This guide to Vermont's twelve remaining fire towers and six observation towers will take you above the trees to some of the most panoramic views in the Green Mountains. Whether you are looking for a short walk to the tow-story observatory on Prospect Hill in Brownington or a 22-mile backpacking trip to the remote fire tower on Glastenbury Mountain, in this guide you will find driving directions to the trailheads, parking information, trail descriptions...

When Zookeeper Fred's green snake Vern gets loose in the zoo, the Questioneers need all their talents to help find him, but in the end, it is Aaron's art that leads the way. Includes facts about snakes.

A fourteen-year-old boy attempts to be the youngest person to reach the top of Mount Everest.

On Green Day at her school, Cam and her classmates discuss ways to protect the environment, but when money collected for the the school's new skylights disappears, Cam uses her photographic memory to solve the mystery.

In a future world where those between the ages of thirteen and eighteen can have their lives "unwound" and their body parts harvested for use by others, three teens go to extreme lengths to uphold their beliefs--and, perhaps, save their own lives.

When thirteen-year-old Tai Pham inherits his grandmother's jade ring, he soon finds out he has been inducted into a group of space cops knows as the Green Lanterns.

A novel in which the members of a Japanese American family present their unique perspectives on the experience of being forced into an internment camp during World War II.

"Love blooms in the darkest days . . . It's 1942, and London remains under constant threat of enemy attack as the second world war rages on. In the Bethnal Green neighborhood, Nellie Morris counts every day lucky that she emerges from the underground shelters unharmed, her loving family still surrounding her. Three years into the war, she's grateful to hold onto remnants of normalcy - her job assisting the mayor and nights spent at the local pub with...

When J. P. Morgan called a meeting of New York's financial leaders after the stock market crash of 1907, Hetty Green was the only woman in the room. The Guinness Book of World Records memorialized her as the World's Greatest Miser, and, indeed, this unlikely robber baron -- who parlayed a comfortable inheritance into a fortune that was worth about 1.6 billion in today's dollars -- was frugal to a fault. But in an age when women weren't even allowed...