeffrey to hunt the creature down.

Jeffrey Becker is not sure he likes being a big brother, especially if it means giving up the big birthday party he wanted, but Max, the ghost, has his own plans.

Fifth-grader Andrew, good in music but poor in sports, gets a chance to prove himself in both when he is asked to direct his own play as a school production and to chose a sport for a mini-Olympics competition.

The seventeen-year-old Three Investigators become involved in tracking down a basketball scandal when Pete receives a corrupt offer from a local college.

Discusses choosing a bike, equipment, accessories, instructions for riding, and customizing.

The seventeen-year-old Investigators try to locate a film star kidnapped during the filming of a horror movie.

Max doesn''t want to be promoted, he says fourth grade isn''t "cool."

Max doesn''t want to be promoted, he says fourth grade isn''t "cool."

Susan inadvertantly gets on a plane filled with superheroes on vation.

Jeffrey takes his father''s baseball card collection to school and suddenly they are disappearing, Is Max in on the caper?

What’s Christmas without Max? Jeffrey Becker is looking forward to the greatest Christmas ever. Nothing beats spending the holidays with his best friend, Max. Especially when Max happens to be a mischief-loving 1950s ghost. But before vacation begins, Jeffrey and Max argue, and Max disappears—maybe for good! To make things worse, it looks like Jeffrey will have to spend Christmas with—yuck!—his obnoxious cousins Jonathan and Wendy. Why bother to celebrate at all? Jeffrey needs his ghostly friend to come back, but there’s no sign of the stubborn Max. Will Max ever return?

Jeffrey loves to tell a good story, but it actually turns out that his new best friend is a mischief-loving ghost from the 1950s named Max.

Twenty science activities to be used by parents and teachers with children as supplements to classroom science curricula.