Books with author Anne Rooney

Take a walk around the Secret Garden. Experience boarding school with A Little Princess. See life through a horse’s eyes with Black Beauty. Be enchanted by charming and hot-headed Anne of Green Gables. Carefully retold in clear contemporary language, and presented with delightful illustrations, these favorite classic stories will capture the heart and imagination of young readers. By retelling the story in a shorter, simpler form, children will find these books highly engaging, and the color illustrations help with both comprehension and interest level.

If antibiotics had not been discovered, would you be alive today? Nowadays we can treat all sorts of nasty injuries and illnesses, but it certainly wasnt so straightforward hundreds of years ago. In this title from the fantastic new You Wouldnt Want to Live Without series, youll learn all about the bizarre and gruesome ways that people used to combat infection: from maggots, to leeches, to moss! As you discover how bacteria work in your body, learn handy hints on how to survive throughout the ages, and discover how medicine is used in the present day, youll soon see why you really, really, wouldnt want to live without antibiotics! The well-organized text in this title allows readers to explore relationships between historic scientific events. Grade-appropriate contexts help readers determine the meaning of academic words and phrases while the vivid illustrations and text features help navigate the text and locate answers to questions.

Whether on land, in the air, at sea, or in space, these are the most EXTREME machines ever invented! Fastest. Biggest. Weirdest. From ultra-luxurious motorhomes and mining giants to gigantic spaceship-carrying transporters and the Large Hadron Collider, this eye-popping book features everything young readers want to know about the most amazing machines on the planet! With bite-size fact panels and incredible action photography of such contraptions as the powerful road train and big diggers, Extreme Machines is guaranteed to keep gadget-mad kids spellbound.

Take a walk around the Secret Garden. Experience boarding school with A Little Princess. See life through a horse’s eyes with Black Beauty. Be enchanted by charming and hot-headed Anne of Green Gables. Carefully retold in clear contemporary language, and presented with delightful illustrations, these favourite classic stories will capture the heart and imagination of young readers. By retelling the story in a shorter, simpler form, children will find these books highly engaging, and the color illustrations help with both comprehension and interest level.

Sara Crewe is the happiest girl at Miss Minchin’s school. Her doting father sends her lavish gifts from India and her kindness makes her a favourite with the other pupils.But when her father dies, Sara is left with nothing and Miss Minchin turns against her. Hoping she won’t spend the rest of her days in poverty, Sara uses her gentle nature to try and turn her fate around.The Classic Collection seriesCarefully abridged texts, retold in clear contemporary language, these titles are perfect for any English learners and can be enjoyed by all readers.Each page of writing is accompanied by a charming illustration on the facing page, so these well-loved classics will capture the readers’ heart and imagination. By condensing such classics into 48 pages as these, children are encouraged to one day read these stories in their original form.

Evolution: why did fish grow feet? is a fun, non-fiction narrative story of evolution. Rodent narrator Nippy takes us on a journey through time, looking at the events on our planet, from the first stages of life to our own appearance on Earth. This is a fun, informative and accessible book through which children can discover how our planet and the wonderful diverse creatures that have lived on it evolved. It has all the great animals that kids love to see and read about - from giant Sauroposeidons, to fierce Velociraptors and the mighty early mammals. Every animal is put into context using a fun and revealing timeline, which shows when each group of creatures lived on our planet and when they met their demise. A brilliant book for children to learn how our planet came to life, showing them all the major changes to our Earth through the last 700 million years+.

When Ben discovers that his Facebook page has been changed, he is worried. Then someone sends emails from his account! Have his personal and work files been hacked? This book looks at the topics of computer science and information and communications technology to explain how Ben's laptop and his company's network have been compromised, and how the systems administrator, network manager, and police investigators can track down the person carrying out the cyber attack.

Have you ever wondered why you need to study math? Does it bore you? What good are fractions, decimals, and angles anyway? 50 Amazing Things Kids Need to Know about Math is the book that makes math cool! It will help you realize that math is important and fascinating. It will teach you much more than how to add and subtract or determine the area of a triangle. Inside you’ll discover:How to bend a buildingHow to make a ghostHow to solve a crimeHow to count to infinityHow to crack codesHow to make a T-RexHow to flatten a planetHow to make an amazing mazeAnd much more!Whether you want to contact aliens, become a pop star, or even get rich, this book has something for everyone. It’s packed with fun activities and helpful diagrams, making the path to becoming a math mastermind simple, creative, and exciting.