Books with author Amy Margaret

This Informative and wide-ranging series offers a behind-the-scenes look at 6 of the 10 presidential libraries in the United States. Along with biographical sketches of each president, young readers will learn about the libraries and museums through the exhibits and pictures featured throughout the book. Kids will learn about the U. S. government, and about recent history with this dynamic new series, full of primary sources. Each book is also filled with fun facts that will help keep kids' interest and will help them to relate to such a powerful figure as the president of the United States. As the father of the current president, George Bush is still very much in the public eye. But his own administration had many dramatic moments of its own, including the Gulf War Bush's early years, his studies at Yale, and his heroic stint as a WW II fighter pilot are covered. Readers will learn that one room of the library, located in College Station, Texas, is even devoted to Bush's sense of humor, showing clips from videos featuring the president himself in humorous sketches.

A brand-new edition of the Carnegie Medal-winning THE HAUNTING - written by internationally bestselling author, Margaret Mahy.'Strong and terrifying . . . The novel winds up like a spring. A psychological thriller' - Times Literary SupplementEight-year-old Barney has been haunted before. He thought it was something he'd just grow out of, like the imaginary friends his step-mother believes he has. But this time it's different. Footsteps follow him, there's a demanding voice barking orders and Barney begins to feel that sometimes his body is not his own at all . . .With the help of his sisters, Tabitha and Troy, Barney sets out to uncover the truth about their family secrets and to find out once and for all who it is who's haunting him.A thrilling ghost story about a 'mostly ordinary' family and a secret legacy.

A brand-new edition of the Carnegie Medal-winning THE CHANGEOVER - written by internationally bestselling author, Margaret Mahy.'A gorgeous, strange, unforgettable story . . . I more than loved it' Laini Taylor - author of Daughter of Smoke and Bone'A clammy hand pressed Laura down onto her knees beside Jacko's bed. It was the hand of terror, nothing less.'It was a warning. Laura felt it when she looked in the mirror that morning. There had been others: the day her father left home, the day she met Sorensen - the boy with the strange silver eyes.But nothing had prepared Laura for the horror of today. And now her little brother, Jacko, was fighting for his life after being sucked dry of his youth by the sinister Carmody Braque.Laura knows there is only one way to save Jacko; she must join Sorensen and use his supernatural powers to change over if there is to be any hope for her little brother.An unforgettable, supernatural romance.