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|  | The Boy in the Burning House by Tim Wynne-Jones
It`s been two years since his father mysteriously disappeared, and Jim Hawkins is still having trouble dealing with the situation. Could his father have run off, or has something terrible happened to him? Then Jim meets Ruth Rose, the stepdaughter of his father`s childhood friend, who is now the local pastor, Father Fisher. Ruth Rose is obviously unstable, so when she confides to Jim that her her stepfather is a murderer, Jim doesn`t really believe her. However, as Jim gets to know Ruth Rose better he becomes desperate to know the truth--not only about Father Fisher but also about what happened to his own dad. AUTHOR: Tim Wynne-Jones
PUBLISHER: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, LLC
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction 
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 | What Every Parent Should Know about Learning Difficulties by Lawrence J. Greene
Description not available.Provides parents of children with learning difficulties the tools needed to overcome the challenges of learning blocks and overcrowded, uninformed school systems, profiling seventy learning obstacles while explaining how parents can convey their child's needs and condition to teachers. Original. AUTHOR: Lawrence J. Greene
PUBLISHER: Warner Books, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | The Wearing of the Green by Daryl Adair, Mike Cronin
For a few hours each year, millions of Irish and non-Irish commemorate the life of a 1500-year-old saint in a boisterous display of parading and revelry, festooned in the shamrock and emerald green.THE WEARING OF THE GREEN captures the dramatic story of how March 17 was transformed from a stuffy dinner for Ireland's religious elite to the world's most public ethnic festival. Long celebrated with more fanfare in New York than in Dublin, the holiday has been criticized for its loss of religious meaning, commercialism, and embarrassing rituals of drunkenness. But it has also served to unite Irish emigrants from America to Australia to Argentina. More recently it has become a flash point for political divides within the Irish community. THE WEARING OF THE GREEN is the first book to chronicle the full history of St. Patrick's Day--from its medieval origins to plastic leprechauns and green beer -- exploring the shared heritage of the Irish through the evolution of this amazing holiday. AUTHOR: Daryl Adair, Mike Cronin
PUBLISHER: Routledge
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | Rescue on the Outer Banks by Candice F. Ransom, Karen Ritz
Continuing the On My Own History series is this story of the first all-African-American life-saving station. Watercolor illustrations accompany the text. AUTHOR: Candice F. Ransom, Karen Ritz
PUBLISHER: Lerner Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | The Boy Who Would Be a Helicopter by Robert Coles, Vivian G. Paley
Kindergarten teacher Vivian Gussin Paley explains how she uses storytelling in her classroom. AUTHOR: Robert Coles, Vivian G. Paley
PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | How to Complete & Survive a Doctoral Dissertation by David Sternberg
Mastering these skills spells the difference between `A.B.D.` and `Ph.D`: refuting the magnum opus myth; coping with the dissertation as obsession (magnificent or otherwise); the fine art of selecting a topic; writing the dissertation with publication in mind; when to stand your ground and when to prudently retreat if the committee`s conception of your thesis differs substantially from your own; dealing with obstructive committee members, and keeping the fences mended; how to reconsider `negative` findings as useful data; reviewing your progress, and getting out of the `dissertation dumps`; defending your paper successfully - distinguishing between mere formalities and a serious substantive challenge; exploiting the career potential of your dissertation; and much, much more. AUTHOR: David Sternberg
PUBLISHER: St. Martin's Press, LLC
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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