Books with author Katherine Lin

Praise for Caterpillar Tales: "Charming."—Rob Clough, tcj.com "Delightful."—weloveyouso.com (Spike Jonze’s blog) "[Katherine Roy’s] 'kids' comics have just as much to offer adults and maybe still more to parents."—Rich Kreiner, tcj.com Have you ever wanted to be something really really badly? More than anything in the world, Caterpillar, a charming and adventurous bug, wants to be a Junior Pharaoh. But she can’t do it alone. With the help of a new, Egyptian friend, Mummy Cat, she’ll battle snakes, hippos and crocodiles, and learn what it takes to be a real Junior Pharaoh. Will she make it? Junior Pharaoh is the third book in the "charming" and "delightful" Caterpillar Tales comics series for readers of all ages. BONUS STORIES INCLUDED: —Caterpillar is planning a dinner party, but what will she do when her soup becomes explosive?! Find out in Soup. —When Caterpillar stares up at the clouds, she never expects them to come to life! Now there's a giant robot on the rampage in her little town. How will she escape this daring adventure? Find out in White River Junction.

This informative book begins, "Warm, tea-colored water swirls gently around our canoe as we paddle slowly up the salty channel." Take a journey through the Mangrove Swamp and learn about its many important roles. "...a home for wildlife; a protector of our coastal land and clear seas; a nursery ground for baby marine animals; and an amazing nutrition source for the abundant life in our shallow oceans."

This book is for ages 8-10. The lively, authentic drawings and descriptive paragraphs of this book tell why Hawaiian coral reefs are unique and environmentally important. Boasting some of the world's most richly coloured animals, the Hawaiian reefs are home to many found nowhere else on earth. The author depicts 100 animals and reef plants, lists their Hawaiian, English and scientific names, and helps the reader to understand why the fragile coral reefs must be protected and how each of us can help.

Behind the beautiful forevers: life, death and hope in a mumbai undercity was written by the pulitzer prize-winning american investigative journalist, katheirne boo this book is a documentary of the writer's experiences in a mumbai slum called annawadi between november 2007 and march 2011 the story in this book primarily focuses on three main families abdul, belonging to one of these families is an expert in shifting garbage from one place to anotherone leg, a cripple living in annawadi, has sexual desires that can't be fulfilled by her husband another important chracter in this book is asha, a political worker belonging to the shiv sena party she is the most ambitious person in the book, and hopes to become a slumlord one day by treading the tried-and-tested path of political corruptionin behind the beautiful forevers: life, death and hope in a mumbai undercity, though the characters all belong to an impoverished background, they still share the common emotion of hope hope is the only thing that keeps them from falling apart in their bleak existence this book portrays how poor people are alienated into staying poor all their lives by the richer sections of society, from whom they barely recieve any helpfor the people living in annawadi, earning enough money to become a part of the middle-class is a grand dream that most cant acheive this book portrays the story of how abdul the garbage shifter is falsely implicated in the murder of his neighbour, fatima behind the beautiful forevers: life, death and hope in a mumbai undercity is a compelling depiction of real-life people living in an impverished mumbai slumthis book was published by penguin india in 2013, and is available in the form of a paperback

Preschoolers will find the ordinary extraordinary with Mimi! Following on from Let's Find Mimi at Home, join the hunt for Mimi on holiday in this exciting journey. With wonderfully detailed and vibrant illustrations, children will enjoy finding Mimi from the airport to the beach. Hours of eye-boggling, puzzling fun! Includes an exciting holiday board game. Mimi enjoys common first experiences in a familiar and comforting world—perfect for preschool and nursery children.

The Caramel Tree Readers Level 5 is a delicious series of leveled readers for children ages 7 to 9. With approximately 4,000 words each, the stories provide students the opportunity to expand their reading skills by witnessing character development and more complex plots. These stories expose students to fluent prose, including idioms and colloquial language as well as more complex grammatical structures. Kahotep can see the big pyramid from his bedroom window. He always wanted to visit the big pyramid, but he is not allowed to go there alone. He finds a perfect partner in his sister, Bahiti, and together they set off on an adventure that will test their loyalty, friendship, and intellect.

It is London 1665, a year fraught with strange and unearthly events. Comets fly low in the sky while merchants clamor for war. Eleven year old Erasmus T. Muddiman attends St Paul’s School with his younger brother. He enjoys Latin but hates to create Latin verses, preferring the new sciences as seen at the Royal Society. He plays football with the lads in Paul’s Yard, shimmies up the drainpipe outside his bedchamber window and he saves his brother, Desiderius, from all sorts of scrapes. Soon, Erasmus cannot avoid the rumors of war. Men and boys are pressganged, taken to ships or the dockyards. Plague enters the city. As school fellows disappear, Erasmus and his family meet a terrible fate of survival. Who will live and who will die?

The Caramel Tree Readers Level 3 is a delicious series of leveled readers for children ages 7 to 9. It offers a long list of new, original stories with approximately 1,000 words. In this series, students are presented with a variety of genres including realistic fiction, whacky fantasy, and action adventure. William is quite jealous of his friend’s big garden and wants to have his own, but his family lives in an apartment. He is frustrated, believing that no one is listening to him and no one cares. One night, William goes to sleep in a bad mood and soon finds himself in the strangest of situations as watermelons start to grow in unusual places.