New Releases by Sue Corbett

A comprehensive guide to Williamsburg, Virginia and the Historic Triangle, including Jamestown and Yorktown. Includes information on restaurants, attractions, activities, nightlife, and accommodations, plus advice on how to live and thrive in the area--from recreation to relocation.

This biography presents the life details of children''s book author Kate DiCamillo, while exploring her creative process as a writer and the cultural impact of her work. This book shares what books Kate likes to read, as well as excerpts from her own works. Interviews include family and friends.

Gary Paulsen is an American writer of young adult literature who has won the Margaret Edwards Award for his lifetime contribution in writing for teens. A prolific writer, he is the celebrated author of more than 200 books. This thoughtful biography exposes his early encouragements through interviews with the author and his family. Readers are given a peak into his professional influences while his greatest artistic inspirations are revealed.

Jeff Kinney is best known for his series, The Diary of a Wimpy Kid. He is an American children�s book author, game designer, cartoonist, producer, actor, and movie director. This detailed biography about this widely celebrated author and illustrator reveals the cultural impact of his work. Readers will experience how this fascinating artist was drawn to his profession through this notable personal review of Kinney�s life.

Rick Riordan is an American novelist whose works have been translated into 37 languages. He has won numerous awards including several Children�s Choice Book Awards and the Mark Twain Award. This book is a celebration of the author and provides interviews with Riordan, his family, and colleagues. Excerpts from his popular works are included along with a list of Riordan�s professional influences. In this book, readers will experience what it was like for this author to go from former English teacher, to a famous author whose books have sold more than 30 million copies in the U.S.

Readers will find out how their favorite authors became great writers in Spotlight on Children''s Authors. From Jeff Kinney''s hilarious Diary of a Wimpy Kid to Rick Riordan''s mythical Percy Jackson and the Olympians to the Kate DiCamillo''s classic Because of Winn-Dixie, students hear from the writers themselves how they keep their writing fresh and focused. Each book contains: Interview with the author, family, and colleagues, excerpts from popular works, list of books & what the author likes to read, and complete list of books written by author. Common Core connections: Explores authors'' point of view and purpose, identifies themes, and highlights context behind fictional treatment.

The inspiring story of the 2012 National League Cy Young Award Winner Adapted for young readers from his New York Times bestselling memoir Wherever I Wind Up, this is the inspiring story of how knuckleballer R. A. Dickey became one of the game’s best pitchers. He had humble beginnings, and as a child kept a terrible secret. But at a local prep school, coaches saw talent in him and fostered his skills as a player. Dickey went on to pitch in the Olympics while at the University of Tennessee, but his Major League hopes took a downturn when an X-ray revealed a major problem with his throwing arm. It would seem his future in baseball was over before it even began. But R.A. knew better. Through faith, hope, and determination, he achieved his dreams and made it into the major leagues. Now, he’s one of the most respected pitchers in the game, a Cy Young Award winner, and he''s changed the way people view the knuckleball – and himself. An inspiring true story about beating the odds, R.A. is proof that with hard work and devotion, anyone can overcome whatever life throws at them.

This introductory book presents a comprehensive outline of spine surgery that will provide operating room personnel, spine fellows, spine residents, and other multidisciplinary team members with a firm understanding of the general science concepts, equipment, and key procedures in spinal patient care. Clearly presented figures, illustrations, and photographs illuminate procedural techniques at preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative stages of treatment.

For more than twenty years, the Insiders'' Guide series has remained the essential source for in-depth travel and relocation information. Written by locals and true insiders, each guide is packed with useful tips on places to stay, restaurants, events, attractions, fun things to do with the kids, nightlife, parks and recreation, real estate, education and childcare, retirement information, local history, and much more - as well as a comprehensive index and special sections on relocation.

Big Heart + Big Brain = Funny, Feel Good Fiction! Wil?s sidearm throw can land a paper on your porch from twenty yards out. But he doesn?t know if he?ll be able to put his unusual talent to use because the big newspaper company has canceled delivery to Wil?s small town. Well, that was the paper?s first mistake. Underestimating Wil was the second. With physics, his clueless brother, and a neighbor girl on his side, Wil fights to save his route. Along the way he just might unravel a carnival mystery, expose a con artist, rescue his little town, and become a big hero. Sue Corbett?s hilarious dialogue, nonstop action, and one-of-a-kind family story herald a rising star of middle-grade fiction.

William writes a letter home each of the twelve days he spends exploring Virginia at Christmastime, as his cousin Madison shows him everything from a cardinal in a dogwood tree to eight bluegrass fiddlers fiddling to twelve Eastern Shore plovers looping. Includes facts about Virginia.

Angry with his mother for having too little time for him, eleven-year-old Felix takes advantage of an opportunity to become bat boy for a minor league baseball team, hoping to someday be like his father, a famous Cuban outfielder. Jr Lib Guild. Reprint.

In this captivating novel, wife and mother of three Bernadette McBride makes a wish she never expects to have granted—to be young again. When she awakens—transformed into a twelveyear- old—on what should be the morning of her fortieth birthday, she is at first jubilant, and then quickly realizes how complex life has suddenly become. She enrolls in her son’s seventh-grade computer class in hopes of enlisting his help, but it’s not that easy. . . . Patrick, Bernadette’s oldest son, has no idea what happened to his mother, but he refuses to give up hope. Unless he can get her back, he faces a life of waiting on his brothers. Can Patrick do the impossible? Can he rescue his mother . . . and return his family’s life to normal?