Books with author Jame Richards

Have you ever wondered how guns and bullet proof jackets were invented? From spears and arrows to experiments with rocket and lasers, from chain mail to kevlar and ceramic plates, It'll Never Work: Weapons and Warfare explores the history and development of weaponry, the successes and failures that have led to the weapons of modern warfare that we know today.Each title in this exciting, high-interest series looks at a different area of technology and engineering and reveals the pioneering ideas and scientific thinking that enabled its development, as well as exposing those that proved to be a dead end. Each spread examines a particular example in depth, bringing in other similar ideas where relevant, and revealing that experimentation and failure often pave the way to technology success. Beautifully designed and illustrated with infographic-style artwork, this series is an excellent technology resource for readers aged 9 and up.

Jerome the Gnome came about one evening sitting around the Campfire in North Western Washington. My daughter asked for a story and this is what I came up with. I wanted to tell her about the wonderful creatures of the forest and how they could get along.I wrote it down on our return and asked Melanie's Grandmother Mary if she could draw some pictures to go with it. The pictures you see in this book come from her to all of you with Love. The look for Gerome came from a Doll Melanie's Mother Aiyana made. He sits in a rocking chair in the living room of the house.

Have you ever wondered what made human beings think they could go to the Moon? The idea of exploring space started with fiction and science-fiction written by authors like Jules Verne and H G Wells. Little did they know that space travel would become a reality! It'll Never Work: Rockets and Space Travel explores the history of space travel and spaceships, the successes and failures that have led to the very recent Pluto flyby by the New Horizons spacecraft.Each title in this exciting, high-interest series looks at a different area of technology and engineering and reveals the pioneering ideas and scientific thinking that enabled its development, as well as exposing those that proved to be a dead end. Each spread examines a particular example in depth, bringing in other similar ideas where relevant, and revealing that experimentation and failure often pave the way to technology success. Beautifully designed and illustrated with infographic-style artwork, this series is an excellent technology resource for readers aged 9 and up.

The story is set in 1939. The world is in turmoil as is the life of a young girl who has just turned twelve. Although finally happily settled in Washington, DC with her mother, stepfather and brother after years of being shifted about among relatives, sherealizes her life can change again at any moment. Born of a brilliant, quirky and nomadic mother, she is constantly subject to coping with divorced parents, an unstable life and religious conflict among relatives. In the fall of 1939, facing yet another of her mothers whims, she finds herself on an adventurous cross-country trip on newly completed Route 66. Her family moves to Hollywood. She struggles with a strange lifestyle among movie extras while living in a rooming house run by her mother. As 1940 approaches, she faces another turnaroundanother journey. This book is a must read for anyone who has searched for self amid out of control circumstances and hand-me-down genes. Although fictionalized, the story is based on the authors own twelfth year.