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  • Auditing Good Government in Africa

    Public Sector Reform, Professional Norms and the Development Discourse

    by M. Gustavson ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book gives a comprehensive overview of the literature on development in Sub-Saharan Africa, and challenges the notions of African public officials presented there. It focuses on public audit institutions and offers rich empirical research results, which contradicts many assumptions made in the literature on development in Sub-Saharan Africa. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • The Froggies Do NOT Want to Sleep

    by Adam Gustavson ...
    Illustrated by Adam Gustavson ...
    Prepare for a different kind of bedtime book--a zany, imaginative adventure to send your little froggies off to dreamland. Not since David Wiesner's Tuesday have frogs had so much fun!Why go to bed when you can play the accordion, dance underwater ballet, and hold burping contests with strange alien lifeforms? For every kid who ever came up with an outlandish excuse for why it can't be bedtime yet ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • Charlie Bumpers vs. the Teacher of the Year

    by Bill Harley ...
    Illustrated by Adam Gustavson ...
    Series Book 1 - Charlie Bumpers
    Charlie Bumpers's worst fear is confirmed: he has Mrs. Burke for fourth grade. How will he survive the strictest teacher in school?Shortly before school starts, Charlie Bumpers learns that he will be in Mrs. Burke's class. It doesn't matter that she's been named Teacher of the Year. He's still afraid of her. Last year when he was horsing around in the hall, he accidentally hit her in the head with ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Trouble with May Amelia

    by Jennifer L. Holm ...
    Illustrated by Adam Gustavson ...
    The long-awaited and highly anticipated sequel to the Newbery Honor winner Our Only May Amelia, by the bestselling and cherished author Jennifer Holm.May Amelia Jackson captured readers’ hearts in the Newbery Honor Book Our Only May Amelia. Now, after more than ten years, Jennifer Holm is bringing this beloved character back in a beautifully written story that’s both heartbreaking and hilarious ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Big Boy 4014 and the Steam Team

    The World's Largest Steam Engine Roars Back to Life!

    by Marsha Diane Arnold ...
    Illustrated by Adam Gustavson ...
    Junior Library Guild Gold Standard selection.A picture book about the restoration of Big Boy 4014, the world’s largest steam locomotive.In the 1940s, the ground rumbled as they thundered across the United States, 25 600-ton steam locomotives called Big Boys. These mammoth engines were built to pull trains transporting soldiers and freight, supporting the war effort.When less-expensive diesel ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Better Than You

    by Trudy Ludwig ...
    Illustrated by Adam Gustavson ...
    Jake's bragging is really starting to get to his neighbor Tyler. Tyler can't show Jake a basketball move, a school assignment, or a new toy without Jake saying he can do better. Tyler starts to wonder: Is something wrong with him? Is he really such a loser? Is Jake really better than him at everything? Or is Jake the one with the problem? With the help of his uncle Kevin, Tyler begins to ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Hillary Clinton: The Life of a Leader

    by Shana Corey ...
    Illustrated by Adam Gustavson ...
    Series series Step into Reading, Step 3
    Follow Hillary Clinton’s inspiring life of service in this Step 3 Biography Reader! After volunteering as a young child, she became a leader in school and college, championed women’s and children’s causes as a young lawyer and wife of a politician, and finally became a politician herself. She has been our First Lady, a U.S. senator, the secretary of state, and the first woman candidate nominated ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • King of the Tightrope

    When the Great Blondin Ruled Niagara

    by Donna Janell Bowman ...
    Illustrated by Adam Gustavson ...
    In 1859, The Great Blondin took the most dangerous tightrope walk of his career—a death-defying walk across Niagara Falls. History and STEAM combine for an edge-of-your-seat read.At the age of four, Jean-Francois Gravelet walked across his first balance beam. Later, he took to the tightrope like a spider to its web and climbed toward stardom. Though his feats became more and more marvelous, he ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • UFOhs!

    Mysteries in the Sky

    by Deborah Blumenthal, Ralph Blumenthal ...
    Illustrated by Adam Gustavson ...
    Series series Barbara Guth Worlds of Wonder Science Series for Young Readers
    UFOhs! Mysteries in the Sky is the first book to explore the strange, exciting, and unknown world of unidentified aerial phenomena for kids. UFOhs! cuts through speculation and pseudo-science to describe real phenomena as observed and documented by pilots, ship captains, scientists, and ordinary men, women, and children from around the world. Playful, probing, and beautifully illustrated, UFOhs! ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Rock and Roll Highway

    The Robbie Robertson Story

    by Sebastian Robertson ...
    Illustrated by Adam Gustavson ...
    Canadian guitarist and songwriter Robbie Robertson is known mainly for his central role in the musical group the Band. But how did he become one of *Rolling Stone'*s top 100 guitarists of all time? Written by his son, Sebastian, this is the story of a rock-and-roll legend's journey through music, beginning when he was taught to play guitar at nine years old on a Native American reservation. Rock ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Flip! How the Frisbee Took Flight

    by Margaret Muirhead ...
    Illustrated by Adam Gustavson ...
    This charming picture book biography about the inventor of the Frisbee follows the twists and turns of innovation and highlights the persistence it takes to succeed.Fred Morrison is credited with inventing this classic toy, but for centuries folks have been flipping for flying discs. Ancient Greeks flicked discs, and beginning in the 1920s, college kids at Yale University were tossing pie tins ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • Dirty Rats?

    by Darrin Lunde ...
    Illustrated by Adam Gustavson ...
    Nobody likes a rat. And we're not talking about a snitch here. We're talking about those disgusting bald-tailed rodents that scurry around alleys and in the subway. But, hold on . . . are rats really so bad? There are hundreds of rat species all around the world that defy common stereotypes. Rats help predators survive, allow plants to spread their seeds, and even contribute to medical research ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD