Help children get hooked on learning as they solve puzzles involving both words and visuals. With more than 70 puzzles, this book is sure to spark visual, logical, spatial, and mathematical thinking. Perfect for spare classroom moments or hours of learning fun at home.

A yummy word search set in a bakery, a game with a magic square, a "sum situation" where numbers form a word code: these and many more supersizzling "brain games" will entertain kids for hours

Feel the burn! Your brain is in high gear trying to solve 188 puzzles of all kinds, from anagrams, rebuses and word pyramids to cubed sums and cryptograms. Find the names of 13 animals in a grid: you can search horizontally and vertically, backwards and forwards, but not diagonally. And no: there's not a word list to make the hunt easier. Decipher a visually knotty problem: look at several pictures of a twisty string and try to figure out how many of them would actually form a knot if the string were pulled. Complete a crossword by substituting letters for numbers. And do you know the unusual connection between these 3 words: flask, flash, flags? When you come up with the answer, try to think of other 4-letter words that display the same characteristics. Plus: What Comes Next?; Missing Figures; Double Magic; and more.

Matching drivers with their cars, with the help of some tricky license plates? That "auto" be fun...and it's just one of the cool brainteasers in this mind-mashing collection! Play the "name game" by using a name to fill in the blanks and complete a word. Or enjoy "rhyme time" by answering clever clues with two-word rhyming phrases. There are hours of enjoyment on these pages!

This pick-up-and-go guide is the perfect cross-curricular companion to reading Lewis Sachar's book, Holes, with your students. Classroom-tested, and carefully connected to the storyline, the guide builds on student enthusiasm for Holes, by presenting multi-level, thought-provoking, hands-on, and fun lessons for students from third to seventh grade.

From journalist Peter Ames Carlin, Sonic Boom captures the rollicking story of the most successful record label in the history of popular music, Warner Bros. Records, and the remarkable secret to its meteoric rise. The roster of Warner Brothers Records and its subsidiary labels reads like the roster of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Jimi Hendrix, the Grateful Dead, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, James Taylor, Fleetwood Mac, the Eagles, Prince, Van Halen, Madonna, Tom Petty, R.E.M., Red Hot Chili Peppers, and dozens of others. But the most compelling figures in the Warner Bros. story are the sagacious Mo Ostin and the unlikely crew of hippies, eccentrics, and enlightened execs. Ostin and his staff transformed an out-of-touch company, revolutionized the industry, and, within just a few years, created the most successful record label in the history of the American music industry. How did they do it? One day in 1967, the newly tapped label president Mo Ostin called his team together to share his grand strategy: he told them to stop trying to make hit records/ "Let’s just make good records and turn those into hits.” With that, Ostin ushered in a counterintuitive model that matched the counterculture. His offbeat crew recruited outsider artists and gave them free rein, while rejecting out-of-date methods of advertising, promotion, and distribution. And even as they set new standards for in-house weirdness, the upstarts’ experiments and innovations paid off, to the tune of hundreds of legendary hit albums. Warner Bros Records conquered the music business by focusing on the music rather than the business. Their story is as raucous as it is inspiring—pure entertainment that also maps a route to that holy grail: love and money. Includes black-and-white photographs