Books with author Catherine Chase

In Clash of the Gladiators join DK Adventure's exclusive SLIP club (Secret Living In the Past) — a group of young history buffs who belong to a top-secret club that allows them to travel throughout history to any time, any place through a phone app. This time their journey takes them to Ancient Rome, where the mighty gladiators are getting ready to stage a huge spectacle at the Colosseum. But trouble is stirring at the amphitheater. Will the team manage to foil an evil scheme? More important, will they ever see home again? DK Adventures are an innovative mix of narrative and nonfiction for kids ages 8-11 featuring engaging, action-packed stories that help kids build their skills in vocabulary, grammar, comprehension, and critical thinking while developing a love of reading. With diaries, recipes, poetry, instructions, graphics, or songs, the genre spreads in each DK Adventures title enhance the story and reinforce curriculum learning, while the expansive range of entertaining nonfiction subjects will appeal to boys and girls everywhere. Supports the Common Core State Standards.

Get outside and have fun with activities that can be done anywhere, without the use of complex equipment, batteries, or the internetEver wondered how to make a bottle xylophone or a pin-hole camera, or thought of growing crystals in vinegar or bending water with electricity? If so, this is the book for you. Helpfully divided into four thematic chapters—"Outdoor and Adventurous," "Science and Nature," "Arts and Crafts," and "Rainy Day"—this interactive book contains 101 fun activities and traditional pastimes that are a must for young, intelligent boys and girls keen to explore the world and learn new skills. It also contains space to tick off and rate each activity as they are completed. This book is guaranteed to encourage you to switch off the TV and shut down the computer and instead engage in hours of old-fashioned fun (and a little bit of mischief).

A Booklist Top 10 First Novels of 2012 pick A Bookpage Best Books of 2012 pick On the night Janie waits for her sister, Hannah, to be born, her grandmother tells her a story: Since the Japanese occupation of Korea, their family has lost a daughter in every generation, so Janie is charged with keeping Hannah safe. As time passes, Janie hears more stories, while facts remain unspoken. Her father tells tales about numbers, and in his stories everything works out. In her mother's stories, deer explode in fields, frogs bury their loved ones in the ocean, and girls jump from cliffs and fall like flowers into the sea. Within all these stories are warnings. Years later, when Hannah inexplicably cuts all ties and disappears, Janie embarks on a mission to find her sister and finally uncover the truth beneath her family's silence. To do so, she must confront their history, the reason for her parents' sudden move to America twenty years earlier, and ultimately her conflicted feelings toward her sister and her own role in the betrayal behind their estrangement. Weaving Korean folklore within a modern narrative of immigration and identity, Forgotten Country is a fierce exploration of the inevitability of loss, the conflict between obligation and freedom, and a family struggling to find its way out of silence and back to one another.

Teach your kids to like fruit and vegetables with the Best Food Friends alphabet book. ---About our books Best Food Friends’ books are not written to be readers for kids to read alone. They are a tool to help parents teach their children about healthy eating. By reading these stories together, children learn to think of fruit and vegetables as being a fun part of their daily diet.Children instinctively like the characters and their stories, which leads them to like the particular fruit or vegetable the story is about. In fact, a study by Yale University says that cartoon characters influence what children eat, and that children perceive such characters as loveable, positive and even superstars. By reading Best Food Friends’ books with your children, you have the opportunity to talk about healthy eating when they are in a relaxed receptive mood looking forward to a story.You will be amazed when your kids start asking for fruit and vegetables at the supermarket.So, introduce them to these loveable characters and make healthy eating easier by giving them the opportunity of having Best Food Friends in their life.

Boastful and Bashful go to the beach and Boastful gets himself into trouble. They both learn a valuable lesson about being careful.---About our books Best Food Friends’ books are not written to be readers for kids to read alone. They are a tool to help parents teach their children about healthy eating. By reading these stories together, children learn to think of fruit and vegetables as being a fun part of their daily diet.Children instinctively like the characters and their stories, which leads them to like the particular fruit or vegetable the story is about. In fact, a study by Yale University says that cartoon characters influence what children eat, and that children perceive such characters as loveable, positive and even superstars. By reading Best Food Friends’ books with your children, you have the opportunity to talk about healthy eating when they are in a relaxed receptive mood looking forward to a story.You will be amazed when your kids start asking for fruit and vegetables at the supermarket.So, introduce them to these loveable characters and make healthy eating easier by giving them the opportunity of having Best Food Friends in their life.---Hi we are the Banana Brothers Boastful & Bashful Here are some facts about us:Bananas are one of the healthiest snacks you can eat. We contain fibre, potassium, high levels of vitamins and minerals, like vitamin A, B, C, calcium, magnesium, some iron and zinc.Bananas are full of goodness, they help give you energy and strong bones.

Cheerful Cauliflower lives in a grocery store near the window. She really wishes she could live outside. One day cheerful has a terrible fall and finds herself locked in a dark room. Will she ever find her way out?---About our books Best Food Friends’ books are not written to be readers for kids to read alone. They are a tool to help parents teach their children about healthy eating. By reading these stories together, children learn to think of fruit and vegetables as being a fun part of their daily diet.Children instinctively like the characters and their stories, which leads them to like the particular fruit or vegetable the story is about. In fact, a study by Yale University says that cartoon characters influence what children eat, and that children perceive such characters as loveable, positive and even superstars. By reading Best Food Friends’ books with your children, you have the opportunity to talk about healthy eating when they are in a relaxed receptive mood looking forward to a story.You will be amazed when your kids start asking for fruit and vegetables at the supermarket.So, introduce them to these loveable characters and make healthy eating easier by giving them the opportunity of having Best Food Friends in their life.---Hi I’m Cheerful CauliflowerHere are some facts about me:I am great for your immune system, helping to keep you from getting colds and other nasty bugs. I am high in fibre. I have calcium, iron, magnesium, zinc, phosphorus, potassium, vitamin B and C to name a few. I am good for your liver and keep your blood healthy.

Silly Sweet Potato was silly as can be. He loved to flip, slip, skip and trip. Suddenly, he found himself in danger. Will he be brave enough to save the day?---About our books Best Food Friends’ books are not written to be readers for kids to read alone. They are a tool to help parents teach their children about healthy eating. By reading these stories together, children learn to think of fruit and vegetables as being a fun part of their daily diet.Children instinctively like the characters and their stories, which leads them to like the particular fruit or vegetable the story is about. In fact, a study by Yale University says that cartoon characters influence what children eat, and that children perceive such characters as loveable, positive and even superstars. By reading Best Food Friends’ books with your children, you have the opportunity to talk about healthy eating when they are in a relaxed receptive mood looking forward to a story.You will be amazed when your kids start asking for fruit and vegetables at the supermarket.So, introduce them to these loveable characters and make healthy eating easier by giving them the opportunity of having Best Food Friends in their life.---Hi I'm Silly Sweet PotatoHere are some facts about me:I am very nutritious, I have vitamin A, B, C, magnesium, copper, dietary fibre, potassium and iron. I also have antioxidant capacities. And I am good for your lungs they keep you breathing.I also take care of your cells in your body keeping nasty bugs away.

The world's myths are filled with characters, creatures, and stories that have fascinated people for thousands of years. This set mixes dramatic retellings and non-fiction information to give a full picture of a culture's myths. This book explores the gods, goddesses, heroes, villains, tricksters, and quests that make myths and legends so compelling.

How far would you go to save someone's life? Leah and Brennan are going all the way back to 1973. One Choice Changes Everything... In 1973, The Beat Detectors are the hottest TV pop band to hit the airwaves since The Monkees, thanks to the appealing vocals of rising teen idol Ronnie Basford. But behind the scenes, not everything is rainbows and unicorns. Ronnie realizes much too late that one bad decision can ruin your whole life. Forty years later, Ronnie is dead from an apparent suicide and his sixteen-year-old son Brennan wants answers. He needs to understand how it all went so wrong. When he finds himself dropped back in time, to the set of his father's TV show, he's determined to redirect the course of his father's life and create the happy ending Ronnie deserved. Soccer star Leah Reinard has been crushing on Brennan Basford for ages. When they end up at the same summer job, she thinks the fates have finally aligned in her favor. That is, until Brennan suddenly disappears from existence. One day he's there, the next day, he's gone. And no one but Leah even remembers him. Can Leah find Brennan in time to stop him from ruining both their futures?

Is burning coal still harmful today? What is fracking? What do we do when fossil fuels run out? This book looks at the potentially harmful implications on the state of our planet from the use of fossil fuels, discussing in depth the various techniques of fossil fuel extraction such as longwall mining for coal, the major effects of oil leaks and spills on the ocean and the reason for the heated debate about fracking. The book also looks at alternative energy sources such as biofuels, hydroelectric power and even a new type of rocket fuel.

Ape Adventures recounts various actual ape-human interactions, highlighting our complex relationship to these fascinating creatures.DK Readers is a multi-level learning-to-read program combining DK's highly visual style with appealing stories at five graduated levels. Stunning photographs and engaging, age-appropriate stories are guaranteed to capture a child's interest while developing reading skills and general knowledge. DK Readers allow progression from stories for beginning readers with simple sentences and word repetition through to stories with rich vocabulary and more challenging sentence structure for proficient readers. Written by leading children's authors and compiled in consultation with leading literacy experts.