Books published by publisher Pacific Learning

Grace, a teenage girl, is the best sailor on board the pirate ship Sea Devil, but Captain Cutthroat leaves her to die out on a desert island anyway. Through cunning and courage, Grace manages to survive, and ends up being rescued less than a year later by the same crew that abandoned her. They have been abandoned by their captain and face certain death without her leadership. She agrees to help them, wins a few battles (making them all rich), and then turns them to a life of respectability.Text Type: Realistic Fiction, Historical FictionTheme/Topic: Human History, World Connections

Survival. Would you be able to survive the frozen wastes of the Arctic or the blazing heat of the desert? What sort of house is safe from floods? Did you know that clothes can keep you cool as well as warm? Find out how the people who spend their lives in extreme conditions manage to live and work, how they get their food and water, what they wear, and how they travel. Text Type: ExplanationTheme/Topic: World Connections, Conflict and Challenge

Kevin's soccer team The Reject Rovers has lost 39 games, and if it loses one more, it will go down in the record books as the worst team in the world. To make matters worse, Kevin's tale of woe was covered in a most humiliating fashion by the local paper, and bully Sean Slacker is tormenting him daily. Kevin has to win, and with the coaching help of Alex, the new renter living in his house, his team improves dramatically. Despite a rotten rub with planted itching powder, the Rovers win and escape infamy.Text Type: General NarrativeTheme/Topic: Sports, Friendship

his book looks at two African countries, Botswana and Ghana. Botswana is on the edge of the Kalahari Desert in southern Africa. Ghana is a land of rain forests and grassland on the coast of west Africa. Find out about people's everyday lives - school, family life, and living in towns and cities. Also learn about how these two countries are changing, and determine which one to visit!Text Type: Explanation, Expository, ReportTheme/Topic: World Connections: Africa, Politics/Government

Doohickey thinks working as a professor's assistant will be exciting. Then he finds out that the job is all about household chores and doesn't involve exciting experiments at all. Doohickey decides that the professor's greatest invention - a huge robot - can do the chores for him! Unfortunately, the robot does what he is told, not what he should do, and Doohickey is left to deal with the professor and clean up the mess. Main Characters: Doohickey, the professor, Newton the dogText Type: Fantasy Fiction, Science FictionTheme/Topic: Physical Science, Adventure

Jump into literacy with an exciting new series of nonfiction, multicultural leveled readers. Brought to you by a team of academic intervention specialists who know what children need for language and literacy development. Hopscotch books engage children with their homegrown look, reminiscent of a family photo album. Children are excited to read and talk about the familiar characters and places featured in the photographs.This series features:

In a series of four short stories, Sherlock Holmes uses his extraordinary intelligence, instincts, and observation skills to solve mysteries. In the first tale, he discovers that a terminally ill father has killed a man to save his daughter from the horrible fate of being a pawn in a blackmail scheme. In the second, he learns that a wicked hotel employee has stolen a valuable blue gem and hidden it in a goose that he then lost, all the while framing another man for his crime. In the third, he hunts down both a missing horse and the killer of a racehorse trainer, only to find that the missing horse killed the man in self-defense. Finally, he saves a young woman from danger as she is hired to impersonate a kidnapped heiress. Text Type: Classic Fiction, MysteryTheme/Topic: Adventure, Conflict and Challenge