Accidental Ashes' is a top-notch fiction-fantasy novel written like a mug full to the brim with warm coffee - creamy with creativity and rich with reality. And everyone loves coffee.
When CC falls off a building in a crowded marketplace, she
injures her head. She spends time in the hospital
recovering from her injury. There are a couple of things
that CC does not understand, however. Why is she suffering
from headaches and bad dreams? And why is an ancient
painting in a book so familiar to her? Through hypnosis, CC
learns about another girl in another time. Zhang Mei Lan
spends a lot of time with her brother and close friend and
'In the Shadow of the Lamp' is a fufilling, deeply immersing story of willpower, truth, and the search for everlasting love. In 1854, Molly Fraser, a lowly servant working for an elegant London household, is wrongly accused of thievery. She is quite promptly banished from her claim and nearly thrown out onto the streets. Now, her work and little money gone, she is forced to wander the city in search of a new way of life. So when an opportunity arises for Molly to possibly go to Crimea with a team of Florence Nightingale's nurses, she determinedly sets out for the battlefield.
THE REINVENTION OF BESSICA LEFTER is a fabulous, fun-filled fiction work. After a few accidental incidents, eleven-year-old Bessica Lefter is forbidden to be with her best friend, Sylvie. Then, Sylvie moves to a new school, leaving Bessica to start middle school friendless. On top of everything else, it doesn't help that Bessica's special grandmother is off on some crazy road trip with her weird new boyfriend and has little or no time left for Bessica. It also doesn't help that the gorgeous Noll Beck just thinks she's some little kid.
Space, Stars and the Beginning of Time: What the Hubble Telescope Saw is a very informative nonfiction read packed with amazing facts and science about planets, stars, galaxies and more. Complete with incredible space photographs from the Hubble itself, this book will intrigue readers of all ages. This is a perfect resource for school reports or just reading for fun, but for whatever reason, a greatly constructed nonfiction.
After her father, sister and brother die in an unexpected plane crash, twelve- year-old Daralyn [Dolly] Oakland's life is turned completely upside-down. Everything around her is changing and there is absolutely nothing she can do to stop it. Her once-happy mother has now turned into an angry, grieving woman that Daralyn doesn't even know. Her favorite aunt, Aunt Jessie, has begun dating a new man . . . and Daralyn does not have a good feeling about him.
