Laurie Calkhoven

Long ago, humans had to defy death just to find food, water, and shelter - all things we take for granted today. This book travels back to primitive lands where warrriors lived with beasts and where the key to survival was based solely on your will to live.

The old adage says that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, meaning that children usually resemble their parents. But what happens when the apples fall somewhere else -- sometimes a couple of orchards away, sometimes on the other side of the world? In this young adult edition, Andrew Solomon profiles how families accommodate children who have a variety of differences: families of people who are deaf, who are dwarfs, who have Down syndrome, who...