Books with title INDEPENDENCE HALL

Thirteen-year-old Quest (Q) isn't sure he's ready for a new family. For a long time it's just been him and his mom, Blaze. But everything changes when Blaze falls in love with Roger and they start a new rock band called Match. Now they're married, have a hit record, and Match is going out on a year-long driving tour across the country. Q, along with new stepsister Angela, will take a year off from school and travel with the band. For now, home will be a luxury motor coach and homework will be a Web site diary of their travels. Perfect-Q can practice his magic tricks and Angela can read her spy novels. What can go wrong? As Q and Angela settle into their new life and new relationship as siblings, they start to notice that certain coincidences don't seem coincidental. For example, how does a band roadie named Boone find them in the middle of a desert where their coach just happens to break down? Why does a man from their parents' wedding keep showing up in the same cities they stop at? When they reach Philadelphia, Q and Angela realize this tour is definitely not the trip their parents had planned and that the "City of Brotherly Love" is full of mysteries and secrets that could threaten their new life together. In addition to his action adventure books, Roland is the author of many award-winning books for children including Journey of the Red Wolf; The Captain's Dog: My Journey with the Lewis and Clark Tribe; and Thunder Cave, which was a 1996 Notable Children's Trade Book in the field of Social Studies. His books with Sleeping Bear Press include W is for Waves: An Ocean Alphabet; Z is for Zookeeper: A Zoo Alphabet; and N is for our Nation's Capital: A Washington, DC Alphabet. Roland lives near Portland, Oregon.

Thirteen-year-old Quest (Q) isn't sure he's ready for a new family. For a long time it's just been him and his mom, Blaze. But everything changes when Blaze falls in love with Roger and they start a new rock band called Match. Now they're married, have a hit record, and Match is going out on a year-long driving tour across the country. Q, along with new stepsister Angela, will take a year off from school and travel with the band. For now, home will be a luxury motor coach and homework will be a Web site diary of their travels. Perfect-Q can practice his magic tricks and Angela can read her spy novels. What can go wrong? As Q and Angela settle into their new life and new relationship as siblings, they start to notice that certain coincidences don't seem coincidental. For example, how does a band roadie named Boone find them in the middle of a desert where their coach just happens to break down? Why does a man from their parents' wedding keep showing up in the same cities they stop at? When they reach Philadelphia, Q and Angela realize this tour is definitely not the trip their parents had planned and that the "City of Brotherly Love" is full of mysteries and secrets that could threaten their new life together. In addition to his action adventure books, Roland is the author of many award-winning books for children including Journey of the Red Wolf; The Captain's Dog: My Journey with the Lewis and Clark Tribe; and Thunder Cave, which was a 1996 Notable Children's Trade Book in the field of Social Studies. His books with Sleeping Bear Press include W is for Waves: An Ocean Alphabet; Z is for Zookeeper: A Zoo Alphabet; and N is for our Nation's Capital: A Washington, DC Alphabet. Roland lives near Portland, Oregon.

When the 56 men signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776, they knew that they were making history. When it was read aloud outside Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a new nation was founded. Independence Hall colorfully illustrates the many historical acts that took place within the red brick walls of this landmark building. Informative sidebars, a timeline of events, a bibliography for further reference, and a glossary of unfamiliar terms aid young readers as they explore the establishment of the United States of America.

A family saga: Christos P, failed mathematician and backgammon wiz, traces the teenage years of his mother Eleni during the dark days of the dictatorship in Greece, and tries to come to grips with Bithro, the Gypsy father that he never knew. His sister, the historian Clio --- spirit of humanity's thirst to understand the past --- harks further back, she tells the story of the beautiful Khryssa and her father Sarantos during the turmoil of the Greek war of independence against the Turks. The narrative moves from the magical bay of Pylos in the Peloponnese to the academic halls of Princeton, from the bazaars of the Middle East to Stasi's East Berlin, from the besieged Tripolitza of 1821 to the dungeons of the dictatorship, weaving a storied contemplation on chance, Greece, and revolution --- three intertwined subjects that are as essential (you can hardly understand the world without them) as they are intractable.The author’s mathematical work often deals with the theory of probability, that is to say, with the subject of chance, an element ubiquitous in our lives and the world, and yet impossible to understand. It is as if our brain refuses to deal properly with chance. This book is, among other things, a storied contemplation of chance. Independence is one of the key concepts in the theory of probability. Two events are independent if you can safely ignore one when dealing with the other. Thank heavens for independence, thinking about the world would be impossible without it. Except that independence is a myth, it can't really exist on a planet with an atmosphere and a global economic system and an Internet. But aren't myths crucial? Much of “Independence” revolves around a whodunit – was Eleni betrayed to her torturers by Bithro, love of her life? – powered by the concept of independence.Ultimately, independence means that every morning can be a new day – as long as we leave behind the burdens of yesterday (dictatorship, Ottoman rule, tortured mother). The only question is, can we?The Greek press on "Independence" (Patakis, Athens, 2012): The co-creator of «Logicomix» is coming back with a concert-like novel about love, history and submachine guns, published by Pataki. Pardon my superlatives, but I must say it: This is the Best Greek Novel of the year. Yes, in capital letters! The buzz is traveling through word of mouth from reader to reader, from circle to circle. Christos H. Papadimitriou, Professor at Harvard, MIT, Stanford and now Berkeley […] accomplishes though "Independence" the impossible: to write a great historical novel within the American tradition, albeit with a narrative of Homeric dimensions, a work of fiction as blue as the sea of Pylos, where the story begins and ends. (Stefanos Tsitsopoulos, Athens Voice)"The dice have no memory," says the narrator of the book Christos P, and in mathematics this is called "independence." "Independence" is also the title of the latest novel by Berkeley Professor Christos Papadimitriou. (Manolis Pimplis, Ta Nea)Moving through multiple levels of space and time, the author manages to integrate the chaotic choices of his heroes […] into an impeccably organized literary order, in which even the tiniest element seems to have been placed precisely in its correct position. A coming of age novel in which politics meets history, while mathematics provides the basis for an intense existential search.(To Vima)

When the 56 men signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776, they knew that they were making history. When it was read aloud outside Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a new nation was founded. Independence Hall colorfully illustrates the many historical acts that took place within the red brick walls of this landmark building. Informative sidebars, a timeline of events, a bibliography for further reference, and a glossary of unfamiliar terms aid young readers as they explore the establishment of the United States of America.