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Using a poetic, end rhyme scheme, Sandra L. Smith brings together the story of The Cupboard Cat. One family has a cat who decides to spend most of her time atop the cupboard. There, she pears out and watches everything around her home. With patience, and creativity, the family learns to coax the cupboard cat down to interact, eat, and play. But try as they might, the cupboard is home and The Cupboard Cat is here to stay. 28 Full-Color Illustra...

Caring for an elderly parent can be extremely challenging. The role reversal involved is emotionally and intellectually demanding, and many caregivers find themselves unprepared to undertake such a difficult task. In Trading Places: Becoming My Mother's Mother, author Sandra Bullock Smith shares her personal experiences spending ten years caring for her ailing mother. This heartfelt look at the trials and tribulations of that decade offers pow...

This book is for new essential oil users, or those who have been using them for awhile but still lack confidence in what to use when and how to use it, this guide will walk you through the important basics of essential oil use. This guide begins with the moment you open your new package of essential oils, with suggestions for how to take full advantage of their wonderful potential, and includes information on basic essential oils, how to use t...

(FIRST EDITION: See updated version with more essential oils, notes, experience charts, and "blends well with" information) For new essential oil users, or those who have been using them for awhile but still lack confidence in what to use when and how to use it, this guide will walk you through the important basics of essential oil use. This guide begins with the moment you open your new package of essential oils, with suggestions for how to t...

his book probes the action-adventure heroine character in eighteenth and nineteenth-century American literature. Smith analyzes captivity narratives, war narratives, stories of manifest destiny, dime novels, and tales of seduction to reveal a long literary history of female heroes who step into more male-associated roles to win the day. Along the way, Smith examines such authors as Herman Mann, Emerson Bennett, Catherine Maria Sedgewick, Mercy...

IMAGINE A FUTURE WHERE GROWING FOOD IS A CRIMEAlthough kidnapped by GRIM in an effort to strike back at her father-escaped former leader of the Seed Savers Movement-Lily quickly escapes with the help of sometime friend Rose. The girls camp out in Forest Park while plans are made for a safe rendezvous. Meanwhile, Jason and Monroe join up with the questionable group Radicle, using their Monitor skills to hack into suppressed information in an ef...

Deftly crafted and thoroughly entertaining." --Midwest Book ReviewBeginning in a Pacific Islander village of climate refugees hidden deep in the Smoky Mountains and ending in an underground bunker in Portland's Forest Park, Keeper is the fast-paced fourth installment in the Seed Savers series.In Keeper, GRIM appears to be crumbling only to be replaced by FRND (the Food Resources & Nutrition Department), a corporate-sponsored program with a mor...

Impressively original."--Midwest Book ReviewIt's late in the twenty-first century and large corporations have merged with U.S. government agencies to control the nation's food supply. Gardening is illegal and most people no longer know what real food is. Thirteen-year-old Clare and her brother Dante have escaped to Canada where the old ways still exist. There they make friends with the roguish Jason and learn the political history of their own...

From newcomer Sandra Smith comes the exciting sequel to Treasure, book one of the unique Seed Savers series. This futuristic series is perfect for fans of Among the Hidden and The Giver.It's definitely not what she had in mind for summer vacation. When her friends disappear under mysterious circumstances, thirteen-year-old Lily sets out to discover more about the secret organization with which they were involved--Seed Savers. Her investigation...

What a fun-to-read series that teaches the importance of growing our own food. It leaves young readers excited to read the next one!" Diana Perry, Midwest Book ReviewMom's Choice Gold AwardBenjamin Franklin Silver AwardTwo kids, two bikes, and an idea they can change their world. It's 2077. There's no apocalypse, but some things are different. Things like the weather, the internet, and food. In twelve-year-old Clare's world, blueberry is just ...

An illustrated examination of laboratory architecture and the work that it does to engage the public, recruit scientists, and attract funding.The laboratory building is as significant to the twenty-first century as the cathedral was to the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The contemporary science laboratory is built at the grand scales of cathedrals and constitutes as significant an architectural statement. The laboratory is a serious inve...

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Duizend kilometer tussen jou en mij is het heerlijke, onweerstaanbare verhaal van Lucy en Owen die elkaar in een lift ontmoeten en op slag verliefd worden. Schrijfster Jennifer E. Smith, bekend van de bestseller De statistische waarschijnlijkheid van liefde op het eerste gezicht, heeft opnieuw een prachtige jeugdroman geschreven. Wanneer de stroom uitvalt in New York zit Lucy vast in de lift met de zoon van de conciërge. Lucy kent Owen nauw...

Found in scores of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American narratives, the action-adventure heroine leaves the domestic space to pursue an independent adventure. This bold heroine tramps alone through the forests, has tremendous physical strength, braves dangers, earns money, and even kills her enemies. This book offers a wide-ranging look at this enigmatic character in American literature.

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