Berthoud Community Library District

As Ms. Frizzle leads the way, the class takes an action-packed journey through Arnold's digestive system (For lunch), a pulsating excursion through Ralphie's bloodstream (Inside Ralphie) and an exciting exploration through the Ralphiebot Robot to learn about bones, joints and muscles (Flexes its muscles).

"The new publication is designed to deliver an informative, joyful experience to readers, giving them useful and entertaining pet information in every issue. Paw Print is a companion to DailyPaws.com, which launched in 2020 as Meredith’s digital brand, publishing high-quality pet-care content. Mars Petcare will serve as launch sponsor." -- from fipp.com

"Why has music so often served as an accomplice to transcendent expressions of gender? Why did the query "is he musical?" become code, in the twentieth century, for "is he gay?" Why is music so inherently queer? For Sasha Geffen, the answers lie, in part, in music's intrinsic quality of subliminal expression, which, through paradox and contradiction, allows rigid gender roles to fall away in a sensual and ambiguous exchange between performer and listener....

"How do you "soup up" a hot rod anyway? Spark early readers' natural curiosity about cool rides with this inquiry-based nonfiction approach to hot rods. Originally, hot rods were built for drag racing. Drivers would take an average car, like a 1932 Ford roadster, and chop it up to make it lighter and more powerful. Windshields, fenders, and bumpers were just dead weight. People still race all kinds of hot rods. Appeal to budding racers with this question-and-answer...

A gripping business narrative and scientific thriller about what it takes to bring a wonder drug to market?and save countless lives. For Blood and Money tells the little-known story of how an upstart biotechnology company created a one-in-a-million cancer drug, and how the core team?denied their share of the profits?went and did it again. In this epic saga of money and science, veteran financial journalist Nathan Vardi explains how the invention...

"Kathleen O'Shea didn't set out looking for connections with women on death row. She wanted information about them--who they are, the ways in which they live from day to day. "I was writing a sociological reference book," she tells us, "a fairly safe, fairly emotionless endeavor." As she got to know the incarcerated women she was studying, however, what became clear to her were not their differences, but how, in so many ways, she and the women in...

A collection of ninety-five folktales from North and South Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, Arkansas, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, Texas, Louisiana, and Alabama.

Leaving Home brings together three previously published short pieces, each dealing with a variation on the theme of leaving home. The first, "Weights and measures," deals with the tragic loss of a child; the second is a non-fiction letter Picoult wrote to her eldest son as he left for college; and "Ritz" tells the story of a mother who takes the vacation all mothers need sometime.

"There is a competitive advantage out there, arguably more powerful than any other. Is it superior strategy? Faster innovation? Smarter employees? No, New York Times best-selling author, Patrick Lencioni, argues that the seminal difference between successful companies and mediocre ones has little to do with what they know and how smart they are and more to do with how healthy they are. In this book, Lencioni brings together his vast experience and...