Books with author Richard O. Smith

These fun, fact-filled books are perfect for young researchers. The history, geography, and people of each state are covered in these books. The text is enhanced with maps, photos, and graphs. Timelines and fast-facts sections reinforce the text. The detailed and well-written books are ideal for both research and entertainment.Easy-to-read text with bright, full color photographs brings Kentucky to young students. Presented in a simple, easily understandable, "scrapbook" format, kids will truly enjoy opening this travelogue-like book. This 48-page book is filled with current state facts and statistical data. Important historical information segues to up-to-date details on cities, economics, geography, and climate. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company.

These fun, fact-filled books are perfect for young researchers. The history, geography, and people of each state are covered in these books. The text is enhanced with maps, photos, and graphs. Timelines and fast-facts sections reinforce the text. The detailed and well-written books are ideal for both research and entertainment.Easy-to-read text with bright, full color photographs brings Illinois to young students. Presented in a simple, easily understandable, "scrapbook" format, kids will truly enjoy opening this travelogue-like book. This 48-page book is filled with current state facts and statistical data. Important historical information segues to up-to-date details on cities, economics, geography, and climate. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company.

Title: A Month at Constantinople.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The HISTORY OF THE ANCIENT WORLD collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. Titles in this series include lectures, compiled sketches, and chronological discourses on Greece, Rome, and other early European and African civilisations. The collection also has a selection of physical and classical geography texts. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:++++<Source Library> British Library<Contributors> Smith, Albert Richard; <Original Pub Date> 1850.<Physical Description> 8º.<Shelfmark> 10125.b.16.

September 1940, and the world is at war. Britain stands alone, and the fate of the world might just rest on the actions of one girl, Emily Cartwright. In tragic circumstances Emily discovers that she has the power to see the future. Sensing danger, her father sends her away to Exeter, hoping to keep her from the clutches of those he fears would use her abilities for ill - be they the Nazis or even the British government. Emily soon discovers that Exeter is a city full of mysteries of its own; unexplained disappearances, an innocent man wrongly imprisoned, and a strange series of underground passages. Together with her friend Jack, she begins to investigate the murder of a local girl when they stumble upon a dark secret that puts their lives at risk. Second Sight is the first of the Second Sight Chronicles.

Adventures in Vacuumville – a series of bug-based escapades written by Stephen Richard Smith.In our universe, the infinity of space stretches out beyond imagining. Galaxies upon galaxies pepper voids like golf balls on limitless greens. Somewhere in this incalculable vastness exists our sun and its solar-system. The third planet nearest that sun is Earth. As seen from space, the blue areas are seas and the brown and green areas are land. On that ground, rivers, mountains, cities and towns thread and dot the landscape. In these towns are neighbourhoods where people work and sleep and eat and play. They live in houses with walls and windows and doors designed to shut out the big universe so that each person can create their own little world with TVs, sofas, refrigerators, carpets, ornaments, family photos, toy boxes, closets…and vacuum cleaners.In one of those closets, inside an ordinary vacuum cleaner, exists an extraordinary world, a microcosm of our own world, inhabited by tiny, living breathing, working, playing, squabbling and loving bugs and microbes. MILLIE, MITE and LOUSE are but three of them.Their home, to us humans, is tiny. Their neighbourhood is, to us, also unimaginably, insignificantly small. Their town (Vacuumville) is too microscopic for even our sharpest eyes to perceive and their Capital (Dustbag City), could only be detected (by us) with specialised equipment – which humans would never employ as we would never guess, even in our maddest daydream, that such a microscopic civilisation could exist, let alone endure.Nevertheless, it does.Adventure’s in Vacuumville is a series of stories limited only by the variety of detritus it is possible to suck into a vacuum cleaner. Each day, at around lunchtime when humans often vacuum their garbage-laden carpets, new and exciting objects land in Vacuumville. These objects form the catalyst for the narrative, the premise for adventure - each text based upon around MILLIE, MITE and LOUSE’S interaction with said objects.In this third (shorter, simpler) text, a button flies into Millie’s room as the result of a night-storm and she immediately decides it’s the world’s greatest picnic tray. So, a picnic it is and off they head on another daily adventure, which as you can probably guess from the title, develops into a rather larger ‘picnic’ than was anticipated.These warm stories of friendship, loyalties, conflicts and solutions are deliberately not dumbed-down in terms of their language – the vocabulary is ambitious. Currently, particularly in schools with accelerated reading schemes, advanced young readers are often left with little option but to read material in which the content is designed, thematically and emotionally, for an older readership. Adventures in Vacuumville aims to provide material for the younger advanced reader to enjoy, devoid of the themes which often prevail in texts aimed toward the chronologically developing reader of 12+ years (where ‘Reading Age’ and ‘Chronological Age’ match). Adventures in Vacuumville is aimed at higher ability readers of between 7 and 12 years of age with an advanced reading age, but, refreshingly for those young readers, the texts contain no teen themes, no young adult related content and no language which might contain content which pre-pubescent readers might find baffling or embarrassing.As a final note, I also have trialled these texts with some older children and they seemed to enjoy them too.Stephen Smith. Cert Ed. B.Sc. MA.