In this National Book Award-nominated novel, a rag-tag group of traveling Shakespearean actors struggle to survive in a landscape that has been decimated by a global pandemic that wipes out 99% of the population. In flashbacks, members of the group recall their lives during the pandemic and what it took for them to survive, with some surprising connections.
Jack the rabbit becomes a superhero in this Sago Mini exploration app. In the same discovery style as Forest Flyer and Ocean Swimmer, Superheroes takes place in a looped world (if you just keep going left, you’ll end up back where you started), but has 30 different animations to discover along the way.
On a wet day in 1986, businesswoman Laura Schroff passed Maurice, an 11-year-boy panhandling for spare change. She walked on, but something made her stop and go back. That day, recounted in this true story, marked the beginning of a life-changing friendship that enriched both Schroff and Maurice, and underscores how one moment of kindness can have lasting benefits.
Play with DNA and watch your monster change before your eyes!
In this unconventional and funny novel, a teenage girl assembles a mixed collection of documents to try to solve the disappearance of her mother, a former award-winning architect who found herself increasingly at odds with her life in Seattle.
In this unconventional love story, scientist Don sets out to overcome his Asperger’s syndrome and find the Perfect Wife by concocting an exhaustive, mathematically precise questionnaire. And then he meets Rosie, who should be all wrong for him but for some reason seems just right.
Volcanoes and earthquakes and avalanches, oh my! If you have a kid who is curious about explosions, this is a great app for you. Learn how these huge geologic events (plus other things like erosion) change this planet we all live on.
Three dimensional mazes with optical illusion solutions reminiscent of the artwork of M.C. Escher elevate this app above other puzzle apps. The ethereal mood and gorgeous color scheme are just icing on the cake. This is one of those rare apps that are equally engaging for parents and children. As we played it together, my son (4 years old) would often discover the solution before I did (I am not surprised by the results of this scientific study).
Discover the periodic table of elements (well, sorta) by running experiments on little cute cartoon representations of all the different elements.
An earlier written sequel of To Kill a Mockingbird set in the 1950s, Go Set a Watchman casts the beloved characters of Scout and Atticus in a new light, and poses the question of how far we have really come in the battle against discrimination.
