Roz the robot discovers that she is alone on a remote, wild island with no memory of where she is from or why she is there, and her only hope of survival is to try to learn about her new environment from the island's hostile inhabitants.

The carrots that grow in Crackenhopper Field are the fattest and crispiest around and Jasper Rabbit cannot resist pulling some to eat each time he passes by, until he begins hearing and seeing creepy carrots wherever he goes.

Cuando Roz abre los ojos por primera vez, descubre que está sola en una isla remota y salvaje. No tiene idea de cómo llegó ahí o con qué propósito, pero sabe que necesita sobrevivir. Después de enfrentarse a una feroz tormenta y escapar del ataque de un oso, se da cuenta de que su única oportunidad para sobrevivir es adaptándose a sus alrededores y aprendiendo de los demás habitantes, aunque estos nos sean los más amigables. Cuando trata...

Lucy, a young bear, starts her day determined to make a new friend but her enthusiasm leads to all sorts of problems until, just as she is about to give up, an unexpected friend finds her.

When 19-year-old John Groberg is sent on a three-year mission to Tonga, he has no idea what he's getting into. Just getting to Tonga is fraught with danger and unbelievable obstacles. Once there, he finds himself in the midst of a culture as remote to him as the island is to his Idaho Falls home. Not understanding the language, and lonely for his fiancee Jean, John faces suspicion, distrust, typhoons, tidal waves, mosquitoes, and other perils of man...

Penguin and his other flightless bird friends invent a flying machine, but they fly right into a thunderstorm.

To most of us, learning something 'the hard way' implies wasted time and effort. Good teaching, we believe, should be creatively tailored to the different learning styles of students and should use strategies that make learning easier. Make It Stick turns fashionable ideas like these on their head. Many common study habits and practice routines turn out to be counterproductive. Underlining and highlighting, rereading, cramming, and single-minded repetition...

"El conejo Jasper ya no es un conejito. No tiene miedo de la oscuridad, y definitivamente no tiene miedo de algo tan tonto como la ropa interior. Pero cuando las luces se apagan, de repente sus calzoncillos brillan en la oscuridad. Un brillo verdoso y espantoso. Si Jasper fuera miedoso diria que su ropa interior es un poco, bueno, espeluznante. Pero Jasper, obviamente, no tiene miedo y acaba con los espeluznantes calzoncillos. Pero despues de intentarlo...

Bobby cree que su maestra, la señorita Kirby, es horrible, pero cuando la ve afuera de la escuela y pasan un día juntos en el parque, descubre que tal vez no sea tan mala después de todo.