NBS recommends almanacs for kids
Time For Kids: Almanac 2012
By Time Inc. Company
P235
MANILA, Philippines - Packed with facts, stats and news from around the country and around the world, the Time For Kids Almanac 2012 includes information on topics ranging from animals to acid rain, voting rules to video games, sports stars to space exploration, and much more. This richly designed resource features more than 800 photos, maps, lists and timelines, and is sure to keep young readers engaged, entertained and learning — all at once.
The National Geographic Almanac 2012
By National Geographic
P399
Check out the world’s best-selling National Geographic Kids 2012 Almanac, No. 3 on The New York Times Best Sellers list for Children’s Paperbacks. In the lively style of National Geographic Kids magazine, this colorful page-turner excites young people about their world and everything in it. The National Geographic Kids 2012 Almanac is packed with fun-to-browse features, useful reference material, homework help developed by educators, and the kind of quirky facts that kids adore. Amazing animals, cool inventions, funny roadside attractions, outer space, green living, natural disasters, maps, puzzles—it’s all here in one irresistible volume.
Full Dark, No Stars
By Stephen King
P315
Just as many of his acclaimed works of short fiction have generated such enduring film as The Shawshank Redemption and Stand by Me, this chillingly rendered quartet of Stephen King tales “might yield another classic” (Columbus Dispatch), with its richly drawn characters and mesmerizing plotlines.
The Pacific: Hell Was An Ocean Away
By Hugh Ambrose
P315
With access to military records, letters, journals, memoirs, photos, and interviews, The Pacific offers a unique perspective on the war against Japan. These are the men who put their lives on the line; who were dispatched to the other side of the world to fight an enemy who preferred suicide to surrender; who suffered in POW camps and witnessed casualties among soldier and civilian alike; and whose medals came at a shocking price — a price paid in full by all.
The Help
By Kathryn Stockett
P315
Aibileen Clark is a black maid in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, raising her seventeenth white child. She’s always taken orders quietly, but lately it leaves her with a bitterness she can no longer bite back. Eventually, she and her seemingly different friends join to work on a project that could forever alter their destinies and the life of a small town: to write in secret a tell-all book about what it’s really like to work as a black maid in the white homes of the South.
