A guide to creating public art with earth presents accounts of various projects carried out by young people around the country, and step-by-step instructions on such artworks as earthen bird-houses, model villages, sculptural benches, playground structures, murals, labyrinths and sundials. Includes a simplified approach to drawing and design, as well as instructions for locating and mixing materials; collaborative methods; philosophical perspectives; and resources.

Dig in to this vibrant picture book that celebrates all the surprises found down in the dirt! I dig in the dirt...and find a seed. Seed waits. I dig in the dirt...and find a spider. Spider runs. Explore all of the creepy, crawly, dirty, muddy, green, and growing things that can be found outside in the garden. From pill bugs to worms to leafy green sprouts, young readers will love discovering the muddy garden habitat within the pages of this book—and outside in their own backyards! This sweet and playful celebration of outdoor exploration is a perfect read aloud for story time.

This full-color celebration of communities engaged in creative cultural expression profiles nine exemplary grassroots arts projects depicting an intersection of creativity with love of place. Stories range from children building an African-inspired mud facade on their Oregon middle school to an annual blessing-procession and festival in North Philadelphia that brings to life dozens of the most depressed blocks in urban America. Other regions represented include Minneapolis, Boston, Berkeley, rural Maine, San Francisco, the New York Bronx, and Vancouver, Canada. Community-based arts resources are sited throughout. Works of Heart offers a compendium of multicultural human-interest stories that will inspire and inform both community development professionals and citizen activists. Among those profiled are Lily Yeh and the Village of Arts and Humanities, Clara Wainwright and the Faith Quilts Project, Dolly Hopkins and Public Dreams, and the Beehive Collective.

Discusses the science of dirt, discussing where it is found, what it is made from, how it forms, and how it is used.

The tombstones are one of two of the last remaining structures of the Will County Poor Farm that opened its doors in 1850. The Will County Poor Farm became an institution that relied on self supported resources in order to provide relief to hundreds of the county's less fortunate, mentally and terminally ill, elderly, and orphaned children.

A startling, provocative collection from the best under-18 writers and artists in America. Astonishing. Remarkable. Perceptive. These are just three of the adjectives that could be applied to the work in this collection. Drawn from the winners of the 1999, 2000, and 2001 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, this anthology is a groundbreaking document of voices and visions from the front lines of today's youth.

A Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by Good Morning America, W, Nylon, SheReads, and LitHub “We count on our best young fiction writers to bring us news from the digital nervous system. Honor Levy . . . does so with special bite and élan.” —Dwight Garner, The New York Times From groundbreaking debut author Honor Levy, stories to delight and ensnare Walking the wire between imagination and confession, My First Book marks the arrival of an electric new talent. Honor Levy’s uniquely riveting voice emerges from the chaos of coming of age in Generation Z. Never far from a digital interface, her characters grapple with formative political, existential, and romantic experiences in a web-drenched society on the brink of collapse. Inventive, ambitious, and frequently surreal, the stories of My First Book are a mirrorball onto the world as it is. Levy illuminates what it is to be at once adorable, special, heavily medicated, consistently panicked, and completely sincere. One protagonist accompanies a girl with too many teeth through an abortion, while another discovers the infinite nature of love, a third reminisces about other sunsets that were “pinker, like way pinker,” and another encounters God in a downtown arcade. To find and keep faith is the order of the day—but how?