Books with author Christina Skye

Spark creativity and build critical-thinking skills with 50+ fun activities about engineering for kids ages 5-10 Watch your child’s eyes light up as they get excited about engineering, learn valuable knowledge, and have tons of fun. Awesome Engineering Activities for Kids is packed with more than 50 fascinating STEAM exercises, complete with step-by-step instructions, colorful pictures, and simple explanations of how and why the experiments work. Make engineering for kids easy and enjoyable with projects that use common, inexpensive household materials so they can play and learn anytime. From toothpick towers and marble runs to egg drops and water rockets, the activities in this book about engineering for kids will challenge and delight. This entertaining book about engineering for kids goes above and beyond to include: A range of activities―Explore different kinds of engineering for kids with lots of unique projects, like constructing a paper cup telephone, creating pendulum art, and making a fantastical flying dragon. STEAM connection―Discover the connection between each exciting engineering experiment and real-life science, technology, art, and math. Think like an engineer―Learn all about engineering with a brief guide to the different types of engineers, an explanation of what they do, and what kids need to know to become one. Unlock the world of engineering for kids with engaging STEAM exercises that help them learn, grow, and get creative. Let’s dive in!

Spark creativity and build critical-thinking skills with 50+ fun activities about engineering for kids ages 5-10Watch your child’s eyes light up as they get excited about engineering, learn valuable knowledge, and have tons of fun. Awesome Engineering Activities for Kids is packed with more than 50 fascinating STEAM exercises, complete with step-by-step instructions, colorful pictures, and simple explanations of how and why the experiments work.Make engineering for kids easy and enjoyable with projects that use common, inexpensive household materials so they can play and learn anytime. From toothpick towers and marble runs to egg drops and water rockets, the activities in this book about engineering for kids will challenge and delight.This entertaining book about engineering for kids goes above and beyond to include: A range of activities—Explore different kinds of engineering for kids with lots of unique projects, like constructing a paper cup telephone, creating pendulum art, and making a fantastical flying dragon.STEAM connection—Discover the connection between each exciting engineering experiment and real-life science, technology, art, and math.Think like an engineer—Learn all about engineering with a brief guide to the different types of engineers, an explanation of what they do, and what kids need to know to become one.Unlock the world of engineering for kids with engaging STEAM exercises that help them learn, grow, and get creative. Let’s dive in!

See how a life can change after just one bite.Because of one fateful night, Nathaniel Riley loses his girl, his family, and life as he knows it. His world has been turned upside down. One day, a normal teen living in the 1890's, the next a mythical creature he didn't know existed. How can he live with himself with deadly urges he can't control?He's a monster with a conscience who wants to make up for all the pain he's caused, but how can he do that when a fellow monster wants to take everything in his life away from him.Nathaniel Riley has lived for a long time. Before he met Megan, he had a family, another girl he loved and a world in which he was happy. Find out how it all changed in just one moment.This book is a prequel to the Moon's Glow Trilogy, available now:Riley's Secret, #1Riley's Torment #2Riley's Redemption #3

Megan Banks feels like an imposter in her own life; she doesn’t belong with her friends or with her parents, who ignore her. After a fire she’s indirectly involved with, she finds herself with two hundred hours of community service. It’s the charity she volunteers at that finally makes her feel like she belongs. These people, with whom she has nothing in common, mean more to her than her rich, selfish friends. But for some reason her supervisor, Nate Green, doesn’t want her there. He thinks she’s a self-centered rich girl who deserves to be in jail. After she’s threatened by the kids who started the fire, Nate and Megan form a strange friendship, built only for her protection. But the more she feels for him, the more he pushes her away.As they become closer, Megan knows Nate is attracted to her as well, but she also believes that he is hiding something. But she could never guess what he really is. Before she realizes what is happening, she becomes involved in a world she didn't know existed.In this strange new reality, can she finally find a place where she belongs?

Months after Megan and Nate's ordeal, they are finally happy and looking forward to the future. With Nate, Megan has found the family she always wanted, and after the night of their six month anniversary, they have something to celebrate. Their life together is solid and unbreakable—until an old enemy returns to wreak havoc on their lives.When Megan and Lauren are caught in a fight between the rivals, they find themselves trapped with a pack of savage werewolves during a full moon. After their predicament, they will be forever changed. That is, if they make it out alive. To save the girls, Nate and Joe must confront the past in order to save their future.In the aftermath of the horrific ordeal, the life that Megan and Nate have created for themselves is torn apart. Will they find a way to take back their happiness or will they let it slip away?

Is it possible to be at peace and content in life when you have so many regrets? After everything Megan and Nate have been through, things are finally looking up. A trip to Vegas solidifies their relationship, and everything is as it should be. Or is it? Megan is the happiest she’s ever been, and although Nate says he is too, she sees the torment in his eyes when he thinks she isn’t looking. She knows the guilt he feels for everything he has done weighs on him daily. But she hopes that one day he can let go of the past and finally live a life without regrets. After the note Nate found on his old enemy six months ago, he is determined to find out what it means, even if the answer puts him and his new pack-mates at risk.When Megan gets a call from her friend Adrian asking for her help to find his sister, she is compelled to join him. And everyone in their group is shocked at what they find. When they return home, controversy and tension erupts, creating more questions and few answers.In an unexpected twist, conflict comes between Nate and a friend he has known for fifty years. Will there be harmony in the pack once again, or will the anger and hostility rip apart their formerly tight knit group?

Avery is running: from her past, from her friends and family, and from her memories. But she doesn’t have a choice. It was her mother that made the decision to whisk her away from the only home she had ever known. It was her mother’s idea to move to Canada after a terrible tragedy that shook their happy existence. She chose a place where they can be safe and at peace, a place where nothing bad ever happens.Could Avery have changed her mom’s mind and stayed with her friends? Probably. Did she want to? No.Avery needed to forget her old life in Renwood, New York. It was there that her world changed in an instant and she could never look back.In her new city, they find a beautiful house in a great neighborhood next to a spacious, scenic park. They can’t believe their luck at having found the perfect place on such short notice and the price was simply too good to pass up.When Avery starts to settle into her new surroundings she meets new friends and a guy that might just help her move on. She couldn’t be happier of the choice to make such a drastic change. There are no reminders of her past and she is adjusting faster than she ever thought she could.Life is perfect. Or is it? What Avery and her mother didn’t realize is that running from one evil had only led them to another. After all, when something sounds too good to be true…it probably is.

Face it, you're stressed out. If it's not SATs, finals, or other tests, you're dealing with your cracked out parents, your sugar-high brothers and sisters or worse yet, bullies.You need a break and somehow zoning out in front of the TV or playing X-Box, Playstation or your PS3 isn't cutting it. You need a real relief.Well, what if I could tell you that there is a way to take away all your stress forever. It's quick and it's free and once you learn how to do it, you can go from stressed out to chilled out in seconds.It's called meditation and although the first thing you might think of is a skinny bald man sitting in Indian style on the top of the mountain, understand some of the most successful businessmen, movie and TV stars, millionaires and billionaires practice meditation.Chillax: Meditation for Teens is a great guide for meditation for beginners. It will teach you how to relax, remain stress free from the pressures of school, your girlfriend or boyfriend, your mom or dad or other annoying things. You'll learn how to use it combat bullies and remain with a mindfulness, focused way of thinking that will have you exceling.Whether you're interested in yoga, movement, mantra, buddhist, hinduism, astral projection, law of attraction, taoist, vipassana, transcendental, zen, zazen, kundalini, guided meditation, visualization, Heart Rhythm Meditation, acupuncture, acupressure, or even massage, Chillax: Mediation for Teens is a great book to start with.Recommended Books:Meditation For DummiesMeditations by Marcus Aurelius8 Minute Meditation: Quiet Your Mind. Change Your LifeMeditation within Eternity: The Modern Mystics Guide to Gaining Unlimited Spiritual Energy, Accessing Higher ConsciousnessDeep Meditation - Pathway to Personal Freedom: (AYP Enlightenment Series) Seven Spiritual Laws of Success by Deepak ChopraWishes Fulfilled: Mastering the Art of ManifestingThe Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living by Dalai Lama

Format: Printable PDF on CD-ROMEssentially a complete teacher's manual for the novel, this LitPlan Teacher Pack includes lesson plans and reproducible resource materials for Fever 1793.It includes:22 Daily Lessons Short answer study questions Multiple choice quiz questions Vocabulary worksheets for each reading assignment 3 detailed writing assignments Individual and group activities Critical thinking discussion questions 5 unit tests (2 short answer, 2 multiple choice, 1 advanced) Evaluation forms Review puzzles & games Bulletin board ideas Reproducible student materials And more! A Note About A Few Of The Many Different Assignments Included:There is a project in this unit. This project requires students to keep a journal modeled after the format of the novel. There are also three writing assignments in this unit, each with the purpose of informing, persuading,or expressing personal opinions. The first writing assignment asks students to talk about their dreams, like Matilda often does in the novel. The second writing assignment gives students several roles from which to write, all informing someone about the situation in Philadelphia during the outbreak of yellow fever. The third writing assignment asks students to persuade someone to get involved with a humanitarian organization and help others like Matilda does in the novel. Uses: These materials are geared for whole class use but are very easily adapted for independent study work, lit circles or book groups, home school use, or tutoring. If you have never taught this book before, this manual will give you a great foundation of materials on a variety of levels. If you have taught this book before, you might like to know that veteran teachers have told us they have found our LitPlan Teacher Pack manuals to be different from many other materials they have seen--and very helpful.

Annie is a ten-year-old homeschool girl who decides to find the perfect project for the local Science Fair. After several false starts and even a few disasters, Annie and her sister, Merri, think they’ve finally figured out the perfect project. Will they complete it in time? What will the judges think? Read and see!This book is a 'day in the life' of a homeschool family using the Unit Study approach. At the end, the author gives a book list (used in this Unit Study) as well as several hints and tips on teaching your own Unit Studies at home using items you probably already have or can get easily through your local library!

This is the first book in a series detailing the life and adventures of William Marshal. At the tender age of five, William was held hostage in King Stephen's court. Through his wit and bravery, he charmed the king and went on to become the sports hero of his day on the tournament field. He was a close friend of and advisor to Prince Henry. Marshal helped the prince wage war and promised to journey to the Holy Land for him. Marshal's tale takes the reader on a grand adventure as he seeks fame, fortune and most importantly chivalry and honor.