Jason Chin

Embarrassed about gathering watercress from a roadside ditch, a girl learns to appreciate her Chinese heritage after learning why the plant is so important to her parents.

Through email exchanges with her cousin, best friend, parents, and school counselor, twelve-year-old Jenna reveals a growing awareness of the causes of her emotional overeating and what she is doing to take control.

"A book exploring the world of the very small, delving deep into the microscopic spaces just beneath our skin"--

An island is about to be born- one that in time will become the home of plants and animals that exist nowhere else on Earth. This book is the biography of a Galápagos island- from birth, through adolescence, to adulthood, and beyond.

"A non-fiction introduction to the massive scale of the known universe"--

"A book about the rich ecosystem that springs up around the death of a whale in the deep sea"--