Book DescriptionSadie?s little sister, Phoebe, has vanished during the night. Phoebe has been taken through the dragon portal to another world, and only Sadie can follow and bring her back. But the new world is a hostile land of dragons and fierce, winged nomads caught up in a terrible war....

Many policymakers and analysts throughout the state have hesitated to use the State Controller\'s data on local public revenues, citing three assumptions about their quality: They do not capture all public entities in the state, they do no accurately reflect the fiscal activity of those they do capture, and they are not produced in a timely manner....

Income inequalitya measure of how equally the income pie is divided among all members of societyhas increased dramatically in the United States over the past three decades. To determine whether California trends have mirrored those of the nation, the authors analyze annual changes in income distribution from the late 1960s through 1994....