Books with author Pamela M. Marston

Rowdy is a very active young rabbit. Because he is so curious, he can get himself into trouble. He has two sisters who watch his comedic behavior in amazement, whether near their home or visiting an animal at sea or at a farm or a zoo. The rabbit family knows that Rowdy is just being Rowdy, like it or not, but mama and papa are never quite sure what to expect next and realize a need to watch him very closely.

Magic squares and golden rectangles, skeletons and footprints, quilt patterns and temari balls make math ideas come to life in Math Amazements. Thirty-five sets of activities, designed to foster active thinking, infuse excitement into some of math's "big ideas" and provide stimulating projects and extra-credit assignments.<p><p><p>Math Amazements covers:<p> Factoring and geometric shapes<p> Five regular solids<p> Eratosthenes's prime number sieve<p> Optical illusions<p> Symmetry and tessellations<p> How different cultures invented different ways to do multiplication<p> Knot theory, probability and topography<p> Magic squares and golden rectangles<p> Introductions to some of history's great mathematicians, including Plato, Fibonacci, Moebius and Gauss

A chapter book for young readers, Twig's Family Tree introduces characters that are realistic, funny, and, in spite of themselves, brave. Growing up in a single parent household, the main character, Twig, doesn't have much in the way of toys, clothes or even food, but she does have books. Books inspire her to take her brother on a quest to find the most important thing they are missing in their lives -- a family.