Books with author Alyson Rodriguez

Snow Richards is a shy seventeen year old girl. She's always kind of blended into the background, although she's never had a problem with that. Her life has been the opposite of easy in every way. Her mother died in a car accident when she was ten and Snow became the mother of the family. She cared for her father when they found out he had cancer and practically raised her brother younger brother Rain. Now she needed a job to keep them afloat as medical bills suffocated them. Finally she found one as a maid for a wealthy family: the Johnson's. Snow just wanted a job, but she was surprised by their caring son Ryan and how sweet he was to her. The whole family practically took her in. She doesn't want them to get too close though. Her burdens were her own. But when they keep trying to edge their way in, how will she handle it? How much more could she carry before she finally shattered like glass? (A short novella less than 30,000 words)

Nick Knowles has a hard time understanding people. She's got an IQ over 200 with a memory like a tape recorder, and yet expressions and social cues have always been a mystery to her. Anger however, anger and hatred, she knows very well. Ever since she lost her eye by her mother's own hand, she's known exactly what those toxic emotions feel like. Nick is surrounded by them every day after all, and at seventeen, she'd growing tired of it. She's tired of pretending to be stupid, tired of the beatings, tired of the lies, and tired of her own inability to do anything to change things. That's when her old friend, Lucas Tsutaya shows up. Nick hasn't seen him in five years now. Too much has changed for her to even consider being his friend again. All she needs is her friend Vicky and her violin. She doesn't need someone looking into her life and finding out her secrets. But Lucas has a way about him that makes his voice just as beautiful as the violin she plays. Nick knows she's making a mistake, but for the first time in her life, she wonders if friendship and emotions are a mistake worth making.

The excitement continues in this second series of Theodore and Taylor’s adventures. Join them as they begin to train the new apprentice wizards and face many battles with the evil wizards who are trying to keep them from fulfilling their destiny. Learn how to capture a leprechaun and find out how they earn the money they hide. Meet the Tooth Fairy and learn her secrets of how she knows whom to visit and how she earns the money she leaves. The trolls, fairies and alterers, too, are waiting to share their secrets with you. Do not delay, not one minute more. It is time to enter that magical door.

Theodore Da Baer, an adventure into the world of magic and wizardry, follows the mishaps of a German boy as he follows his dream to become a wizard. Just as his dream comes true, the king orders all wizards to be put to death. To save white magic, the great wizard Viz turns Theodore into the world's first teddy bear. Viz tells him in the future a great wizard will be born. This wizard will hold the key to his return to his human form. If by her 18th birthday, she had not returned Theodore to his human form, he would remain a stuffed bear forever. Satan sends an evil wizard into the future to stop Theodore from fulfilling his destiny. Theodore lives through many adventures while awaiting the birth of the new wizard. In 1993, the new wizard is born. During her training, Theodore and the new wizard share many wild adventures, until that fateful day when white and black magic clash. Will white magic survive? Will Theodore remain a stuffed bear? Only the book knows the answers. And it is waiting to share its secrets with you.

The Cycle of Life is a beautiful story about the friendship and love between Cal, the caterpillar and Ernest a bird. Share in this delightful story as this unlikely pair become friends. Laugh with them as they share in fun adventures. Cry with Earnest as he loses his best friend and searches for the answers to life. This book is a must read for anyone who has lost someone they love and is searching for answers.

Miracles do happen: When happy-go-lucky Jacinto, together with his corn-carrying donkey and his charming whistle, arrives into a sad little town, he’s made fun of by Anselmos’ men. His donkey along with his harvest of corn is taken from him. Rescued by Tovar, a wise old man, Jacinto learns from him that Anselmo with an army of thugs rules the town with an iron fist. No one was allowed to be happy, smile or much less whistle. Jancinto learns from Tovar the secret of how to get the people on his side and teach them to be happy again. Jacinto sets out to challenge Anselmo and forces him to give up and leave. Jacinto’s whistle will touch your heart.