Never been to a movie. Never played baseball with a real team. Never got over feeling guilty for the loss of his brother. But change is in the air. Billy discovers he has a natural talent for baseball, especially as a pitcher. Maybe, just maybe, there's more in store for him than life on the farm. But can Billy convince his father of that? Or is he destined to spend the rest of his life pitching nothing but hay?Teenager Billy Baggs is desperately needed on his family's struggling dairy farm, but he's also an extraordinarily gifted natural baseball player. How he struggles to reconcile his father's desire to keep him on the farm with his coach's interest in getting him on the field is at the heart of this ‘meaty story.… The complex characters grow and change in profoundly real ways.''K. ‘[With] flashes of humor, a wealth of lovingly recounted details evokes the difficult daily life on a small dairy farm.''Publishers Weekly. 1994 Best Books for Young Adults (ALA)1994 Books for the Teen Age (NY Public Library)1993 "Pick of the Lists" (ABA)

    Introduces familiar ballet steps, demonstrating what lies behind these seemingly effortless movements and how they are woven into classical ballet.

    It also provides a behind-the-scenes look at how a ballet company operates and how a class is held. Over 60 Web site addresses are listed from a photo-essay on life in the classroom to paintings of dancers by artist Edgar Degas. Animated sequences of dancers demonstrating ballet steps are just one of the many types of pictures that are available.

    ‘The combination of action shots and the author’s practiced, informal style will win the attention of young readers, with whom Simon charges the future of big cats.’ —C. Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children 1991 (NSTA/CBC)1994 Garden State (NJ) Children's Nonfiction Award

    A fully illustrated, hardback book, this is clothbound and finished with gold details in a traditional style. A sturdy slipcase protects the cover, making this a gift to treasure for many years. This makes a beautiful, sumptuous gift edition perfect for a Christening, naming ceremony or first birthday. Truly an heirloom of the future. Fully illustrated with the charming, painterly artwork of Richard Johnson.

    -- A basic vocabulary of 100 words is delightfully illustrated by Stephen Cartwright-- Foreign language editions list each word with its English equivalent-- Sticker books have 100 stickers to correspond with vocabulary-- The 40-minute video tapes are animated introductions that make learning a language simple and fun