Books with author A. Stevenson

Since his girlfriend dumped him, Jayden has been avoiding school-and life in general. When his eccentric uncle Mel invites him to help with his biology research at an Australian university, he figures he has nothing to lose. Once he arrives, he discovers Mel is obsessed with finding a new species of lizard and is determined to be the first to discover it. Unfortunately, this means an expedition into the scorching desert heat of the Australian outback...with the increasingly paranoid Mel and an unfriendly biology student named Natalie. Then disaster strikes, and Jayden and Nat find themselves many miles from civilization fighting for their survival.

#1 Best Seller in Kindle eBooks > Children's eBooks > Ages 6-8 > Action & Adventure (July 2013) Bedtime Stories: A Collection of Short Stories for Kids, is a collection of eight short stories for children (ages 4-8). It can be read as a bedtime story book for your little girl or boy. A book children will enjoy reading. You can also read the stories aloud to them. The stories included in the collection are :Jumpy the Jumping Rabbit – Jumpy the rabbit loves jumping, will this habit of his get him in trouble in school?Lisa and the Little Brown Birds – Find out how Lisa helps the Little Brown birds when one of the chicks refuses to fly.Joey and Strawey – Who is this alien that has landed in Joey's backyard and what does he want from Joey?Tipsy the Confused Mouse – Tipsy keeps forgetting his way back home. Find out the challenges he has to face because of this and how Tipsy is able to find his way back home.Billy and his Spacecraft – Billy and his father build a spacecraft that can travel to the moon. What does Billy find on the moon?The Beaver Lodge – What does Justin Beaver and his family do when their Beaver Lodge is swept away by the rains.Jimmy the Mischievous Monkey – Does Jimmy learn his lesson?Chester the Flying Squirrel – Read about the aventures of Chester the Flying Squirrel, the jungle's flying protector.Other Books in the Series: Bedtime Stories 2: A Collection of Short Stories for Kids

Sixteen-year-old Dylan has never met her father. She knows that her parents were just teenagers themselves when she was born, but her mother doesn't like to talk about the past, and her father, Mark, has never responded to Dylan's attempts to contact him. As far as Dylan is concerned, her family is made up of her mother, Amanda; her recently adopted younger sister, Karma; and maybe even her best friend, Toni. And then, out of the blue, a phone call: Mark will be in town for a few days and he wants to meet her. Amanda is clearly upset, but Dylan can't help being excited at the possibility of finally getting to know her father. But when she finds out why he has come―and what he wants from her―the answers fill her with still more questions. What makes someone family? And why has her mother been lying to her all these years?

Cassidy Silver is not having a good year. Her engineer father is in the Middle East, her artist mother is too busy to listen to the painful details of her daughter's grade seven life, her genius younger brother is being bullied, and her best friend Chiaki has abandoned her to hang out with the meanest girls in school. Then Cassidy meets Victoria, who is telekinetic -- she can move objects with her mind. Cassidy, desperate to not be the only ordinary person in her family, thinks learning telekinesis could be the answer to all her problems. But is Victoria telling the truth? And is telekinesis really the solution?

A hilarious encore to Don't Make Me LaughNo laughing or smiling or giggling -- Mr. Frimdimpny doesn't like it. He's the crocodile in charge of this book, and he never laughs. Follow his rules or else! This humorously subversive picture book invites brave readers to join Freddy Fafnaffer, the pig, in disobeying the bossy Mr. Frindimpny, in three comic acts. The first presents Mr. Freshley Prest Panz, Jr., who is about to receive the prize for best-dressed man in the world. The second act features the World's Tiniest Circus, definitely worth the price of admission. Act three starts with the warning NEVER take a red balloon to a fancy concert -- but someone ignores this advice. Remember, no laughing!

Calculus Baseball is your personal road map to baseball success!... and yes, there are secrets to successfully developing youth and high school baseball players.What are these secrets?Would I save money and valuable development time if I knew these secrets?Did you know that only 2% of all high school baseball players move on to play baseball at the next level? Why then, does the average U.S. family invest over $30,000 or more over a ten-year process to develop a baseball player for just a 2% chance to see a return on their investment?Many youth baseball players enter their high school baseball systems one, to two or more years behind other players based on knowledge of the game.I witnessed this as a high school baseball coach ...... and also knew that these same players were so far behind other players, that they would most likely never play varsity level high school baseball.I was fortunate enough to play the game into my early twenties, and coach baseball for another thirty years as not only a high school coach, but an elite club coach, and youth coach.I wrote Calculus Baseball to help parents navigate their player's development years, improve their chances for success, and save them thousands of dollars in the process. I tell this story through the eyes of a data scientist, because that's how I make a living while writing about baseball.Calculus Baseball will have a profound effect on you as the reader ...... you will discover the hidden secrets to developing successful baseball players.You will enjoy this book, not only because of your newfound knowledge that will save you thousands of dollars, but because the book is funny, entertaining and full of real-life stories.Get it now.

Abortion is one of the most common of all medical procedures. But it is still stigmatized, and all too often people do not feel they can talk about their experiences. Making abortion illegal or hard to access doesn't make it any less common; it just makes it dangerous. Around the world, tens of thousands of women die from unsafe abortions every year. People who support abortion rights have been fighting hard to create a world in which the right to access safe and legal abortion services is guaranteed. The opposition to this has been intense and sometimes violent, and victories have been hard won. The long fight for abortion rights is being picked up by a new generation of courageous, creative and passionate activists. This book is about the history, and the future, of that fight.