Abe and Willie live across the alley from each other. Willie is black and Abe is Jewish, and during the day, they don't talk. But at night they open their windows and are best friends. Willie shows Abe how to throw a real big-league slider, and Abe gives Willie his violin to try out. Then one night, Abe's grandfather catches them—will Abe and Willie have the courage to cross the alley and reveal their friendship during the day?
 Like the bestselling The Other Side, E. B. Lewis's striking, atmospheric watercolors bring to life a moving story of baseball and music, and how two young people try to bridge the divide of prejudice.

Across the Alley

Children's Books

Richard Michelson

Sports & Outdoors

G.P.Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers'

Abe and Willie are next-door neighbors. During the day they don't play together, because Abe is Jewish and Willie is black. But at night, when nobody's watching, they're best friends. All summer long, Abe and Willie open their windows across the alley to play catch. Abe lends Willie his violin, while Willie shows Abe how to throw a real big-league slider. Then one night, Abe's grandfather catches them - will Abe and Willie have the courage to cross the alley and bring their friendship out in the open?Set against a backdrop of old-time Brooklyn, E. B. Lewis's haunting watercolors and Richard Michelson's stirring prose capture both the fun and the danger of having a secret best friend. It is a powerful story of overcoming prejudice that will strike a chord with readers of all ages.

G. P. Putnam (The PJ Library)

Grandpa's Gamble is a Marshall Cavendish publication.

Grandpa's Gamble

Literature & Fiction

Marshall Cavendish Corporation

If an insect can fly, we might think it's a fly and call it a fly, but can it join the club Diptera? That club (scientists call it an "order") is reserved for real flies only-to join, an insect must have six legs and two wings. There are close to 90,000 species of flies. In the witty poems and paragraphs of this enlightening book, you'll discover fantastic flies that exist only in the imagination and fascinating facts about nine real files-and even some non-flies you thought were flies! With a humorous and descriptive mix of poetry and prose, the author exposes several extraordinary variations of this ordinary household pest. Realistic and interpretive drawings mingle on the pages to depict the types of flies you might encounter. It's something to think about the next time you go to swat a fly! New York Public Library's 1999 "Best Children's Books for Reading and Sharing."

A Book of Flies Real or Otherwise

Animals

Marshall Cavendish Children's Books

"Fiddlesticks! Six? The best? Poppycock! You want TEN TIMES BETTER? Dial a croc. I have SIXTY teeth. I'm a great masticator. (That means I chew first, and ask questions later.)" RICHARD MICHELSON and the late LEONARD BASKIN show that learning to count and to multiply by ten need never be boring! In a counting book like no other, a variety of animals duel for the honor of the number they represent. Backed up by interesting natural history information, the poems are clever, sometimes even preposterous. Bold watercolors convey the animals' conviction that their number is undoubtedly the best! Children will laugh their way along the road to numerical literacy.

Ten Times Better

Education & Reference

A is for Abraham: A Jewish Family Alphabet

Sleeping Bear Press

Lipman Pike

Zachary Pullen

Is For Abraham

Introduction to California Criminal Law: Substantive and Procedural (2012 Edition) for

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