Best Selling Books by Shelley Tanaka

An overview of global warming.

Seven-year-old Kai-ming Wong is wide-eyed over the big North American city where he and his parents have gone to live. It is a far cry from the hills and countryside of South China, the only home Kai-ming has ever known. The glass towers and shiny cars are as foreign to the boy as the English spoken by the children playing in the streets. So Kai-ming stays inside his house while his parents search for work.

Probes the tragic and mysterious fate of Sir John Franklin''s failed expedition to find the Northwest Passage in 1845.

Describes the day Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, using eyewitness accounts to tell the true story.

Imagine breaking into an ancient tomb, marked with the seal of an Egyptian king who died three thousand years ago. A treasure trove of precious artifacts lies waiting in the dark -- but we now realize that even more valuable is the mummy inside. Shelley Tanaka takes us back in time to the lives of the people whose bodies were preserved as mummies. Why were the bodies so carefully preserved? What can we learn about life thousands of years ago from the mummified bodies? How can knowledge about ancient peoples help us to better understand ourselves? From the rituals for preserving human bodies to the most up-to-date technology used to study the mummies, this fascinating book provides intriguing details and a personal look at the livesof the people whose remains have survived the millennia. For anyone who has ever shivered at stories of the mummy''s curse, or been dazzled by stories of great cultures of long ago, this book is as essential as it is enlightening.

Describes the years of training and hard work involved in becoming a ballet dancer and the dedication and expertise needed to dance the lead roles in famous ballets such as Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake.

Provides a short history of the siege of the Alamo.

Uses the discovery of the temple in Mexico City, what was once the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan, to introduce the story of the Spanish conquest of Moctezuma and his empire in the sixteenth century.

More than 50 creative play activities designed for children under the age of five.

Stunning, full-color illustrations, detailed diagrams of the ship''s interior, and rare photographs convey a wealth of information to complement this breathtaking true story.

By "reading" the bones of people killed in the town of Herculaneum by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, an anthropologist reconstructs their lives.

The story of Bill Lishman, who raised a flock of Canada geese and taught them to migrate south for the winter. Grades 2-4.

Describes the Allied landing on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944, from the point of view of four soldiers who were there.

Discusses the work of paleontologists who have found dinosaur bones and fossils in Canada, Argentina, and the Gobi Desert.

Uses a fictionalized account of the life of the steward of an important estate to describe the ancient Italian city of Pompeii and what happened to it during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D.

Eleven-year-old Anne Shirley has never known a real home. Since her parents died when she was three months old, she has grown up in foster homes and in an orphanage. So when she is sent to live with Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert at Green Gables farm on Prince Edward Island, she thinks she''s finally found a home. Green Gables is the most beautiful place she''s ever seen, and best of all, this time she''s going to be adopted. But a spirited redheaded chatterbox with a vivid imagination and a quick temper is the last thing the Cuthberts were expecting, and now Anne isn''t sure they''re going to keep her. All she''s ever wanted is to belong somewhere, and she dreams of calling herself Anne of Green Gables. But will her dreams come true?