Books published by publisher Backpack

Animal balloons are easy and fun to make - here are some basic tips to get you started. The models demonstrated use the 12-inch balloons included in this kit. Fully inflated, a balloon could be five times this size! However, balloons are easiest to work if they are only half-full of air. If you fill them with too much air, they might burst. Follow the instructions for each model carefully. Use a balloon pump to inflate the balloons. Measurements given for bubble lengths are just a guide to help you get started. You can adjust lengths later to suit your taste. Always ask an adult to cut off any untidy bits of leftover balloon with a pair of scissors. Keep these small pieces as they come in handy for adding details on some of the models.

From author and former scientist Roger B. Smith, this is the first of Seven Books in a Series about youth adventures, discovery, antics between friends, and unfortunately PERIL!Xavier Winfield is a precious 11 year old in a time past where life was simple, entertainment was often found outside the house, and adventure was a lived experience. With his one year younger best friend Oggie (pronounced AWE-gee), they discover life together in the most unusual and extravagant ways, often not by their own choosing but a result of the places they locate themselves because of their shared adventurous nature.By Episode Three, a new youth joins the team for the remainder of the series who becomes a contest for the intellect senior of the adventure duo, turned trio. Will Xavier and Oggie be able to remain best friends? Will their relationship overcome the strain and emotion, of this new element? Learn with them in each successive episode how jealousy, pride, loyalty, and discouragement, can impact our relationships and how each can be overcome through ones own choices.The books are written for Young Adult and Adult audiences alike, with an emphasis upon learning lessons in life without having to run the yardage and without getting severely injured along the way. Each episode has a lesson to be learned plus many things in life that have to be dealt with along the way, and also how to deal with them. Friendships and relationships can be a challenge, but more challenging is how to nurture and grow them.Each episode has geological, industrial, or scientific, fact or phenomenon, that is weaved into the escapade, in such a way that the presentation is interesting while also learning something of interest. A glossary is provided in the back of the book for italicized words throughout the text so that the reader can look up advanced or special genre meanings.OF SPECIAL INTEREST - Every book is written for general audience without expletives or immoral content.Come join the boys as they grow up with each successive episode and take you on the ride of your life !!

Find out what it is like to witness a volcano eruption. Using the thumb index, you can whiz through time-minutes, days, years, or sometimes even centuries-from one page to the next. It's an exciting trip! You can wander the streets of Roman Pompeii, then watch an avalanche of burning hot ash demolish the city. Now fast forward to centuries later. Pompeii is rediscovered and tourists walk around it.

Frances and Thelma are best friends most of the time. When Frances goes to Thelma's house for a tea party, Mother says, "Be careful. When you play with Thelma you always get the worst of it." But Frances isn't careful and her good friend Thelma sells her an old plastic tea set, when Frances really wants a new china one with pretty blue pictures. Worst of all, there are no backsies! But with some clever thinking, Frances ends up getting the best of a bad bargain.