Most Popular Books by Shelley Tanaka

An overview of global warming.

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?

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

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.

Describes the ancient Egyptian practice of preserving the dead through the process of mummification and explains what scientists have learned from unwrapping and examining mummies.

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.

Here are the amazing stories of the dinosaurs that have been found in the world''s greatest dinosaur "graveyards" -- from the Gobi Desert in Mongolia and the badlands of Alberta, Canada, to the desolate Valley of the Moon in Argentina. Find out how these astonishing creatures lived and how they died. Book jacket.

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.

Describes pollution and environmental issues, with particular regard to the life and habitat of birds.

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.