Oil on the Brain

Oil on the BrainBy: Lisa Margonelli Oil on the Brain is a smart, surprisingly funny account of the oil industrythe people, economies, and pipelines that bring us petroleum, brilliantly illuminating a world we encounter every day. Americans buy ten thousand gallons of gasoline a second, without giving it much of a thought. Where does all this gas come from? Lisa Margonellis desire to learn took her on a one hundred thousand mile journey from her local gas station to

Yet we often get stuck in a well-worn pattern of habits that don’t move us forward

By: National Geographic Kids   | Series: Look & Learn Filled with gorgeous photographs inspired by National Geographic Little Kids magazine

and her brother Quinton's curse steadily worsening

the rescue of Tam Lin from the bewitching Queen of the Fairies

And will her parents ever let her have a horse of her own

is a perfect clone of the amazing Spider-Man…but with none of Peter Parker's responsibility

By: Joe Peta     An ex–Wall Street trader improved on Moneyball’s famed sabermetrics and beat the Vegas odds with his own betting methods

The Pepperday family is moving to Aunt Sally’s farm

頭髮毛毛有點微捲；菱角嘴，看來總是微微笑；大眼睛，有助表情靈動，瞪起人來卻很凶。育有平平、安安兩個「好奇『侯』子」，超愛好奇猴喬治，閱讀次數不下千次。

The Tears of a Man Flow Inward gives us an illuminating window into what it means to come of age in dark times

When Billy goes off to Vietnam

Ideas have the power to change history