The Wroe Family of "The Ghostly Hideaway" faces new problems & some old ones. A long-lost aunt discovers she can talk to the ghosts but drug smuggling, murder,intrigue, crooked cops and scheming politicians combine with planned and unplanned pregnancies and a mature but sweet romance to spice up this thriller, the 2nd in a trilogy of ghost stories. Look for the 3rd, "The Phantoms' Refuge" soon.Ed & Penny Wroe and six-year-old twins, Andy & Candy, live near Fordsville, KY in a haunted house they found in the first book in this trilogy, "The Haunted Hideaway." Daughter Crissy lives nearby with new hubby, Johnny O'Reilly. Ed & Johnny have a new employee in their carpenter business who ends up being shot. A long-lost aunt discovers she can communicate with the Wroe's resident ghosts. The twins find their very own ghost and Shadowhawk needs their help badly. These ghostly happenings along with heroin smuggling, murder, crooked cops and scheming politicians, one planned pregnancy and another definitely unplanned along with a mature but very sweet romance, spice up this thriller which switches locales between Laredo, TX and the Kentucky Haunted Hideout.Coming soon: the third book in the trilogy, "The Phantoms' Refuge."

Disaster strikes in this spellbinding conclusion to Gordon Korman's thrilling Everest trilogy. Four kids are prepared to go into thin air in order to become the youngest person ever to climb Everest. But they are not prepared for the challenges that await them as they get closer to the summit. Supplies are low. Conditions are extreme. One of the kids is trying to sabotage the others. And then the storm hits. . . .

Poor Karen. She has a bad toothache. But Karen does not want to go to the dentist. She's afraid. Maybe Karen's toothache will just go away. Will Karen be brave enough for the tooth doctor?

John Russell has been raised as an Apache. Now he's on his way to live as a white man. But when the stagecoach passengers learn who he is, they want nothing to do with him -- until outlaws ride down on them and they must rely on Russell's guns and his ability to lead them out of the desert. He can't ride with them, but they must walk with him or die.

Animal Tales is a series of 12 controlled readers bringing Dr. Phil McGraw’s Life Strategies to 3rd-5th graders. Students are taken on an African adventure where the life strategies are presented as fables. The Journey Begins is the first book in the series; readers are introduced to the main characters (Jake, Nia, and Elena), and their reasons for helping each other.Animal Tales is a series of 12 controlled readers bringing Dr. Phil McGraw’s Life Strategies to 3rd-5th graders. Students are taken on an African adventure where the life strategies are presented as fables. The Journey Begins is the first book in the series. Here, readers spend time with Jake as he persuades his parents to create an African bedroom for him in the attic. The safari scene painted on the walls is quite realistic; what none of them realizes is that the room is magical and can transport Jake to a village in Africa. On his arrival at the village, Jake meets the other main characters; Grandpa, Nia, and Elena the chimp. Grandpa controls the magic and has brought Jake to the village to help rid them of poachers who are camped at the water-hole and who are playing havoc with the balance of nature. The problem is that Jake needs the help of the African wild animals in order to succeed. He is led by Elena the chimp toward the water-hole and has a series of adventures along the way. With each adventure, a group of animals and their friends join Jake on his quest.Upon reaching the water-hole, Jake finds himself imprisoned by the poachers. His last act of kindness completes his challenge to win over all the animals and they band together to free Jake and send the poachers running for their lives.After a victorious celebration at the village, Jake is transported home where he finds Nia and Elena painted on his wall and peeking at him from behind an acacia tree. At that moment, Jake realizes that his African adventures have only just begun.

It was the story of a lifetime, the kind of story every reporter dreams of doing. It made her famous, made her money, but what was the cost of that? to the point, was the cost worth the payout? It was hard for her to keep her head straight, because she had become obsessed...The Kingdom of Heaven has been downsized to a single city. And to save overcrowding, God has a new chosen race and set of entry qualifications. In the modern hereafter only good Americans go to Paris when they die. But not even a divinely ordered bureaucracy is infallible and five not-so-good Americans find themselves thrown together and trapped in a surreal limbo while awaiting official ruling on their fate: return to the void of death or return outside to the Paris of their twenty-fifth year.They are an ill-assorted lot: randy 1900s marine Louis Forster; Maggie Thompson, an over-sexed 1930s fan dancer; neurotic 1940s New York intellectual Seymour Stein;modern-day foul-mouthed truck-driver, Max Pilsudski; Helen Ricchi, the mysterious and bookish wallflower suspected of murder after her husband's disappearance in the Paris of the 1950s. And these desperate departed will stop at nothing to return to the land of the living and repair flawed lives and fractured loves.

Bailey and her brother, Blake, are traveling to their dad's house when aliens attack earth. After their bus breaks down, it's up to Bailey to get them home—but first she must figure out where they are. Perfect for survival-story enthusiasts, this Attack on Earth book is packed full of action and drama sure to make even the most reluctant readers fiercely turn the pages.

It's a snowy winter's eve in northern Minnesota. Stella Pike's getting ready to close the store when her longtime boyfriend, Johnny Ridgewater, shows up to give her a scare. But things soon turn creepy when a strange visitor wanders up to the store.The first in a series of stories about a post-apocalyptic world starring Stella Pike. Suggested reading ages: 15 and upRebekah connects with the ancient stones and finds she has an ancient link from thousands of years. Trip through the stones of Cornwall, Devon and Avebury amidst stone circles, standing stones and monuments to dead kings and ancestors.

When parents around the world go mad and start killing their children, fourteen-year-old Caril Hallenbeck and her younger siblings have to fight for survival.Fifteen-year-old Caril Hallenbeck is an underachieving misfit in a family of beautiful, talented winners. Walking home from school after receiving yet another terrible report card, she steals herself for the inevitable put down session her father is going to put her through. But as she walks, Caril starts to hear screams coming from the apartment buildings she passes. Then she sees a teenage girl and boy get attacked and beaten with a tire iron by a crazed man. Pleading for her life, the girl calls the man "Dad"...

Where the Dead Breathe and the Immortal Die: The epic battle between angels and demons begins....Lucifer grows restless. A sense of unquiet gnaws at his ether. He seeks something. Something more....Lusting for the power to create worlds and to rule races inferior to his own, Lucifer trains the Malakim in the art of swordcraft, unknowingly preparing them to aid him in his attempt to usurp King Elyon’s throne. Bearer of a sword that can slay a spirit-lord, Lucifer grooms Michael, his favored lieutenant, as his second-in-command. But Michael starts unraveling the mystery behind the secrecy, and is forced to choose between his comrades and loyalty to his King.History and fantasy collide as the ultimate struggle between good and evil rises in this 20,000 word novella, Dawn of Shadows, the first installment in the epic supernatural Christian fantasy, Prophecy of the Heir.

A short, but magical, haunting tale of country ways, adventure, loss and love.Two friends are sitting, amicably silent, in the dusk of a winter's day, when the atmosphere around them changes. Soon a story of love, loss and adventure unfolds, with unexpected consequences for them both.The school diary of samuel pope is the second in the series, which follows samuel and his relationship with his friend luke who has autism.Follow luke and samuel has there friendship develops, and samuel learns more about autism.the school holidays is a delightful follow up to the unbelievable succesful 'the diary of samuel pope' which received praise from many ASD websites and magazines, it was featured in newspapers and receieved attention from the NAS.

This article presents an assessment that helps professionals detect the potential for violence. The assessment is balanced and looks at both risks and protective factors.This article presents an assessment that helps professionals detect the potential for violence. The assessment is balanced and looks at both risks and protective factors. Rather than having a zero tolerance policy where a single risk can get a child expelled, this assessment looks at the whole child, especially the factors that show the child is at low risk to act out in violent ways. Children, young people and adults who have good relationships with prosocial people, can regulate their emotions and behaviors, and who have beliefs that promote the well-being of others and the self are at relatively low risk. Persons who have poor relationships with others, have difficulty managing their emotions and actions, and who have beliefs that violence solves problems are at high risk.

“I’ve been running for as long as I could remember.” Sophia Talar has been on the run all her life. Being a daughter of the Talar family was rarity; The Talar family had daughters once in a millennium. With Sophia’s presence on the world, a man hunts beings for the last remaining Talar daughter. Living in the middle of Naples, Italy, Jamie and Draco Talar believe their family is safe until SopI kept running towards the house with the twins hot on my heels, I was trying to hold my cool but their presence affected me like no others had. Xena yelled at me “ stop running Soph, you are our soul come back please. You don’t know how much you mean to us now that we’ve found you.”I stopped walking when I hit the meadow clearing and I didn’t turned around but waited for the rain to come down as my eyes cleared to a Celestial blue. When the running steps came closer, my breath took a shaky turn. Dante moved towards me and spoke softly catching his breath, “ why do you keep running from us?”I took a sharp breath of salty air and expressed why. “I’ve been running for as long as I could remember. My parents fought for my safety and my dad lost his life in a hunt for my life. I am from a long line of Talaren daughters who have been hunted down for a power that we posses. But the only thing that is different from the early generation and myself is I am not in control of one element, I am in control of all of them. Running is all I know and I don’t have a reason to stop now. “

A collection of limericks and longer poems about privies he's known and such privies as the author imagines historical figures would have used.A set of poems probably in really crappy taste, Mr. Miller presents a collection of limericks and longer poems about privies he's known and such privies as he imagines historical figures would have used. For example: Sherlock Holmes, of the late nineteenth century,Whose thinking was quick and sequentery,Said: “The need for the shackWhich is standing out backIs clearly, dear Watson, alimentary.”

Lydia Raion is an Anima, she just doesn't know that yet. She's also the only transfer in the history of the Academy which brings unwanted attention, along with her cold-hearted trainer Jeremy with looks that can kill. If that wasn’t bad enough, she learns things about her family she wished she hadn't. With new friends & a lot of courage, she will face the hardest task of her life—who to trust.Lydia Raion is a strong-headed girl, who has to learn that not everything is as it seems. Going to a new school with new people is hard as it is, but add the fact that you’re the only transfer in the history of Animalagus Academy is sure to bring unwanted attention, but maybe not all bad. Lydia's trainer Jeremy is just that—too bad he's as cold as ice. Her past also starts to reveal itself, making Lydia question who she is, and who to trust. There is also a threat on the rise, and it's target isn't only the academy, but Lydia herself.