Books with author John Woodruff

Ever since she was a baby, when Sarah looked out her bedroom window, she saw something in a nearby tree. It was a little squirrel! Oh, how she loved to see that little squirrel! Day in and day out, the little squirrel never left the branch of that tree, and Sarah grew to love her little bushy-tailed friend. With all her heart she wanted to play with him. Would she ever get her wish? Her fourth birthday would bring more than one wonderful surprise! A book to help children overcome their fears, especially when faced with visiting a whole new kind of doctor!

Two teenage girls, sisters a year apart, are in a terrible auto accident near where they live, a few miles from the Civil War battlefield at Shiloh. The older is killed outright. The younger is badly brain-damaged. In a coma, she meets people who are dressed oddly, who speak English but not quite the English she speaks. Eventually she comes out of the coma, but continues to see and talk with these people whom the reader soon identifies as doctors, nurses, and soldiers- Northern and Southern- who are on their way to Shiloh to fight a great Civil War battle. The girl is befriending people of the last century who are soon to die. As fascinating as these occurrences are, they are associated with the girl's refusal to accept the death of her sister. Indeed, her doctors expect the girl herself to die of her own injuries. But she fools everybody, and by witnessing the deaths of her Civil War-era friends she is able to come to terms with the loss of her sister.

Almost every blockbuster movie is now released in 3D. Add scents, seats that move, and more and suddenly it feels like you're in the movie, that's 4D. Today, moviemakers don't need film to make movies. They don't even need scenery or many practical effects, if they don't want them. Readers may be surprised at the amazing technology that exists to make movies look the way they do today. Action-packed, full-color photographs accompany accessible text describing a variety of the latest, most interesting and future forms of cinema technology. There's something for cinephiles and casual moviegoers to learn on every page.

Someday, families might fly aboard spacecraft to reach their vacation destination. That day might be sooner than many think with companies like Space X hard at work on kinds of spaceflight that could lead to space tourism. This book explores the deep reaches of space alongside the latest high-tech developments used for space travel and exploration. Exciting photographs of this technology at work draws in readers even more as they discover the vast unknowns of space, including many curriculum-supporting STEM concepts.