Books with author Amanda Alexander

Join The Wee Boys (even if you are a girl) for days of fun filled adventures. The Wee Boys book is packed with active stories that are exciting and funny to read. Follow the boys as they take a trip to the beach, go camping, play in the snow and oh so much more. Whether you like skiing, hiking or going to the zoo, there's something in this book for you.

What do you get when ordinary e-mail spam becomes infused with magic? Spellspam—and it's not supposed to exist. As far as Thea and her friends know, computers are meant to be inert vehicles for storing magic spells, not magical processors themselves. But all that seems to have changed as students at Wandless Academy find themselves the victim of practical jokes—with magical consequences—simply by opening an e-mail. Now the spellspams are getting worse, and it's possible there's someone behind them who is not just bent on stirring up trouble but has a much scarier and more wide-reaching agenda. Until now, Thea has been the only person she's ever met who can reach through the computer using magic. But someone else is out there, and even her friends can't help her track down the source of the spellspam before it gets much, much worse. This sequel to Worldweavers: Gift of the Unmage ups the ante on a fantasy world that is rich and nuanced, like our own, but with a core of wildly original magic.

“Ever wondered what that word meant?” “Oh… that was fancy, how did the speaker choose that word?” “Ah… what a powerful speech, wish I am so spontaneous!” As a matter of fact, it puzzles us when we think how someone can speak so eloquently. In fact, we can do it too! But how? Nope, it’s not easy to memorize a 600-page dictionary. Have you ever tried learning… in a fun way? You’ll be amazed at the tenfold better result. Well, the book you have in your hand is a choicest tool to get started! The Troubadour’s Collection is a promise to take you through an amazing world of inspirational poems, where you get to experience being a weekender, view the splash of colors shooting up your first missile, laugh your heads-off at the emperor’s new clothes and dare to walk with the graveyard’s host… and guess what? You would have already picked up new words, improving your vocabulary in a fun way!

This year at the Wandless Academy feels all wrong to Thea. Her best friend, Magpie, will barely give her the time of day. Ben's been moody and dismissive. Since when did Tess have a boyfriend? And why is Humphrey May, agent for the Federal Bureau of Magic, lurking around the Academy? Thea is out of sorts—in all ways, magical and otherwise—and that's before she discovers she's an elemental mage, a category of magician so rare that only four others are known to exist. Now the Federal Bureau of Magic needs Thea's help to unlock the mysterious white cube—the same cube found over the summer in the professor's house, the same cube the dangerous Alphiri are still after. To stay ahead of the Alphiri and the wiles of the FBM, Thea needs her friends—all of them. From a world woven with magic and suspense comes Alma Alexander's Cybermage, the final installment of the richly invented Worldweavers trilogy.

Most books about bullying tell children how to act without addressing how they feel—you can't act brave and confident if you feel stressed and helpless inside. Jenny Alexander's approach is to develop readers' psychological defenses. Through a mix of exercises, quizzes, and fictional scenarios, she combines common sense with simple cognitive techniques to build up children's self-esteem. Her tone is humorous and upbeat, but always sensitive to the reader's feelings.

What if all those lifelike little avatars in your PC game were real living human beings desperately trying to figure out the meaning of life as we know it? What if your favorite simulation computer game was being played out on a real planet far, far away? And what if that planet was also a life-size game for someone else and its creator was fast tiring of the usual fun and games and was ready for something completely different? Has the Earth finally reached its expiration date and become as obsolete as a game of Pong? Or can a brainy, if clueless, computer geek named Fred and a waitress/actress named Zoee save the Earth from being wiped out before the ultimate alien creator hits the delete key? Wildly original, shockingly funny, and full of pranks, word puns, and the wonderful absurdities of life, Alexander has filled his world with six legged dogs with telepathic abilities, aliens with Napoleonic complexes, and even Albert Einstein! You'll never look at your PC the same way again!