Books with author Andrew Smith

HAVE HOURS OF FUN WITH THIS UNICORN COLORING BOOK FOR GIRLS!Are you looking for a fun and playful gift to give to your little princess? Then this coloring book is perfect for her! This coloring book contains, not only unicorns, but also mermaids, and other cute creatures for her to draw. There are both simple and complex drawing in here for those who love all sorts of girls.In fact, I have included every image TWICE so she can have DOUBLE the fun.So add to cart to make her eyes light up!

HAVE HOURS OF FUN WITH THIS UNICORN COLORING BOOK FOR GIRLS!Are you looking for a fun and playful gift to give to your little princess? Then this coloring book is perfect for her! This coloring book contains, not only unicorns, but also mermaids, and other cute creatures for her to draw. There are both simple and complex drawing in here for those who love all sorts of girls.In fact, I have included every image TWICE so she can have DOUBLE the fun.So add to cart to make her eyes light up!

It’s no surprise that sugar has been on our minds for millennia. First cultivated in New Guinea around 8,000 B.C.E., this addictive sweetener has since come to dominate our appetites—whether in candy, desserts, soft drinks, or even pasta sauces—for better and for worse. In this book, Andrew F. Smith offers a fascinating history of this simultaneously beloved and reviled ingredient, holding its incredible value as a global commodity up against its darker legacies of slavery and widespread obesity. As Smith demonstrates, sugar’s past is chockfull of determined adventurers: relentless sugar barons and plantation owners who worked alongside plant breeders, food processors, distributors, and politicians to build a business based on our cravings. Exploring both the sugarcane and sugar beet industries, he tells story after story of those who have made fortunes and those who have met demise all because of sugar’s simple but profound hold on our palates. Delightful and surprisingly action-packed, this book offers a layered and definitive tale of sugar and the many people who have been caught in its spell—from barons to slaves, from chefs to the countless among us born with that insatiable devil, the sweet tooth.

What do you get if you cross a magical cat, a grumpy lasagne, a mad scientist and a tap-dancing bat … with … a small boy, a sock puppet, a heroic blacksmith, a mysterious butler and about ten thousand rampaging aliens?Good question ... I'm not entirely sure. But, if you throw in a ghostly dog, a miserable tax collector and a genius young woman in a lab coat then the answer is obvious; what you get is this truly marvellous book! The Rise of the Foctopus (an Aldo's Cat adventure) is an awesome tale of science and magic ... and biscuits, in a race against time, evolution, gravity ... and tentacles. It starts one dark and stormy night when a hapless scientist accidentally creates THE FOCTOPUS, an amazing multi-coloured creature with a taste for steel bars and global conquest. Suddenly everything and everyone is in peril and the sounds of POP-POPPING tentacles are EVERYWHERE. Now, a boy, a cat and an unlikely band of heroes must battle to save the world and halt the almost unpronounceable Foctopocalypse. The Rise of the Foctopus is perfect for fans of Roald Dahl, David Walliams and Andy Stanton ... or anyone else looking for a sparkling adventure sprinkled liberally with nonsense, strong female characters and a sarcastic cat.

Religious oppressors from the Brothers of Dawn have seized control of the realm and driven all non-human races into hiding. Fay is an Elven girl whose identity is kept secret, even from her. She discovers her adopted father is part of a secret resistance that plans to rescue a key member of their organization from the Brother’s of Dawn. When the attempt fails and her father is captured, Fayrinthia must set out on her own to rescue her father and defeat the Dawn before they succeed in their apocalyptic aims to destroy the world and have it reborn in the image of their god. Fayrinthia soon learns that she has a much bigger role in this than she realized. She discovers her true identity when she meets with her Elvish ancestors and learns that she is a child of prophecy. Only she has the power to stop the Brothers of Dawn and the birth of their evil god.

Jonah and his younger brother, Simon, are on their own. They set out to find what’s left of their family, carrying between them ten dollars, a backpack full of dirty clothes, a notebook, and a stack of letters from their brother, who is serving a tour in Vietnam. And soon into their journey, they have a ride. With a man and a beautiful girl who may be in love with Jonah. Or Simon. Or both of them. The man is crazy. The girl is desperate. This violent ride is only just beginning. And it will leave the brothers taking cover from hard truths about loyalty, love, and survival that crash into their lives. One more thing: The brothers have a gun. They’re going to need it.

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Sixteen-year-old Austin Szerba has always filled notebooks with the histories of his family and the narrative of his daily life, but his story takes an epic, dangerous turn when he and his best friend, Robby, accidently bring about the end of humanity by unleashing an unstoppable army of horny, hungry, six-foot-tall praying mantises on their small Iowa hometown. While struggling with their own confusing love triangle, the boys piece together the origin of the unstoppable soldiers from stories that have been locked away in an absurd underground bunker for decades.

The summer before Troy Stotts turns seventeen, his mother dies. Troy and his father barely speak, communicating instead by writing notes on a legal pad by the phone. Troy spends most of his time with his closest friends: Tom Buller, brash and fearless, the son of a drunk; Gabe Benavidez, smart enough to know he’ll never take over the family ranch; and Gabe’s sister, Luz, whose family overprotects her, and who Troy has loved since they were children. Troy and his friends don’t want trouble. They want this to be the summer of what Troy calls “ghost medicine,” when time seems to stop, so they won’t have to face the past or the future. But before the summer is over, their paths will cross in dangerous and fateful ways with people who will change their lives: Rose, a damaged derelict who lives with a flock of wild horses and goats; and Chase Rutledge, the arrogant sheriff’s son. Troy and his friends want to disappear. Instead, they will become what they least expect —brothers, lovers, heroes, and ghosts.

We were just kids when we met. . .He was the boy from down the beach.I was the transplant from Tennessee.He became my best friend.I became his best girl.And then . . . it became us.We shared things . . . our dreams, our secrets . . . first kisses and then our hearts.Seth Drake was my everything. My first crush. My first love. My forever passion. Until that day when everything changed through no fault of ours.I was crushed. We were crushed.

“I feel pity for you and all of your kind. Evil never knows the beauty of love, the strength of passion or the joy of laughter.”—Lythiral the UnicornTime is running out. Princess Elliney knows she only has a few days before the eclipse and the Unicorn’s power will wane sufficiently for her enemies to capture her. The noble beast is pursued by a fiendish demon and his hired assassin. He seeks her immortal tears to prolong the life of his captured love. Only Elliney, her Knight Valiant and an old hunter stand in their way. Now sneaking away from the castle at night doesn’t sound like such a good idea…