Best Selling Books by Sydelle Kramer

Called the "Great Pathfinder", Daniel Boone is most famous for opening up the West to settlers through Kentucky. A symbol of America''s pioneering spirit Boone was a skilled outdoorsman and an avid reader although he never attended school. Sydelle Kramer skillfully recounts Boone''s many adventures such as the day he rescued his own daughter from kidnappers.

Text and photographs provide an introduction to submarines.

A biography of the youngest player, and the first person of color, ever to win the Masters Golf Tournament.

Zack and his father go to Hawaii where Zack has an unfortunate encounter with an angry volcano goddess.

Describes how and why such men as Bill Russell, Wilt Chamberlain, and Larry Bird became great basketball players.

This book is a biography of Ty Cobb, baseball''s first superstar.

Provides profiles of the women who influenced the history of the United States as wives of its presidents.

An account of Alaska''s grueling, 1200-mile Iditarod dog sled race, recently won by a woman for the first time.

Kramer features brief profiles of such hard-hitting baseball players as Honus Wagner, Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Ted Williams, and Hank Aaron. Full-color illustrations.

Describes the lives of noted basketball players David Robinson, Charles Barkley, Hakeem Olajuwon, and Shaquille O''Neal.

Reading is easy to tackle with this easy reader covering the styles, personalities, and big moments of gridiron greats Troy Aikman, Barry Sanders, Jerry Rice, and Deion Sanders.

Presents brief sketches of four top female figure skaters: Kristi Yamaguchi, Nancy Kerrigan, Oksana Baiul, and Michelle Kwan.

The thrilling story of the women of Team USA and their climb to the top.

Since the 1960s, recurring cycles of political activism over youth crime have motivated efforts to remove adolescents from the juvenile court. Periodic surges of crime—youth violence in the 1970s, the spread of gangs in the 1980s, and more recently, epidemic gun violence and drug-related crime—have spurred laws and policies aimed at narrowing the reach of the juvenile court. Despite declining juvenile crime rates, every state in the country has increased the number of youths tried and punished as adults. Research in this area has not kept pace with these legislative developments. There has never been a detailed, sociolegal analytic book devoted to this topic. In this important collection, researchers discuss policy, substantive procedural and empirical dimensions of waivers, and where the boundaries of the courts lie. Part 1 provides an overview of the origins and development of law and contemporary policy on the jurisdiction of adolescents. Part 2 examines the effects of jurisdictional shifts. Part 3 offers valuable insight into the developmental and psychological aspects of current and future reforms. Contributors: Donna Bishop, Richard Bonnie, M. A. Bortner, Elizabeth Cauffman, Linda Frost Clausel, Robert O. Dawson, Jeffrey Fagan, Barry Feld, Charles Frazier, Thomas Grisso, Darnell Hawkins, James C. Howell, Akiva Liberman, Richard Redding, Simon Singer, Laurence Steinberg, David Tanenhaus, Marjorie Zatz, and Franklin E. Zimring

Looks at the Apollo space program, and provides information on the problems faced by Apollo 13

Discusses the miscellaneous junk floating in space, how it got there, what effects it can have, and what can be done about it.

Dramatizes a variety of catastrophes and life-and-death situations, provides a list of possible routes of action, and explains which decisions would mean survival.

Discusses the life and hockey career of the man nicknamed "The Great One" and hailed as the best player in the history of the NHL.

Examines the careers and accomplishments of four superstar hockey goalkeepers: Dominik Hasek, Martin Brodeur, Patrick Roy, and Ed Belfour.

Did you know Bobby Orr was once considered too small to play hockey? Or that Jacques Plante was so poor as a kid, he had to learn how to knit? Hockey''s greatest players were kids once too! This exciting Step into Reading/reg/ book takes a look at the greatest players--from Gordie Howe to Bobby Hull to Wayne Gretzky--in one of the fastest, roughest, and most popular professional sports--ice hockey.

Wayne Gretzky, Eric Lindros, MArio lemieux, Patrick Roy ... they have no fear. They have no mercy. They are four of the greatest players in hockey today. Read all about them.

Relates the stories of five outstanding baseball pitchers, from Walter Johnson to Nolan Ryan.

A brother and sister share the excitement of a major league baseball game with their parents.

La vida del explorador Fernando de Magallanes, que fue de una niñez pobre a ser un explorador audaz que se lanzó a darle la vuelta al mundo.

Follows a wagon trail to California in 1848 as hundreds of pioneers endure great hardships while traveling 2,000 miles of wilderness.

Looks at the major achievements and moments of the sport, both on and off the field

Offers young readers the story of the celebrated pilot''s historic solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean and explains why his task was so challenging and its successful completion so incredible.