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"Through this authoritative account of the historical record and important new findings, Abramitzky and Boustan will help shape our thinking and policies about the fraught topic of immigration with findings such as: ·Where you come from doesn't matter. The children of immigrants from El Salvador, Mexico, and Guatemala today are as likely to be as successful as the children of immigrants from Great Britain and Norway 150 years ago. ·Children of immigrants...

Ash, Eco, Sylvia, and Lucca venture to Willingham Mausoleum in search of Lucca{u2019}s dragon, Gawain, hoping convince him to reestablish his bond with Lucca before it{u2019}s too late. However, instead of finding Gawain, the evil Milgauss lies in wait with a horrible surprise.

"In the capital city of Fontaine, at the mausoleum where the royal family's dragons are laid to rest, several tombs have been robbed. Among them, the remains of the dragon belonging to Sylvia's brother are missing! When Milgauss arrives in the city to attend the conference and masquerade ball, it portends dark things for Ash, his friends, and everyone around them"--Unedited summary from the book.

"There was no looking back after the wheel was invented. It allowed people to build carts to transport their goods and, eventually, those carts turned into means of transportation for people. But there were also horses, and donkeys, and bullocks for transporting goods and people. There were stagecoaches, and trains, and cars. And there were boats-all kinds of boats-and all kinds of airplanes. People are very good at inventing ways to make their lives...

Ash hasn't had much time to figure out the mystery of Eco's appearance. Ansullivan is under attack by a kind of dragon no one's ever seen before--one that smells like death and regenerates when injured. As if that's not enough for a young dragon rider to deal with, the student council is recruiting, and a tempestuous member of the royal family is about to pay Ansullivan a fateful visit.

"The students of Ansullivan Dragonar Academy are abuzz with excitement: the school's annual invitational training camp is coming up, and only the best and brightest will be chosen to attend. Ash Blake is stunned to find he's been selected--he may have unusual gifts, but his Steed, Eco, has a human body. How can a Dragonar who can't ride his dragon possibly participate? Yet the biggest surprise is not Ash's selection. When a girl named Lucca Sarlinen...

"Learning to ride and tame dragons comes easy to most students at Ansarivan Dragonar Academy--except for first-year student Ash Blake, who is known by his fellow classmates as the "number one problem child." Poor Ash is the laughingstock at school because, despite his unfashionably large star-shaped brand that marks him as a future dragon master, he has nothing to show for it. His dragon has never appeared. Until now, that is. One fateful day, Ash's...

"The Ansullivan 500-Year Festival is well underway, but the festive air won't last for long. A parasitic black crystal has attached itself to Oscar's dragon, causing both rider and steed to go berserk-just in time for their showdown with Ash. The grand finale of Dragonar Academy is here at last!"--pg.4 of cover.

"As a member of the obscure idol group Tea Party, Maha Lee dreams of becoming a superstar one day. But she had no idea she'd get her big break so soon...by embarrassing herself on a popular talk show! Even worse, the debacle lands her on the bad side of Ryoc Kwon, a member of the top male idol group SHAX. He now has her pegged as a talentless fake who imitates successful artists for attention...Does Maha have what it takes to convince him and the...

Sion is a fortune-teller who lives in an ancient Chinese kingdom with his son and a beloved horse. When Sion begins to experience a series of unlucky events, he shocks everyone in town by saying that it is a sign of good things to come. Will Sion lose his reputation for being the wisest man in the kingdom, for how could misfortune ever be a blessing? This profound folktale from China, originally retold by Chen Jiafei and illustrated by award-winning...