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Loose Balloons is a humorous, fanciful children's book for ages four-to-twelve. The engaging poems encourage children to read, laugh and learn about their environment and themselves. These imaginative rhymes contain K-5 teaching resources and lesson plans guided by the Florida State Standards.Jill Clark's whimsical rhymes combine with Brandy Winston's vivid illustrations to deliver FUN and DELIGHTFUL wordplay from a childlike perspective.

The book GO, GIRL, GO is suitable for any group, from second grade through high school--but it is interesting enough for older audiences as well. The story is a heart-warming presentation of an extraordinary girl who has multiple handicaps but goes through life with an attitude that is awe-inspiring. Shoshana touches the heart of everyone she meets, for she embraces life and people with the joy of living and with caring for others. But there i...

Bully Route Home is a coming-of-age story which follows protagonist Robert William Robertson, aka "Pooch, " a young man who learns some of the hard lessons of life including racism, standing up for what's right and learning how to handle different situations. As he does tasks that seem mundane such as taking a catfish off a hook, he is taught valuable lessons. The story focuses on the effects of racism on a small town in a time where hatred ra...

From the moment fifteen year old Salvatore declares "I will not kill another human being, " he also declares his desire for freedom. He knows well the dangers and the risks of abandoning everything he knows in his comfortably rich family lifestyle, but he is willing to face anyththing and lose everything he has rather than be slave to a regime he despises. And so he plans and acts, facing fears, dangers, and perhaps failure as he courageously ...

London is devastated after two acts of terror within days of each other. After a chance meeting between Kyle McBride and one of the jihadists, they take direct aim on Kyle and hurt one of his own instead. Kyle goes on the defensive, and he knows the game better than the terrorists could ever guess. Before long he discovers their plan to raid a nuclear weapons depot.Alan Durant is an disillusioned young jihadist given the task of the decoy, who...

Nathaniel Hawthorne's courtship of Sophia Peabody lasted over three years because he insisted on keeping it secret. He had his reasons, none of which Sophia agreed with. But she knew they were destined for each other and he was worth the wait. When they married in 1842 "we became Adam and Eve alone in our Garden of Even" she wrote in her journal. But not all was paradise in their Eden-Nathaniel bore a burden that plagued his family since 1692....

Sandy, a playful herring gull, lives at the ocean. He enjoys playing with his friends and watching people swim and play at the ocean.Because of his curiosity, he flies very close to the kites and gets into trouble. He learns that people are good and that he should be careful and learn how to best deal with strange objects.Children relate to this story while they also learn about seagulls, their habits and habitats, and what caring for others r...

Jacob sits in jail awaiting trial for a fatal hit-and-run accident, hating himself for the pain that he has caused his family, petrified that more secrets will be discovered. He will do anything to keep his family together until he realizes the cold hard truth that he may have already lost them. Worse yet, the only person who can save him is the one who wants him destroyed.Everywhere Samantha turns, she is met with judgment and betrayal until ...

Backpack Blues is a young adult story in verse set in a fragile world, the rural Mountain Valley High School, located in the extreme northeastern section of the Adirondack Mountains. ACE JACKSON serves as a master of ceremonies, but each student shares the limelight for a moment. The narrative begins with an invitation by MARISOL GARCIA to enter the world of her senior class. We hear CORA SIMMONS' cry for acceptance. One by one, Cora's classma...

The South Seas Room is silver light, generous drinks, and the best band in town. At night, the fashionable crowd leaves swimming pools and beaches to haunt the end of the bar. It's a friendly place. Go there by yourself, and chances are you'll leave with company. Someone is borrowing the pretty people though, and not returning them.Convertibles, neon signs, and Gin Rickeys . . . a sea of light all theway to the Pacific Ocean. This is January 1...

Penny Summers bones up on Renaissance garden design until she finds a dead docent and finds herself up to her tramp stamp unraveling a Civil War battle flag scam. In North Carolina where "The Recent Unpleasantness" between the North and the South is still romanticized, the problem of a dead docent in a famous garden leads ex-Navy public affairs officer Penny Summers to a Civil War battle flag scam, a deadly reenactment, and a search for a man ...

In 1896, the isolated and vast state of Idaho is a haven for the polygamous splinter group called The Kingdom of Glory, which is hiding more than their outlawed practice of plural marriage.At the compound called Cedar Creek, the prophet is hoping to increase his congregation, even if that means marrying off girls to men decades older. When Peri, who escaped the compound years earlier, returns to help rescue Grace, a girl betrothed to the proph...

Ben Barklee-- college professor, former Chicago Cubs pitcher and accidental private investigator in the first of the Ben Barklee mystery series. Barklee teaches a course on Dickens at Ridgehaven college, a.k.a. Dropout U. One of his wealthy pupils, Jane Macalester, a senator's daughter, goes missing. Unwittingly saving her from her captors, Barklee becomes a hero and then is ironically dismissed from his position because of "the college's fisc...

The consummate skill of Jesse Sam Owens is revealed as his words pour forth in a musical cadence of poem/songs which grip the readers almost hypnotically. One never knows whether it will be the reality of the logic, the visions he elicits through his words and the artwork of his artists, his use of gentle satire or harsher analogies that catches one unaware, or his emotional appeal to memories long hidden or suppressed that affect his readers ...

Being popular isn't the same as being loved. At the exclusive Violet Crab, the club headliner is Carla Rose, a torch singer with a voice as delicious as the rest of her. There is nothing delectable about the strange, bloated mermaid who washes up under the Santa Teresa pier wearing seaweed and a red dress--and nobody wants to know about Carla's last swim. She's all alone.The Violet Crab is the third Kahlo and Crowe mystery, following Girls in ...

Michael Callaway and his fiance¿e, Carrie Marvin fought a battle with the devil on the azure waters of the Caribbean and won, removing one of the fiercest drug dealers in history from this world. Little did they know that the man's son would come for them with a vengeance so strong that it would make his dead father's evil accomplishments seem trivial in comparison.Callaway will be driven from the beautiful life that he and Carrie had planned,...

A naive, trusting, small-town Midwestern girl exchanges her conservative, sheltered upbringing and abusive marriage for a life of independence and freedom in her dream place-southern California. When a man shows up in her life who seems almost perfect, she looks upon his arrival as a chance to start on a new, ideal life. What begins as a whirlwind romance, ends when the man's chameleon-like persona emerges and leads to a dramatic event, leavin...

Havlin simultaneously peeks at the events of the1928 Okeechobee Hurricane that struck Florida, and how Don Roebling was determined to invent a rescue boat that can conquer the swamps, the flooding, and the debris to save lives. The partnership that followed became history, and the creation of what would soon be known as the AMTRAKs and Higgins Boats would change the course of not only the war, but the world.Blue Water Red Blood is the poignant...

After an unsuccessful night operation drug bust, Customs Enforcement Agent Michael Callaway ends up on a collision course with his show-off boss. He quits his job, believing that he could just sit back and enjoy life, but he still could not let his former duties go and began to act in ways that kept everyone guessing about his true interests. He bought a boat and with his former partner went off on a fishing and drinking trip to the Bahamas. W...

You're in the big leagues here, where it's every skater for herself. Don't think you're gonna get any help from me . . . And don't try to wheedle yourself onto Jessica's good side. She's my coach and I come first!"Pairs skater Jamie Bartlett flinches at the hostile words coming from Emily Lin, her new roommate. What has she gotten herself into?Not that she had a choice. After winning the gold medal at Sectionals, she and her partner Matt were ...