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On some days, seven-year old Julie feels like she's living in a Fun House. Hers is a topsy-turvy world where the toaster sprouts a toothbrush, and a watermelon gets dressed up in pink underpants for Fourth of July! But on other days, Julie struggles with understanding why her Halloween trick-or-treating got cancelled, or why Grandma can't remember her name. Julie is struggling with understanding her grandmother's Alzheimer's disease. Authors Max Wallack and Carolyn Given believe that no child is too young to learn about this disease, or how to participate in providing safe care for their...

Julia nació con una lesión neurológica irreversible. Meses antes de que se cumpla el plazo fatal que le pronosticaron, decide relatar en un diario sus dos años de vida. Una visión del mundo provocadora e insolente, que sorprende desde la primera línea por su percepción tan extraordinariamente peculiar, fresca e irónica, que convierte sus palabras en un torrente de vida y humor.

Describes the physical characteristics of honeybees, where they are found, their behavior and social interactions, and a brief history of beekeeping.

As a successful former slave, Clara Brown used her money to help other freed slaves get a new start in life. In 1859 Clara bought her own freedom and headed west to Colorado to find her daughter, who was sold when she was just a little girl. Clara didn't find her daughter there, but she did get rich. The people she helped became her family, and she became known as "Aunt" Clara Brown.