Charlie, the Great Dane, wants to help his family find the missing tablet. But how can he do that? He's too big and Paws, the family cat, dislikes anything associated with him, including the quails. Sara's misplaced her tablet, and even though she's looked all over the house, it's vanished. She's learning times tables and misses her favorite math game. If she doesn't learn her times tables, she'll fail math. Charlie's determined not to let that happen. Besides, he hates when his humans are sad and figures out a way to help. He sneaks his Quail Buddies into the house to search for the missing tablet. They soon realize Paws wants his Buddies for lunch! The group continues their search, covering every inch of the house. Running out of time, Charlie loses hope of finding the missing tablet, but his Buddies push for one more organized search. Will they find the missing tablet in time, or will it be lost forever?

Four hilarious stories, two inventive brothers, one irresistible story! Join Charlie and Mouse as they talk to lumps, take the neighborhood to a party, sell some rocks, and invent the bedtime banana. With imagination and humor, Laurel Snyder and Emily Hughes paint a lively picture of brotherhood that children will relish in a format perfect for children not quite ready for chapter books.

The Newberry Medalist brings humor and heart to this story of a Civil War–era boy struggling to do right in the face of history’s cruelest evils. Twelve-year-old Charlie is down on his luck: His sharecropper father just died, and Cap’n Buck—the most fearsome man in Possum Moan, South Carolina—has come to collect a debt. Fearing for his life, Charlie strikes a deal with Cap’n Buck and agrees to track down some folks accused of stealing from the cap’n and his boss. It’s not too bad of a bargain for Charlie . . . until he comes face-to-face with the fugitives and discovers their true identities. Torn between his guilty conscience and his survival instinct, Charlie needs to figure out his next move—and soon. It’s only a matter of time before Cap’n Buck catches on. Praise for The Journey of Little Charlie A National Book Award Finalist “This is a compelling and ugly story for middle-grade readers told with genuine care. Little Charlie is a product of his Southern upbringing, yet in Curtis’s skillful hands he learns the world is not as he’d thought . . . Christopher Paul Curtis does it again.” —Historical Novel Society “A characteristically lively and complex addition to the historical fiction of the era from Curtis.” —Kirkus Reviews

Charlie, the Great Dane, wants to help his family find the missing tablet. But how can he do that? He's too big and Paws, the family cat, dislikes anything associated with him, including the quails. Sara's misplaced her tablet, and even though she's looked all over the house, it's vanished. She's learning times tables and misses her favorite math game. If she doesn't learn her times tables, she'll fail math. Charlie's determined not to let that happen. Besides, he hates when his humans are sad and figures out a way to help. He sneaks his Quail Buddies into the house to search for the missing tablet. They soon realize Paws wants his Buddies for lunch! The group continues their search, covering every inch of the house. Running out of time, Charlie loses hope of finding the missing tablet, but his Buddies push for one more organized search. ​ Will they find the missing tablet in time, or is it lost forever?

Charles Henry Tweddell (1869-1921) was one of several thousand Canadian soldiers who fought with British forces in the Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902). A methodical diarist, Tweddell recounts his year of service from the time he left Quebec City until his return. Tweddell's diary captures the sounds, sights, and stench of war, its friendships and rivalries, its routine and boredom, its death, disease, and injury. Readers are taken into the battlefield and the British military’s disastrous medical services and facilities, and his month-long sight-seeing sick leave in London. Tweddell's diary suggests the allure of late nineteenth-century warfare, an appeal that drew many Boer War veterans, Tweddell included, to volunteer for service in the Great War that followed. Carman Miller's introduction presents a concise analysis of the Boer War's origins and its appeal to Canadian volunteers, and places the diarist within Quebec City's distinct society of overlapping religious, ethnic, and linguistic identities. Tweddell's diary, presented here in full for the first time, offers a rare and fascinating first-person account of Charlie's first war. It is a privileged insight into the fabric of late nineteenth-century military life, its opportunities, and personal costs, seen through the eyes of a perceptive observer and sympathetic raconteur.

A shocking true-crime story of America's jock culture and the hidden world of unrestrained adolescent sexuality in one seemingly idyllic suburban town. In March 1989 a group of teenage boys lured a retarded girl into a basement in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, and gang-raped her. Glen Ridge was the kind of peaceful, affluent suburb many Americans dream about. The rapists were its most popular high school athletes. And although rumors of the crime quickly spread through the town, weeks passed before anyone saw fit to report it to the police. What made these boys capable of brutalizing a girl that some of them had known since childhood? Why did so many of their elders deny the rape and rally around its perpetrators? To solve this riddle, the Edgar award-winning author Bernard Lefkowitz conducted years of research and more than two hundred interviews. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year A Los Angeles Times Prize Finalist An Edgar Award Finalist

The nineteenth edition of this authoritative text continues the legacy of its earlier editions and provides a comprehensive coverage of many advanced accounting topics. Detailed fundamentals provide a natural grounding and help in gaining accounting skills and knowledge. The book is aimed at CA/CS and other professional courses such as CPT, PCC, ICWA and others. The book could be used to great advantage by students of B.Com (Hons.) and accounting professionals.