Grow! How We Get Food From Our Garden features a young girl and her grandfather growing plants in a luscious garden. The book outlines the steps of their gardening process like tilling, planting, watering, and harvesting the produce. As the characters wait for the produce to ripen for harvest, the author includes some other parts of nature such as lively animals and their eating habits and other plants outside of the garden such as tall trees and colorful flowers.
Bullies and Peeps by J.D. Suhre is a book about a girl named Meg who is bullied at school. Hannah, the bully, is a popular girl who gets enjoyment out of seeing others struggle. Meg prefers nature to people and sees a nest of eggs with a goose perched on top while looking out of the classroom window. She learns about geese, and when the eggs eventually hatch, a surprise is welcomed into the classroom. Will the bullying stop, or will Meg join forces with nature? Maybe both!
Twelve days of Christmas Murder and Mayhem takes place at Cheatham Castle. The story follows Miss Marble, an amatuer sleuth and one of the guests at the castle’s 500 year anniversary celebration. However, what Miss Marble thought would be a nice little vacation where she could simply hear the latest gossip, turns into a murder investigation after one of the other guests attending the anniversary is killed. Miss Marble jumps into action, hoping to catch the killer before the police do and before the killer can strike again. But nothing is as it seems at Cheatham Castle.
Katie is the teenage daughter of James and Susan Death. Yes, Death is their last name as her father is the Grim Reaper, so as you can imagine Katie's story is nothing like a normal teenager's would be. She begins a new school year in a new town and new school hoping that this once she will find a friend. She is thrilled when she doesn't only find one great friend in Jodie, but rather a group of friends! The start of her hoped-for-normal school year comes grinding to a hault after a catastrophe on the hockey field.
GROW: How We Get Food from Our Garden is a book about a little girl and her grandfather gardening. They love their garden work and it shows as they take care of it through the seasons. Not only does this book show the steps taken in gardening in an colorful manner but also lists many foods to be grown and some of the insects and animals that help! Join these two expert gardeners as they show off the bounty that can be had with hard work and care!
Champions of Women's Soccer is a book that gives facts about some of the best women to play soccer, as well as some facts like the top 10 goals ever made and some of the history of soccer. The opening chapter is about Mia Hamm, followed Abby Wambach, Michelle Akers, Kristine Lilly, and eight other U.S. soccer stars. One of the stories is about Hope Solo, who became the goalie for the U.S. national team. She grew up in Richland, Washington, where she played soccer in high school and was a forward, scoring 109 goals. She received a scholarship to University of Washington to play goalie.
What would you do if death followed you everywhere you went? Katie - The Daughter Of tells the story of a girl who literally lives that very scenario, but not in the way one would think. Seventeen-year-old Katie Death is the daughter of one of the world’s many Grim Reapers, James Death. Grim Reapers are Immortals who serve to help separate souls from their dead hosts. As her dad is Immortal, Katie has heard stories about the Immortals her whole life. These stories include things like the battle between Upstairs and Downstairs and between Angels and Demons.
Strange Karma by Willow Healy is, in her own words, "a mystery/thriller set in two eras: 1920s England and Tibet, and the present-day Himalayan mountains." The book opens in 1924 on the cusp of the thrilling British expedition to climb Mt. Everest. One of the main characters from 1924 has a mysterious connection to the main character in the present day. We meet Cynthia Graham in a lawyer's office in England as she is sorting out a surprising inheritance from a grandmother she never met. She soon discovers a deeper mystery surrounding her grandmother and the Mt.
When parents bring children into this world, it is assumed they will provide for them and love them unconditionally. With that, it is also assumed they will teach them responsibility and to work hard to achieve goals in life. As children transition into adulthood, it can be challenging to let them take on adult responsibility, and sometimes parents struggle with that transition. In this story, a mother experiences that struggle and goes too far in assisting her daughter with her college acceptance.
The Illustrated Boatman's Daughter is a historical fiction book telling the story of a 14 year-old Egyptian girl on her mission to save Egypt from devastation. She is accompanied by friends and allies against the schemings of the Europeans, who seek to dominate trade through the construction of the Suez Canal. Having grown up a boatsmen's daughter, she sails and adventures through the rivers of the Nile to save her country.
