Books with author Adrian Johnson

Patrick is having his first sleep-over at his grandmother's house. It's almost bedtime, but there's a problem-Patrick doesn't have a bed at Granny's. So Granny goes out to her yard, chops down some trees, and makes a comfy bed for Patrick. Now he can go to sleep. Right? Not yet. He doesn't have a pillow! So Granny dashes to the henhouse, collects some feathers, and sews a fluffy pillow for Patrick. Now he can go to sleep. Right? Not yet. A few other things are still missing . . . . If Patrick is lucky, this could go on all night!"Children will snuggle down with smiles on their faces after this comic spin on the paraphernalia associated with a common ritual." (Kirkus Reviews)

A new threat faces the world of Erdas in this continuation of the New York Times bestselling series.Split between two worlds, Conor, Abeke, Meilin, and Rollan are four young heroes who are racing to stop an ancient evil. Even the spirit animal bond, the sacred link between humans and animals, is on the brink of destruction.The friends face an enemy with the power to enslave others to its will-and to steal spirit animals away from their rightful partners. With their own allies falling to this darkness, the four must look to their bonds to light the way forward. But one of those lights is about to go out. Briggan, Uraza, Jhi, and Essix. Before their journey is over, one of these legends will be lost.

Did you know that anger isn't totally bad like we have always been taught?Children from my observation often experience strong and sudden bursts of emotion. Teaching children how to manage their emotions in a healthy way is an essential skill they need to have. This will go a long way to affect their growth and behavior in a positive way.I can assuredly tell you that helping your child navigate their emotions can sometimes feel like an enormous challenge, but it doesn’t have to be. That is the main reason why I wrote this book.In this self-help book for kids, we talk about anger, self-control, and good manners. We show the kids how they can apply this while playing together and tackling common, everyday challenges.The book offers practical solutions for parents on how to calm and redirect their child’s anger, as well as how to help them understand and manage this emotion.Using fun engaging and simple activities, this anger management book for children helps you teach your child how to recognize and cope with anger.While reading together, you will teach your toddler how to manage their anger in a healthy, positive way, and help your child grow confident and self-assured.If you're looking for an activity book for your toddler, preschooler, kindergartner or school-aged child, this cute and positive book helps kids build confidence while inspiring and entertaining them. It’s a fun and mess-free way to engage in emotional regulation for children, 5, 6, 7,8,9, and 10 years old.Help Children Better Cope with Anger Issues, And Lead Them To A Brighter Future.Children often experience strong and sudden bursts of emotion. Learning to manage their emotions in a healthy way is essential for their social development and for their well-being. Helping your child explore their emotions can seem like a huge challenge. From here comes: "I Am Angry""BOOK 1" In this self-help book for kids, Timon is a child who is always angry and unable to control his character whenever things go wrong. His parents are tired of his attitude and come up with ways to channel his anger or emotions in different ways, like doing better in class, doing chores in record time, and so on. Whenever Timon does something correct and correctly checks his anger, he receives a gift. But he also needs to understand why he is getting angry."BOOK 2"Timon and Anna are 2 best-friends in class. Timon is a lively child with a lot of potential, but he is always angry and that makes Anna very angry with his attitude. Anna's parents are extremely tired of her attitude, and constant ranting and tantrums and following a talk with Timon's parents, they come up with ways and means to control and properly channel Anna's anger. Together with Timon, Anna slowly starts to tune up her attitude, and help Timon with his anger problems as well. The book offers practical solutions for parents on how to calm and redirect their children's anger, as well as on how to help them understand and manage this emotion. Self-regulation and tolerance are essential social skills and will improve the emotional health of the child. This book on anger management for children helps you teach your child how to recognize and deal with anger.

Saving the school -- one con at a time."A political heist page-turner set in middle school? Is that even possible? Varian Johnson shows us how it's done." - Gordon Korman, author of SWINDLE "Do yourself a favor and start reading immediately." - Rebecca Stead, author of WHEN YOU REACH ME Jackson Greene swears he's given up scheming. Then school bully Keith Sinclair announces he's running for Student Council president, against Jackson's former friend Gaby de la Cruz. Gaby wants Jackson to stay out of it -- but he knows Keith has "connections" to the principal, which could win him the presidency no matter the vote count. So Jackson assembles a crack team: Hashemi Larijani, tech genius. Victor Cho, bankroll. Megan Feldman, science goddess. Charlie de la Cruz, reporter. Together they devise a plan that will take down Keith, win Gaby's respect, and make sure the election is done right. If they can pull it off, it will be remembered as the school's greatest con ever -- one worthy of the name THE GREAT GREENE HEIST.*"The lively (and racially diverse) cast of characters and the intricate plot will make this a story to read again for the sheer fun of it all"- Horn Book, starred review

When a video frames Jackson Greene and his friends for a crime they didn't commit, Gang Greene battles the blackmailers in this sequel to the acclaimed The Great Greene Heist.Jackson Greene is riding high. He is officially retired from conning, so Principal Kelsey is (mostly) off his back. His friends have great new projects of their own. And he's been hanging out a lot with Gaby de la Cruz, so he thinks maybe, just maybe, they'll soon have their first kiss.Then Jackson receives a link to a faked security video that seems to show him and the rest of Gang Greene flooding the school gym. The jerks behind the video threaten to pass it to the principal -- unless Jackson steals an advance copy of the school's toughest exam. So Gang Greene reunites for their biggest job yet. To get the test adn clear their names, they'll have to outrun the school's security cameras, outwit a nosy member of the Honor Board, and outmaneuver the blackmailers while setting a trap for them in turn. And as they execute another exciting caper full of twists and turns, they'll prove that sometimes it takes a thief to catch a cheat.

Use your imagination to add color and depth to these original abstract designs.Thirty-one full-page images offer a stunning variety of symmetrical patterns, each an unusual combination of swirling forms. Pages are perforated and printed on one side only for easy removal and display. Specially designed for experienced colorists, Abstract Designs and other Creative Haven® adult coloring books offer an escape to a world of inspiration and artistic fulfillment. Each title is also an effective and fun-filled way to relax and reduce stress.

Henry & Hailey Hockeysticks play hockey in the North Pole on Christmas Eve. It is a night filled with outdoor hockey on Polar Pond that ends with a sleigh ride for Henry & Hailey. Santa, Mrs. Clause, the elves and others also take the ice for this annual hockey game to see who will hoist Lord Santa's Cup! This adventure is filled with great hockey terminology which will be enjoyed by children and all hockey fans of any age.

Alfie likes to laugh―mostly at other people's misfortune. But Alfie's grandpa isn't always amused by the same things Alfie is. When Grandpa takes him to the circus, Alfie finds lots of people to laugh at along the way. But wait until Alfie learns that the last laugh is on him. Adrian Johnson's witty, retro illustrations add to the fun in this hilarious look at schadenfreude―the delight in others' misfortune.

"A political heist page-turner set in middle school? Is that even possible? Varian Johnson shows us how it's done." - Gordon Korman, author of SWINDLE "Do yourself a favor and start reading immediately." - Rebecca Stead, author of WHEN YOU REACH ME Jackson Greene swears he's given up scheming. Then school bully Keith Sinclair announces he's running for Student Council president, against Jackson's former friend Gaby de la Cruz. Gaby wants Jackson to stay out of it -- but he knows Keith has "connections" to the principal, which could win him the presidency no matter the vote count. So Jackson assembles a crack team: Hashemi Larijani, tech genius. Victor Cho, bankroll. Megan Feldman, science goddess. Charlie de la Cruz, reporter. Together they devise a plan that will take down Keith, win Gaby's respect, and make sure the election is done right. If they can pull it off, it will be remembered as the school's greatest con ever -- one worthy of the name THE GREAT GREENE HEIST.

The National Book Award–winning story collection from the author of The Orphan Master’s Son offers something rare in fiction: a new way of looking at the world. “MASTERFUL.”—The Washington Post “ENTRANCING.”—O: The Oprah Magazine “PERCEPTIVE AND BRAVE.”—The New York Times Throughout these six stories, Pulitzer Prize winner Adam Johnson delves deep into love and loss, natural disasters, the influence of technology, and how the political shapes the personal, giving voice to the perspectives we don’t often hear. In “Nirvana,” a programmer whose wife has a rare disease finds solace in a digital simulacrum of the president of the United States. In “Hurricanes Anonymous,” a young man searches for the mother of his son in a Louisiana devastated by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. “George Orwell Was a Friend of Mine” follows a former warden of a Stasi prison in East Germany who vehemently denies his past, even as pieces of it are delivered in packages to his door. And in the unforgettable title story, Johnson returns to his signature subject, North Korea, depicting two defectors from Pyongyang who are trying to adapt to their new lives in Seoul, while one cannot forget the woman he left behind. WINNER OF THE STORY PRIZE • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Miami Herald • San Francisco Chronicle • USA Today AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • NPR • Marie Claire • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • BuzzFeed • The Daily Beast • Los Angeles Magazine • The Independent • BookPage • Kirkus Reviews “Remarkable . . . Adam Johnson is one of America’s greatest living writers.”—The Huffington Post “Haunting, harrowing . . . Johnson’s writing is as rich in compassion as it is in invention, and that rare combination makes Fortune Smiles worth treasuring.”—USA Today “Fortune Smiles [blends] exotic scenarios, morally compromised characters, high-wire action, rigorously limber prose, dense thickets of emotion, and, most critically, our current techno-moment.”—The Boston Globe “Johnson’s boundary-pushing stories make for exhilarating reading.”—San Francisco Chronicle

A young girl’s life is shattered when she is stolen from her African village in a midnight raid. Ruthlessly torn from her family to be beaten, chained, degraded, and enslaved in a heartless world she can barely comprehend. The slave ledger at Virginia’s Belle Grove Plantation only reveals that Judah was purchased to be the cook, gave birth to 12 children, and died in April 1836. But, like the other 276 faceless names entered in that ledger, Judah lived. Brian C. Johnson’s important work of historical fiction goes beyond what is recorded to portray the depth, humanity, and vulnerability of a beautiful soul all but erased by history. For Judah, as Johnson notes, “did the ultimate—she survived. Not as a weakling, but resilient and determined.”

Children often experience strong and sudden bursts of emotion. Learning to manage their emotions in a healthy way is essential for their social development and for their well-being. Helping your child explore their emotions can seem like a huge challenge. From here comes: "I Am Angry"Timon and Anna are 2 best-friends in class. Timon is a lively child with a lot of potential, but he is always angry and that makes Anna very angry with his attitude. Anna's parents are extremely tired of her attitude, and constant ranting and tantrums and following a talk with Timon's parents, they come up with ways and means to control and properly channel Anna's anger. Together with Timon, Anna slowly starts to tune up her attitude, and help Timon with his anger problems as well.The book offers practical solutions for parents on how to calm and redirect their children's anger, as well as on how to help them understand and manage this emotion. Self-regulation and tolerance are essential social skills and will improve the emotional health of the child. This book on anger management for children helps you teach your child how to recognize and deal with anger.