Author: Margaret G. Spinelli
Publisher: American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.
Keywords: mothers, kill, perspectives, legal, psychosocial, infanticide
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2002-10-01
List price: $78.00
ISBN-10: 1585620971
ISBN-13: 9781585620975

Maternal infanticide, or the murder of a child in its first year of life by its mother, elicits sorrow, anger, horror, and outrage. But the perpetrator is often a victim, too. The editor of this revealing work asks us to reach beyond rage, stretch the limits of compassion, and enter the minds of mothers who kill their babies-with the hope that advancing the knowledge base and stimulating inquiry in this neglected area of maternal-infant research will save young lives. Written to help remedy today’s dearth of up-to-date, research-based literature, this unique volume brings together a mult

Author: Jerry Spinelli
Publisher: Laurel Leaf
Keywords: circle, readers, stargirl
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2004-05-11
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0440416779
ISBN-13: 9780440416777

"She was homeschooling gone amok." "She was an alien." "Her parents were circus acrobats." These are only a few of the theories concocted to explain Stargirl Caraway, a new 10th grader at Arizona’s Mica Area High School who wears pioneer dresses and kimonos to school, strums a ukulele in the cafeteria, laughs when there are no jokes, and dances when there is no music. The whole school, not exactly a "hotbed of nonconformity," is stunned by her, including our 16-year-old narrator Leo Borlock: "She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. She was the faintest scent of a cactus flower,

Author: Jerry Spinelli
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Reader
Keywords: eggs
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2008-04-01
List price: $5.99
ISBN-10: 0316166472
ISBN-13: 9780316166478

Eggs is a quirky and moving novel about two very complicated, damaged children. David has recently lost his mother to a freak accident, his salesman father is constantly on the road, and he is letting his anger out on his grandmother. Primrose lives with her unstable, childlike, fortuneteller mother, and the only evidence of the father she never knew is a framed picture. Despite their age difference (David is 9, Primrose is 13), they forge a tight yet tumultuous friendship, eventually helping each other deal with what is missing in their lives.

Author: Diomidis Spinelli
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Keywords: perspective, source, open, reading, code
Number of Pages: 528
Published: 2003-06-06
List price: $64.99
ISBN-10: 0201799405
ISBN-13: 9780201799408

This book is a unique and essential reference that focuses upon the reading and comprehension of existing software code. While code reading is an important task faced by the vast majority of students, it has been virtually ignored as a discipline by existing references. The book fills this need with a practical presentation of all important code concepts, form, structure, and syntax that a student is likely to encounter. The concepts are supported by examples taken from real-world open source software projects. The focus upon reading code (rather than developing and implementing programs from

Author: Jerry Spinelli
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Keywords: journal, stargirl
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2007-08-14
List price: $9.99
ISBN-10: 0375840567
ISBN-13: 9780375840562

FOR EVERY STARGIRL fan, here’s an inviting diary: 160 journal pages, each decorated with a quote from Stargirl or Love, Stargirl.

Author: Eileen Spinelli
Publisher: Harcourt Children’s Books
Keywords: wave, heat
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2007-07-01
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 015216779X
ISBN-13: 9780152167790

The mercury is climbing in Lumberville, and the folks are doing everything they can to keep cool. Officer McGinnis spends the day in a cold bath, Lottie Mims does her housework in her bathing suit, and Abigail and Ralphie Blue sell ice cubes. When the temperature refuses to relent, the entire community seeks solace by the river--where everyone dreams of cool relief.      A cast of quirky characters and lots of playful details from two celebrated picture-book talents make this heat wave look like fun! (20070601)

Author: Jerry Spinelli
Publisher: HarperCollins
Keywords: smiles
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2009-08-25
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0064471977
ISBN-13: 9780064471978

Everything changes the day ninth-grader Will Tuppence learns one startling fact: protons-those tiny atomic particles, the building-blocks to the building-blocks of life-can die. The one thing that was so certain in this world to Will has an expiration date. And Will′s carefully planned-out life? Not so certain, either. Newbery Medalist Jerry Spinelli tips Will′s world on its side to show that the beauty and wonder of life is in not knowing what comes next. Ages: 10+