RIF Summer Camp: STEM Stars Badge. When a devastating drought wiped out every crop his family had, fourteen year old William Kamkwamba refused to give up. Armed with nothing but curiosity and a stack of science books from his village library, he came up with an idea so bold that his neighbors thought he had lost his mind.

RIF Summer Camp: STEM Stars Badge. When three mysterious creatures sweep Meg Murry, her brother Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin across space and time to rescue her missing father, they discover a darkness on the planet Camazotz that threatens the entire universe. characters.

RIF's 60th Anniversary Highlighted Book for 2008. In a dark future where the government forces one boy and one girl from each district to fight to the death on live television, sixteen-year-old Katniss volunteers to take her little sister's place in the games. Armed with her bow and a fierce will to survive, she enters an arena where the rules can change at any moment. But what happens when the thing that might save her life could also start a revolution?

A fun, informative book with colorful pictures and interesting facts about rocks and minerals...