Best Selling Books by John Rocco

A young working-class teen fights to save his family’s diner after his father is lost in a fishing-boat accident. When his dad goes missing in a fishing-boat accident, fourteen-year-old Jake refuses to think he may have lost his father forever. But suddenly, nothing seems certain in Jake’s future, and now his family’s diner may be repossessed by loan sharks. In Narragansett Bay, scrabbling out a living as a quahogger isn’t easy, but with the help of some local clammers, Jake is determined to work hard and earn enough money to ensure his family’s security and save the diner in time. Told with cinematic suspense and a true compassion for the characters, Swim That Rock is a fast-paced coming-of-age story that beautifully and evocatively captures the essence of coastal Rhode Island life, the struggles of blue-collar family dynamics, and the dreams of one boy to come into his own.

This collection of writings features interviews, concert reviews, album reviews and critical essays of The Doors'' career.

After a devastating hurricane, a young boy asks for help rebuilding the neighborhood dock, his favorite place in the world, but finds that his neighbors need help first.

When the warrior Chang challenges young Fu to a duel, Fu panics. His only hope is that the Master will train him, just as he’s trained all the young warriors of the village. But instead of teaching Fu to fight, the Master teaches him…to pour tea. Fu learns purpose, flow and patience in the process, but will it be enough to defeat the mighty Chang? /DIVDIVWith his signature breathtaking art, John Rocco has created a modern parable full of adventure, heart, humor, and a gentle message about the importance of focus and finding joy in simple tasks.

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • YALSA EXCELLENCE IN NONFICTION FINALIST • A ROBERT F. SIBERT HONOR BOOK This beautifully illustrated, oversized guide to the people and technology of the moon landing by award-winning author/illustrator John Rocco (illustrator of the Percy Jackson series) is a must-have for space fans, classrooms, and tech geeks. Everyone knows of Neil Armstrong''s famous first steps on the moon. But what did it really take to get us there? The Moon landing is one of the most ambitious, thrilling, and dangerous ventures in human history. This exquisitely researched and illustrated book tells the stories of the 400,000 unsung heroes--the engineers, mathematicians, seamstresses, welders, and factory workers--and their innovations and life-changing technological leaps forward that allowed NASA to achieve this unparalleled accomplishment. From the shocking launch of the Russian satellite Sputnik to the triumphant splashdown of Apollo 11, Caldecott Honor winner John Rocco answers every possible question about this world-altering mission. Each challenging step in the space race is revealed, examined, and displayed through stunning diagrams, experiments, moments of crisis, and unforgettable human stories. Explorers of all ages will want to pore over every page in this comprehensive chronicle detailing the grandest human adventure of all time!

Every super hero gets his powers from somewhere. The young hero of this book, Rocco, thinks his abilities come from his shock of red hair, and the longer it gets, the stronger he becomes. He even has a posse of super friends with wild hair of their own. Our hero is unstoppable--until the day he''s dragged to the super evil villain''s lair and robbed of his powers. How will he face his friends? Will he ever regain his super hero-ness? A girl who has been watching all along offers the gang a chance to save the day and get their groove back. With bold images that burst with energy from white backgrounds and narration as earnest as Superman himself, SUPER HAIR-O AND THE BARBER OF DOOM is a feel-good and funny book for emergent comic book fans and parents who grew up on them.

★凱迪克銀牌獎《停電了！》作者約翰．洛可全新力作★ ★美國兒童青少年圖書館協會選書 ★美國亞馬遜網路書店讀者5顆星推薦 ★「好書大家讀」第85梯次入選好書 ★好書大家讀2023年度最佳少年兒童讀物獎 ★文化部第46次中小學讀物選介 ▋一場颶風來襲，展示出社區團結合作的力量與精神，以及彼此互助重建美好家園的可貴。 ▋為了守護心愛的碼頭，小男孩勇敢面對逆境，努力修復殘破的碼頭，他的堅持打動了身邊的人，紛紛伸出援手，和他一起重建碼頭。與小男孩一同成長，一同感受團結的力量，帶著勇氣走向更美好的未來！ ▋改編自作者童年的真實經歷，質樸動人的故事，充滿勇氣、團結與希望；具有戲劇張力的細膩插畫，以及巧妙多變的分鏡設計，帶給讀者身歷其境的閱讀體驗。 又破又舊的社區碼頭，是小男孩最喜歡的地方。在這裡，他可以游泳、釣魚，看小魚在岩石間游來游去。但是，颶風來了！經過一整夜狂風暴雨無情的肆虐，颶風怪獸摧毀了社區，也摧毀了男孩最愛的碼頭！小小的他只能請鄰居們幫忙，但大家都忙著重建家園，沒有人有空……小男孩有辦法靠自己的力量修補好殘破的碼頭嗎？是否有人會伸出援手呢？ 凱迪克銀牌獎《停電了！》作者約翰．洛可全新力作，再次以童年時期的真實經歷為靈感，打造了這個令人動容的故事。他以精湛純熟的技法（鉛筆、水彩融合數位媒材），創作出一幅幅充滿戲劇張力的寫實插畫，加上巧妙多變的分鏡設計，展現出社區團結的力量與小男孩內心的轉折。 約翰．洛可以孩子的眼光描繪颶風（颱風）過境時的真實情景，透過主角小男孩的觀察、心聲與行動，帶領孩子瞭解自然災害的威力，學習科普知識（書中附有颶風形成與碼頭組成部分的小知識頁）和災後應變措施，帶給孩子面對逆境的信心與勇氣！

Blizzard is based on John Rocco''s childhood experience during the now infamous Blizzard of 1978, which brought fifty-three inches of snow to his town in Rhode Island. Told with a brief text and dynamic illustrations, the book opens with a boy''s excitement upon seeing the first snowflake fall outside his classroom window. It ends with the neighborhood''s immense relief upon seeing the first snowplow break through on their street. In between the boy watches his familiar landscape transform into something alien, and readers watch him transform into a hero who puts the needs of others first. John uses an increasing amount of white space in his playful images, which include a gatefold spread of the boy''s expedition to the store. This book about the wonder of a winter storm is as delicious as a mug of hot cocoa by the fire on a snowy day. Praise for Super Hair-o and the Barber of Doom "With a light, humorous touch, Rocco reveals that sometimes the Kryptonite is all in your head." --Publishers Weekly "Bold, colorful pen-and-ink illustrations burst with power from each spread in comic-book style. This story will make a feel-good impression on budding comic book/superhero fans." --School Library Journal Praise for Blackout "The plot line, conveyed with just a few sentences, is simple enough, but the dramatic illustrations illuminate the story...Not all young readers will have experienced a blackout, but this engaging snapshot could easily have them wishing for one." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "The colorful pictures work beautifully with the book''s design. Rocco uses comic-strip panels and a brief text to convey the atmosphere of a lively and almost magical urban landscape. Great bedtime reading for a soft summer night." --School Library Journal (starred review) 2012 Caldecott Honor BookNew York Times Notable BookWall Street Journal Best Book of the YearPublisher''s Weekly Best Book of the YearSchool Library Journal Best Book of the YearKirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year -- Praise for Fu Finds the Way "Rocco''s story flows smoothly and his illustrations are rich and appealing..." --Kirkus Reviews

Whiskey Jankowitz was a private detective. HARDBOILED WHISKEY is the story of his life, loves, cases, and blackouts. It is also a Private Detective Poem Novel filled with hardboiled poems, hardboiled femme fatales, and hardboiled eggs. Whiskey for all!

One hot summer night in the city, all the power goes out. The TV shuts off and a boy wails, "Mommm!" His sister can no longer use the phone, Mom can''t work on her computer, and Dad can''t finish cooking dinner. What''s a family to do? When they go up to the roof to escape the heat, they find the lights--in stars that can be seen for a change--and so many neighbors it''s like a block party in the sky! On the street below, people are having just as much fun--talking, rollerblading, and eating ice cream before it melts. The boy and his family enjoy being not so busy for once. They even have time to play a board game together. When the electricity is restored, everything can go back to normal . . . but not everyone likes normal. The boy switches off the lights, and out comes the board game again. Using a combination of panels and full bleed illustrations that move from color to black-and-white and back to color, John Rocco shows that if we are willing to put our cares aside for a while, there is party potential in a summer blackout.

When a busy family''s activities come to a halt because of a blackout, they find they enjoy spending time together and not being too busy for once.

AENEAS IS FROM QUEENS is about the classical epic tradition and quitting smoking and Queens and teaching literature and drinking and running and strip clubs and porn stars and calzones and loss and movies and ghosts and ecstasy and guilt and crime and trips to the land of the dead and secret knowledge and heroes one and all.

Wonder Curl

The World Wide Web has become the standard mechanism for information distribution and scientific collaboration on the Internet. This dissertation research explores a suite of techniques for discovering relevant dynamic sources in a specific domain of interest and for managing Web data effectively. We first explore techniques for discovery and automatic classification of dynamic Web sources. Our approach utilizes a service class model of the dynamic Web that allows the characteristics of interesting services to be specified using a service class description. To promote effective Web data management, the Page Digest Web document encoding eliminates tag redundancy and places structure, content, tags, and attributes into separate containers, each of which can be referenced in isolation or in conjunction with the other elements of the document. The Page Digest Sentinel system leverages our unique encoding to provide efficient and scalable change monitoring for arbitrary Web documents through document compartmentalization and semantic change request grouping. Finally, we present XPack, an XML document compression system that uses a containerized view of an XML document to provide both good compression and efficient querying over compressed documents. XPack''s queryable XML compression format is general-purpose, does not rely on domain knowledge or particular document structural characteristics for compression, and achieves better query performance than standard query processors using text-based XML. Our research expands the capabilities of existing dynamic Web techniques, providing superior service discovery and classification services, efficient change monitoring of Web information, and compartmentalized document handling. DynaBot is the first system to combine a service class view of the Web with a modular crawling architecture to provide automated service discovery and classification. The Page Digest Web document encoding represents Web documents efficiently by separating the individual characteristics of the document. The Page Digest Sentinel change monitoring system utilizes the Page Digest document encoding for scalable change monitoring through efficient change algorithms and intelligent request grouping. Finally, XPack is the first XML compression system that delivers compression rates similar to existing techniques while supporting better query performance than standard query processors using text-based XML.

Two seemingly unrelated phone calls send Private Investigator Pete Pepper on a dual quest. Find the murderer of caller number one, his friend George Gianotti, and locate the missing husband of caller number two, reclusive millionaire Emily Bradshaw. Pete is shocked when he eventually discovers that both calls originated from the Bradshaw mansion. Even more shocking are the five brutal murders heencounters along the way. Ultimately, a box of cigars, a can of paint and a drawing by his precocious nephew Gianni lead Pete to a chilling climax on a frozen Belleville lake.