"Revised edition with the most up to date stats, info, and sixteen pages of brand-new material! You can make theme parks with incredible waterslide rides, or entire pirate coves complete with galleons! Is there nothing that can't be achieved in Minecraft? Here the experts talk you through amazing constructs which range from awe-inspiring cathedrals to wacky inventions--like the hilarious animal cannon that catapults cows out to sea! Find out which...

From New York Times bestselling creators Drew Daywalt, author of The Day the Crayons Quit and The Day the Crayons Came Home , and Adam Rex, author-illustrator of Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich , comes a laugh-out-loud hilarious picture book about the epic tale of the classic game Rock, Paper, Scissors. You've played the game. Now read the legend of how it all began . . . Long ago, in an ancient and distant realm called the Kingdom of Backyard, there...

The pressure?s really piling up on Greg Heffley. His mom thinks video games are turning his brain to mush, so she wants her son to put down the controller and explore his ?creative side.? As if that?s not scary enough, Halloween?s just around the corner and the frights are coming at Greg from every angle. When Greg discovers a bag of gummy worms, it sparks an idea. Can he get his mom off his back by making a movie . . . and will he become rich and...

"It was an unlikely quest from the start. With a team composed of the sons of loggers, shipyard workers, and farmers, the University of Washington’s eight-oar crew team was never expected to defeat the elite teams of the East Coast and Great Britain, yet they did, going on to shock the world by defeating the German team rowing for Adolf Hitler. The emotional heart of the tale lies with Joe Rantz, a teenager without family or prospects, who rows...

"Revised edition with the most up to date stats, info, and sixteen pages of brand-new material! It's time to wire up and get connected to one of the most complex areas of Minecraft--redstone. Redstone experts guide you through all aspects of working with redstone including mining, smelting, using repeaters, circuit components, and circuit designs. This handbook--now with sixteen addtional pages of new content--also includes exclusive tips from game...

Originally published: New York : Morrow Junior Books, c1994. Includes bibliographical references. Introduces the different suits and face cards in a deck of cards, explains how to hold, shuffle, and deal them, and provides instructions for such games as Aces Up, Go Fish, and Spit.

From an author who wrote one of the bestselling Bobby Fischer books ever and who was himself a friend of Fischer's comes an impressively researched biography that for the first time captures the complete, remarkable arc of the life of the chess master.

Bart Minnock, founder of the computer gaming giant U-Play, enters his private playroom, eager to lose himself in an imaginary world where he plays the role of a sword-wielding warrior king.

In the latest diary of middle-schooler Greg Heffley, he records his attempts to spend his summer vacation sensibly indoors playing video games and watching television, despite his mother's other ideas.