The Verdigris Pawn
ISBN 978-0062908056
A Boy Who Doesn't Know His Power . . .
A Girl With A Gift Long Thought Lost . . .
A Land Ready For Revolution. . .
The heir to the Land should be strong. Fierce. Ruthless. Everything Beau is not, according to his father. Beau has spent his whole life locked away, useless, just another pawn in his father’s quest for ultimate power.
Until Beau meets a girl who shows him the secrets his father has kept hidden and reveals just how brutal and merciless his reign has been. For the first time ever, Beau begins to question everything he’s been told and sets off in search of a rebel who might hold the answer to making things right.
All the while, sinister forces are lurking in the shadows, and the future of the Land and its people hangs perilously in the balance. Beau soon realizes that the key may be within himself—but only if he can find the power to go from pawn to player and save the Land before it’s torn apart.
The Next Great Jane
ISBN 978-0803734753
This is a happily-ever-after story of a girl who discovers the true secret to all good writing through an unlikely friendship, some well-intentioned matchmaking, and little bit of science. A perfect read for fans of Rachel Vail, Sharon Creech and Meg Cabot.Jane Brannen wants nothing more than to become a famous author like Jane Austen--she just needs to figure out the key to literary success! Her chance to uncover the secret arrives when bestselling author J. E. Fairfax visits her tiny town of Whickett Harbor. Unfortunately, a hurricane rolls in and Jane gets stuck with the author's snobbish son, Devon, instead. But when the skies clear, Jane realizes the wind has blown in something worse than annoying boys: Her mother, Susan, and Susan's new fiancé, Erik, have flown all the way from Hollywood to file for custody and bring Jane back to California. Now she needs to find a mate for her marine biologist father and figure out what's truly important about Whickett Harbor, so she can prove to her mother that this is where she's meant to stay.
History Smashers: Women's Right to Vote
ISBN 978-0593120354
Myths! Lies! Secrets! Smash the stories behind famous moments in history and expose the hidden truth. Perfect for fans of I Survived and Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales.In 1920, Susan B. Anthony passed a law that gave voting rights to women in the United States. RIGHT?WRONG! Susan B. Anthony wasn’t even alive when the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified. Plus, it takes a lot more than one person to amend the constitution.The truth is, it took millions of women to get that amendment into law. They marched! They picketed! They even went to jail. But in the end, it all came down to a letter from a state representative’s mom. No joke.
Pink Hair and Other Terrible Ideas
ISBN 9781684460281
Twelve-year-old Josephine has a lot on her plate, best friend issues, first crush issues, divorced parent issues, twin brother issues . . . and then her mom hits her with news that shakes her to her core: a breast cancer diagnosis. Josephine doesn't want anyone to know, not even her best friend. Sharing the news means it's actually real, and that's something she's not ready to face. Plus it would mean dealing with the stares and pity of her classmates. She got enough of that when her parents split up. Unfortunately for Josephine, her twin brother, Chance, doesn't feel the same way. And when Chance dyes his hair pink to support his mom, the cat is out of the bag. Suddenly Josephine has to rethink her priorities. Does getting an invite to the party of the year matter when your mom is sick? And what if it does matter? Does that make her a monster?
Finding Langston
ISBN 978-0-8234-3960-7
It's 1946. Langston's mother has just died, and now they're leaving the rest of his family and friends. He misses everything— Grandma's Sunday suppers, the red dirt roads, and the magnolia trees his mother loved.In the city, they live in a small apartment surrounded by noise and chaos. It doesn't feel like a new start, or a better life. At home he's lonely, his father always busy at work; at school he's bullied for being a country boy.But Langston's new home has one fantastic thing. Unlike the whites-only library in Alabama, the Chicago Public Library welcomes everyone. There, hiding out after school, Langston discovers another Langston—a poet whom he learns inspired his mother enough to name her only son after him.
Rotten!: Vultures, Beetles, Slime, and Nature’s Other Decomposers
ISBN 978-1328841650
A funny and fact-filled look at decomposition in all of its slimy glory, illustrated with dazzling full-color art by Gilbert Ford. Vultures, fungi, dung beetles, and more aid in this fascinating and sometimes smelly aspect of the life cycle that’s right under our noses.
BOTS! Robotics Engineering with Makerspace Activities for Kids
ISBN 978-1619308305
Explore the roles robots play in our world and learn about the history, engineering, and key players from STEAM education expert Kathy Ceceri. BOTS! ROBOTICS ENGINEERING WITH MAKERSPACE ACTIVITIES FOR KIDS contains loads of hands-on robotics projects that help kids learn design, engineering, and coding. Find out what the future of robotics may bring, and how to develop your own innovative robots! For more about Kathy's books, visit https://www.kathyceceri.com/maker-books
BAT 6
ISBN 9780590898003
Bat 6 is about two sixth grade softball teams meet to play an annual game in 1949 America. The War is over. But it hasn’t left people’s minds. When a girl whose father died in the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor meets a girl who was imprisoned with her family in an American concentration camp for four years, what is going to happen? Both girls have learned lessons from the War. Only one of them is about hating. All the girls on both teams take turns telling the story of how Aki’s and Shazam’s lives—and everybody’s—change on game day. BAT 6 won the Jane Addams Children's Book Award.