"40+ bite-size stories, quizzes, and puzzles to make spelling and word use fun!"--Cover.

Sink your teeth into the plants that feed the world—flowers, fruits, seeds, and all! With its simple text and bright, appealing illustrations, this book is perfect for young readers learning about where their food comes from. Clearly-labeled diagrams show the different parts of plants we use and eat—leaves of spinach and cabbage, the roots of carrot plants, and the wide variety of fruits, such as apples, berries, and tomatoes. Plants Feed Me explores the different types of seeds we eat— beans, nuts, rice, and even how wheat is ground into flour and used to make many other types of food. Smiling children pick fruits and vegetables, and learn how plants grow from seeds, stretching toward the sky for sun and into the earth for nutrients. This celebration of fruits, vegetables, and more is sure to get kids interested in what's on their plates!

"Grounded in science and made real with the often heartbreaking and inspiring words of parents who have been there, Dr. Rowell helps readers understand and overcome feeding challenges, from simple picky eating to entrenched food obsession, oral motor and developmental delays, "feeding clinic failures," and more" --Cover, p. 4.

Some of today's leading women writers speak out on the subject of weight and the obsession with body image in a collection of essays that includes Caroline Leavitt's writings on eating and grief, Whitney Otto on having a mother who was a Weight Watchers lecturer, and works by Joyce Maynard, Laurie Notaro, Ann Hood, Kate Harding, and others. Original. 30,000 first printing.

Identity crises, consumerism, and star-crossed teenage love in a futuristic society where people connect to the Internet via feeds implanted in their brains. This new edition contains new back matter and a refreshed cover. A National Book Award finalist.

Location-based stories from the Scripps National Spelling Bee take kids on a vocabulary- and spelling-filled road trip across the U.S.