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"Timi and the Enchanted Paintbrush": A Magical Tale of Creativity, Problem-Solving, and Community Service Story Description for Parents and Teachers "Timi and the Enchanted Paintbrush" is an inspiring children's story perfect for elementary and middle school readers ages 7-12. This enchanting tale follows eleven-year-old Timi Alvarez, a creative young artist who discovers a magical paintbrush that brings his drawings to life. When his village faces a devastating drought, Timi combines his artistic talents with scientific research to save his community. Educational Value for Children This ...

The gavel drops. With this judgement, another young man is forever branded "guilty." Whether truly a monster or just a victim of a broken system, he will spend the coming days, weeks, and months undergoing institutional rehabilitation. Join an altruistic educator as he ventures behind the wall in an endeavor to transform the lives of youth others have simply thrown away.

Eleven-year-old stuttering Darby believes she's supposed to be perfect, just like her mother demands. But summer away at camp promises temporary escape. There, she befriends twelve-year-old Justin, who hasn't uttered a word since his dad died, and ten-year-old Naz, who is struggling to learn English. When mysterious calliope music from a nearby warehouse grants the trio power to communicate without words, they sneak inside to find out why.

Brave women from diverse backgrounds make the world a better place through their businesses in this inspiring companion to the best-selling Girls Think of Everything by Sibert-winner Catherine Thimmesh and Caldecott Honor winner Melissa Sweet. For fans of Women Who Dared and Women in Science.

A teenage boy goes shopping on the Internet, sees something he likes, immediately reaches his mother via cell phone, and in a few short keystrokes, types in her credit card number and gets a shiny new lacrosse stick. Thanks to technological advances, including computers, the Internet, cell phones, and satellites, today's children are faced with a world markedly more complex - and often more distracting - than that of any other preceding generation.

One day when little fairy Macriona is in town to buy a tinwhiste for school, she has a panic attack among all the people. Lucky for her, Janosch comes along. A man of special abilities, he can see her and help. He tells her he has panic attacks too, she is not alone. He starts her out on her journey of learning to manage her anxiety. Macriona learns techniques and tricks how to manage better and this includes sharing how she feels with Mary, her elder fairy.

McKenzie and her boyfriend, Brady, are having the best summer ever when Mack’s aunt arrives to bring her back east for school. Before Mack leaves for her exclusive prep school, she and Brady decide to surf one last wave for the summer. But after a surfing mishap, the duo finds themselves transported into a classic 1960s' beach movie musical! They soon discover that there is an intense rivalry between the local surfers and bikers.

McKenzie and her boyfriend, Brady, are having the best summer ever when Mack’s aunt arrives to bring her back east for school. Before Mack leaves for her exclusive prep school, she and Brady decide to surf one last wave for the summer. But after a surfing mishap, the duo finds themselves transported into a classic 1960s' beach movie musical! They soon discover that there is an intense rivalry between the local surfers and bikers.

It's the early 1800s, and Clover travels the impoverished borderlands of the Unified States with her father, a physician. See to the body before you, he teaches her, but Clover can't help becoming distracted by bigger things, including the coming war between the US and France, ignited by a failed Louisiana Purchase, and the terrifying vermin, cobbled together from dead animals and spare parts, who patrol the woods. Most of all, she is consumed with interest for Oddities, ordinary objects with extraordinary abilities.

Government cuts, unregulated care homes, inadequate staff training—campaigner and care home consultant Chris Wild has seen it all. The low standards and frequent abuse of children in care has long been a focal point of his loud message: we are failing our young people and something needs to change. Chris delves deep into the lives of care home kids, from experiences with county lines, drugs, trafficking, knife crime, gang violence to child exploitation and sexual abuse.

John Lynch was a promising athlete, but at age 11 was struck by a crippling illness. He was diagnosed with juvenile arthritis (JA), a disease that affects 300,000 children, making them unable to live full-functioning, pain-free lives. John continued to seek new treatments, but not until age 53 was he given the “miracle drug” that enabled him to sustain a 30-year legal practice. During that time, he dedicated his life to helping others who suffered from JA and became a much-honored advocate for easing their distress.

Fat Kids is a truly unique work; all other books focusing on children and weight are solely focused on diet and weight loss. This book, with its empathetic point of view, raw emotion, and solid information, is a necessary voice in the literary scene.

In Modern Families, Joshua Gamson brings us extraordinary family creation tales - his own included - that illuminate this changing world of contemporary kinship. Combining personal memoir and ethnographic storytelling, Modern Families tells a variety of unconventional family-creation tales - adoption and assisted reproduction, gay and straight parents, coupled and single, and multi-parent families - set against the social, legal, and economic contexts in which they were made.

When Frankie and Drew get in an argument about how ancient Egyptians really walked, there's only one way to set the record straight - a quick time-travel adventure! But what happens when Frankie and Drew's precious Sonic Suitcase ends up buried inside a booby-trap-ridden pyramid? There's only one way to get it back - by going inside and hoping they can make it out again.

When Frankie and his best friend, Drew, head back to the Middle Ages for one last trip with the Sonic Suitcase, they’re in for some strange surprises. What kind of knight rides a pig into battle? Who’s the mysterious stranger who turns up right when Frankie’s in serious trouble? And what could possibly make Drew want to stay in the Middle Ages forever?​ Only one thing is certain Frankie’s last time-travel adventure will be one to remember....

I live near a biscuit factory. Sounds like a dream come true, right? But it's not all fun and jammie dodgers. You see, the biscuit factory is really a Super-Secret Science Lab. Everyone pretends it makes biscuits. It just makes life easier. Until today. Because the biscuit factory tore a hole through dimensions, and now huge orange monsters are climbing through. Oh, and if we don't do something, the world is going to go kablooey in the next 30 minutes. Not on my watch. You coming?

Liebe Kinder, liebe Eltern, herzlich willkommen! In diesem Buch haben meine Frau und ich jede Menge alltägliche Geräusche zusammengestellt und als Quiz für euch aufbereitet. Auch dieses Hörbuch ist bei unseren Kindern wieder Probe gelaufen und kam sehr gut an.

Learn how to be a super mom and a great business woman in a step-by-step guide to developing, incubating, and marketing your business without taking the joy out of family life with kids - being an active parent while succeeding as a woman business entrepreneur.

Ever wondered where some writers get their characters? Just maybe they come from Mack's One Stop Character Shop, where grumpy wizards, weeping dragons, singing chestnuts, arguing lemons, miniature lady vampires, giant flies, slippered frogs, knighted ogres and creatures there aren't even names for await your discovery. You'll be so dazzled by the amount of oddities that you'll be wanting to make your own trip to Mack's asap... particularly if you also like to pen the odd tale.

When 11-year-old Aidan receives a mysterious package of sweets from South America in the post, he and his two best friends Sadie and Hussein eat one sweet each - and suddenly develop amazing superpowers. Sadie can move objects with her mind. Hussein can control any electronic device. And Aidan can ignite his body at will...and when he's on fire, he can fly. When they discover that the sweets were sent by a traitorous criminal who is trying to hunt them down to get them back, they have to use all their new powers to outwit him.