Yolanda’s Genius, a Newbery Honor winner, is the story of an African-American family’s love and courage in difficult times. Yolanda is smart, tough, and big for her age. Her brother, Andrew, doesn’t talk much and has trouble reading. But Andrew can create beautiful music on his harmonica. Yolanda wonders if her brother is a musical genius. Can his talent be developed and shared with other people? One day some boys destroy the harmonica – and Andrew’s music stops. Soon Yolanda must make an important decision: whether to try to find another harmonica for Andrew, or to obey her mother
During a highly secretive mission over the Amazon Rainforest, a state-of-the-art cargo plane loses communication and goes down in the jungle. Concerned for the safety of the pilots as well as trying to retrieve the classified shipment of a synthetic narcotic seized by the DEA, the head of the Van Baron company turns to his three close friends to find the aircraft before anyone knows it’s missing. Driven by a sense of honor and duty, documentary filmmaker and college professor Cal Bailey and his two best friends
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OpenSciEd High School addresses all high school NGSS standards. This comprehensive science curriculum empowers students to question, design, investigate, and solve the world around them.
OpenSciEd High School addresses all high school NGSS standards. This comprehensive science curriculum empowers students to question, design, investigate, and solve the world around them.