This story is dedicated to children with special needs and where they stand in the world around them. In this book, " I see you" illustrates the struggles that children with special needs experience day to day. Each page orchestrates a child's feelings in every real-life experience and my goal is to ensure that every child is seen. Our world needs to understand their experience and how beautiful they truly are...

Fear will keep you alive—and other famous last wordsIn this young adult fantasy novel, Zap just wants to be a normal boy with no magic powers that would make him responsible for terrible things he'd rather forget. He's the apprentice of the water mage, but he's terrified of water. Despite all his efforts to get away from this dreadful element, he must face his fear to keep a promise to his mother and save the world from the spirit of disorder.

How Distance Saved My Relationship is a raw, emotional memoir of betrayal, heartbreak, and unexpected healing. After discovering her partner of six years was cheating, a mother of three finds herself shattered during what should have been the happiest time of year—Christmas.When an unexpected opportunity sends him overseas for work, what seemed like the final blow to their relationship becomes the beginning of something new. Through pain, long-distance, and deep soul-searching, bot...

Dusty Counts to Ten and Back Again is based on an actual event. One day, Dusty took her treats and aligned them on the perimeter of her bed before she ate them. She didn't count them, but everything up until that point in the story is true. Dusty was an American Pit Bull Terrier who was about three years old at the time. I don't know why she put her treats around her bed like she did, but it made for a great story.

Welcome to A Warm Mug of Cozy Anthology: Volume 2!A Warm Mug of Cozy was launched in October 2022 to promote the cozy mystery genre through interviews, reviews, resources, and news for readers and authors alike. Its creators, Cendrine Marrouat and David Ellis, are established multi-genre authors themselves who love promoting books, stories, movies, shows, and art that inspire people.A Warm Mug of Cozy Anthology: Volume 2 featuresnine tantalising tales that...

Trapped in a universe a billionth the size, Jawan must master magic and science to survive.Apprentice mage Jawan faces living subatomic particles who believe he is their savior—amid chaos that could destroy two worlds.The purple plague has claimed his parents, and even the magic of the powerful earth mage who trained him, cannot find a cure. Determined to save his world, Jawan embarks on a perilous quest through the Quantum Realm, confronting renegade forces, unlocking hidd...

Stepping through the door of no returnChloe loves to listen to music, but when the music starts listening to her, she begins to wonder. Try as she might, she can't dismiss the strange things happening in her life as mere coincidence. Could some spirit be trying to send her a message? She tries to live a normal life as a student at California State University, but the more she tries, the more bizarre her life become. From the moment Chloe consults a Candomblé priest...

This book provides in-depth coverage of children's literature with integrated reading methods in a concise, accessible format. Johnson emphasizes that reading, writing, discussing, and finding pleasure in children's books are essential tools in being able to recognize and recommend literature, and being able to share the joy of children's literature with children themselves. This fully updated third edition includes up-to-date research, new book titles within each chapter, a greater focus ...

Welcome to the very first cozy mystery anthology release in an ongoing planned series of anthologies compiled by the team over at A Warm Mug of Cozy!A Warm Mug of Cozy was launched in October 2022 to promote the cozy mystery genre through interviews, reviews, resources, and news for readers and authors alike. Its creators, Cendrine Marrouat and David Ellis, are established multi-genre authors themselves who love promoting books, stories, movies, shows, and art that inspire people.

This eBook+ version includes the following enhancements:-Points2Ponder boxes with questions and clickable answers-Active URLs to vist external related websites and resources-Links to up-to-date Companion Website-Strategies and examples of practice and student work.This book’s unique and engaging voice, supported by its many resources, will help future and in-service teachers bring the language arts to life in their own classrooms.This book he...

Rhonda's world starts out normal enough. Well, almost. Her family taught her to read before she started school, so in the first grade she is placed in a class for the smart kids. Everything goes downhill from there. As the world of hearing and vision slowly fades, she struggles in a world that refuses to acknowledge her disabilities, but interprets them as a lack of common sense and attentiveness. Her spiritual world is usurped by the Word of Faith movement, which teaches her that prayer a...

In today’s high-stakes testing environment, integrating technology into the curriculum is often seen as something “extra” or for use with a few special projects. With the growth in Internet use by even the youngest children, educators urgently need a practical introduction to online literacy and reading comprehension. Reading, Writing, and Literacy 2.0 offers that and more by providing tools and teaching strategies for incorporating online readin...