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Table of Contents ADVENTURE . 1 REFERENCE . 12 BIRDING . 1 SCIENCE . 13 CHILDREN’S . 1-5 SPORTS . 14-15 Living Creatures . 3 TRAVEL . 16-17 Sports . 4 US HISTORY. 18-20 US History . 4-5 WRITING. 21 ECOLOGY . 5 Nature Writing . 21 HEALTHY LIVING . 6-10 Travel Writing . 21 Martial Arts . 9-10 YOGA. 21 NAUTICAL. 10 OUTDOOR & NATURE. 10-12 Living Creatures . 12 Ordering Information New Accounts, For accounts wishing to be Established Accounts Canadian Orders Sales Representatives serviced by the New York Order Dept. and Inquiries & General Information sales staff call: Random House, Inc. Random House of Canada, Inc. Random House, Inc. 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A Mystery in Everglades National Park A Mystery in Glacier National Park Carl Hiaasen Gloria Skurzynski Gloria Skurzynski Alexander Graham Bell’s and Alane Ferguson and Alane Ferguson You know it’s going to be a rough Talking Machine summer when you spend Father’s Day Monica Kulling The Landon family is Southbound— Grizzly cubs are disappearing from visiting your dad in the local lockup. headed for Florida to investigate a Glacier National Park, and the Landom It’s 1876 and the whole country is cele- Noah’s dad is sure that the owner of mysterious illness plaguing endangered family must figure out why! But for Jack, brating the 100th birthday of the United the Coral Queen casino boat is flushing manatees in Everglades National Park. the real mystery is his sister Ashley’s States. The biggest party is in Philadelphia his bilge tanks into the ocean. He can’t Who was the stranger in the speedboat strange behavior. Jack’s efforts to unravel at the World’s Fair where the latest and prove it though, and so he decides that who snatched Jack’s camera? Join the the truth lead to a pulse-pounding greatest inventions are on display for all sinking the boat will make an effective heart-stopping chase through a maze adventure that brings the Landon kids to see. Alexander Graham Bell is headed statement. Right. Now Noah is deter- of mangrove islands to find out! face to face with an enraged grizzly. to the fair to demonstrate his invention mined to succeed where his dad failed. Full-color throughout, 48 pages. Full-color throughout, 160 pages. —a talking machine he calls the tele- He will prove that the Coral Queen phone. But will anyone come to see him 978-1-4263-0093-6 978-1-4263-0095-0 is dumping illegally…somehow. 3 5 3 5 at the worlds most important science $4.99/5.99C • PB • 5 ⁄16 x 7 ⁄8 $4.99/5.99C • PB • 5 ⁄16 x 7 ⁄8 272 pages. fair? Full-color throughout, 48 pages. NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CHILDREN’S | October NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CHILDREN’S | October 978-0-375-84185-9 3 978-0-375-83115-7 $8.99/11.99C • PB • 5 ⁄16 x 8 $3.99/4.99C • PB • 6 x 9 RH CHILDREN’S | August RH CHILDREN’S | August Planets, Stars, and Galaxies A Practical Guide to Monsters Sadie the Air Mail Pilot The People Could Fly A Visual Encyclopedia of Our Universe Nina Hess Kellie Strom Virginia Hamilton Written and Illustrated by David Aguilar How do you trick a troll? Do vampires Sadie is a brave and fearless pilot who With two major awards (The New York sleep? Why worry about yuan-ti? Just overcomes the elements—and even a Times Best Illustrated Books award The farthest of our universe captured in time for Halloween, this lavishly plane crash—to deliver the mail. Like and a Coretta Scott King Honor Book in atlas form for young readers. illustrated guide showcases the spooky, all the dedicated Air Mail pilots, she is award) and now the addition of a CD Planets, Stars, and Galaxies is the space unexpected, and always fascinating kept busy by the arrival of never-ending narration of the tale, James Earl Jones’s book that pushes the boundaries of world of monsters. The sequel to sacks of mail and the Air Mail HQ chief sonorous bass mixes with the lilting man’s ultimate frontier. The engaging, The New York Times bestselling who barks orders at his staff. But that voice of Virginia Hamilton to add a educational text, written in collaboration A Practical Guide to Dragons. won’t stop Sadie from getting it deliv- whole new dimension of drama. with National Geographic experts, Full-color throughout, 80 pages. ered.