With the help of an apple and worm, children will enjoy learning their numbers and counting to ten. With beautiful colors that draw children to the pages, and rhyming verses to keep them interested, counting to ten doesn't have to be a boring task for children to learn. Pages filled with praise to acknowledge their achievement!

"What's he doing? Why isn't he staying with the group? Where's he going?" Timmy started to get scared, his heart beating fast as he heard the whispering. "Don't let him go. Stop him!"Timmy hates Mondays. No more having fun with his best friend Vance riding bikes to the park.The weekend was over and now it was time to go back to school.Timmy's teacher, Mrs. Ames, planned a trip to a cave for her fifth grade class since they had been studying history. The thought of going to a ...

It's hard for Maria to do some things her peers can do, she has autism. Catching a ball is difficult for her, but what's even more difficult is how she's looked at by other people. Relying on her imaginary friends, and the love of her parents to help her feel accepted, Maria's world takes a different turn when she meets Tara. Tara would rather hide than have to talk to that "weird" girl who lives down the street. Torn between her own feelings of guilt and the pressure from her friends, Tar...

"This is impossible," Tara said."Oh, but it is quite possible. And now that you have woke me, do you mind telling me who you are, and why you have disturbed me?"Excitement soon turns to sadness when Tara is invited to go to the carnival with her friends Bridgette, Lilly, and Josie. Realizing she's too small to ride on the Ferris Wheel, Tara walks away from the carnival and right into an adventure with Kyle, who has a message for her.

God will bring his heavenly city, the New Jerusalem, to earth, to the new creation, when Christ returns. The New Jerusalem will be the crowning jewel of his capital. Critical information about the size, shape, and timing of God's city throughout the Old Testament is often overlooked. These prophecies are carefully compared to New Testament revelation. The assembled puzzle reveals an exciting picture of what heaven on earth will really be like. This expanded edition of What on Earth Is ...

From the beloved bestselling author of Home Safe and The Year of Pleasures*,* comes a wonderful new novel about women and men reconnecting with one another—and themselves—at their fortieth high school reunion.To each of the men and women in The Last Time I Saw You, this reunion means something different—a last opportunity to say something long left unsaid, an escape from the bleaker realities of everyday life, a means to save a mar...

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Christmas Cheer will warm readers’ hearts and spread the wonder of the holiday season with its tales of love and joy. A fantastic holiday gift for the young and young at heart.Everyone loves Christmas and the holiday season. We reunite scattered family members, watch the wonder in a child’s eyes, and feel the joy of giving gifts. The rituals of the holiday season give a rhythm to the years and create a foundation for our lives, a...

Bakerton is a community of company houses and church festivals, of union squabbles and firemen's parades. Its neighborhoods include Little Italy, Swedetown, and Polish Hill. For its tight-knit citizens -- and the five children of the Novak family -- the 1940s will be a decade of excitement, tragedy, and stunning change. Baker Towers is a family saga and a love story, a hymn to a time and place long gone, to America's industrial past, and to the men and women we now call the Greatest Genera...

Phil is on a mission. His absentminded little brother forgot his lunch money. All kinds of thoughts are running through Phil's mind as he searches for Jimmy in the throngs of fourth and fifth graders crowding the school hallway:...if I'm late for math today, then I might not be allowed to take the test -- and then I could flunk math! I might even flunk sixth grade and get left back!Then Phil spots Jimmy's one-of-a-kind jacket and rushes to the corner of the hallway. Except ...

This new collection holds the best 101 stories from Chicken Soup for the Soul's library on the special bond between mothers and daughters, and the magical, mysterious similarities between them.How often have you seen a teenage girl pretend to be perturbed, but secretly smile, when she is told that she acts or looks just like her mother? Fathers, brothers, and friends shake their head in wonder as girls “turn into their mothers.” This book contains the 101 best stor...

In News from Heaven, Jennifer Haigh—bestselling author of Faith and The Condition—returns to the territory of her acclaimed novel Baker Towers with a collection of short stories set in and around the fictionalized coal-mining town of Bakerton, Pennsylvania.Exploring themes of restlessness, regret, redemption and acceptance, Jennifer Haigh depicts men and women of different generations shaped by dreams and haunted by disappointments.Janet ...

Freddie didn't know sea monsters existed, but he finds out when he goes fishing with his grandpa.This is the first story in the Freddie and Foxy picture book series. Foxy the fox cub is Freddie's best friend. Together they experience exciting and sometimes dangerous adventures while staying with grandma and grandpa in the Icelandic countryside.Vivid illustrations in watercolour by Karl Johann Jonsson bring life to the unique characters inspired by Icelandic culture and folk...