Books with author Christopher Blazeman

The witch has returned and no one is safe.Almost a year has passed since Anika and Gretel's horrifying night in an abandoned cannery in the Back Country, and the subsequent beginning of their quest to the Old Country for answers to the mysteries of Orphism.But rumors are reaching the far shore that the evil Witch of the North, presumed dead since that night of terror, is alive and strong.And hunting again.But this time no one is safe.Everyone Gretel loves is in danger, and she must summon a new level of power and conviction to end her family's nightmare forever.

Using this book, students learn to draw stars with seven, eight, or more points, and formulate conjectures about their mathematical structure. They also assemble polygons into 3-D polyhedra and develop spatial intuition.Drawing Stars: Students develop a definition of star and find a procedure for drawing stars with seven, eight, nine, or more points. They also use stars to illustrate multiplication: for example, 2 x 4 = 8 describes two overlapping squares that form an 8-pointed star. Students discern mathematical properties of stars. They distinguish continuous stars (which can be drawn without lifting pencil from paper) from stars that consist of overlapping copies of simpler stars. Students formulate a conjecture that uses the Greatest Common Factor to predict whether a particular star will be continuous or overlapping.Building Polyhedra: Students assemble equilateral triangles, squares, pentagons, hexagons, octagons, and decagons to form symmetrical 3-D solids called polyhedra. This book allows students to experiment for themselves: Some combinations don't work, but students enjoy discovering the combinations that do fit together. Students develop spatial intuition that applies to the structure of molecules, to playground climbing equipment, and to geodesic domes. The book provides reproducible handouts of polygons to photocopy onto colored paper. Students cut out the polygons, fold the flaps, and attach them with small staplers. Completed polyhedra make an attractive wall display.These activities meet four distinct NCTM standards.

Full Cycle - winner of Best Inspirational Fiction in the 2017 Next Generation Indie Book Awards - tells the story of eleven-year-old Alex Peterson, whose physical disability makes him one of the least-athletic boys in his school. Still, Alex dreams of doing something unimaginable: the 200-mile, one-day Seattle to Portland bicycle ride. He soon discovers that if he's to reach even the starting line, he must overcome more than his physical disability. He must also find a way to revive his father's own long-dormant interest in cycling, and convince his dad to join forces with him, before they can achieve together what neither would on his own.

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Failed academic Frank Nichols and his wife, Eudora, have arrived in the sleepy Georgia town of Whitbrow, where Frank hopes to write a history of his family's old estate-the Savoyard Plantation- and the horrors that occurred there. At first, the quaint, rural ways of their new neighbors seem to be everything they wanted. But there is an unspoken dread that the townsfolk have lived with for generations. A presence that demands sacrifice. It comes from the shadowy woods across the river, where the ruins of Savoyard still stand. Where a longstanding debt of blood has never been forgotten. A debt that has been waiting patiently for Frank Nichols's homecoming...

WANTED.HEROES TO SERVE THEIR COUNTRY.The War against the Reds has dragged on for sixty years. The Continent sits divided. While the east still lives free, the west struggles under the thumb of the Soviet Menace. Despite endless campaigns - generation after generation of young men sent off to war - the front lines between the two states remains static. A stalemate. A zero-sum game.Gunny is certainly not the hero anyone expected - just sixteen, a girl from Saint Paul. But after scoring a record high on a mysterious school test, Gunny is whisked off to Boot Camp and soon finds herself in the gunner's seat of a Patton Tank. Could Gunny be the hero that finally breaks the stalemate between the US and the Reds? No, after all, what can one, young girl do against the might of the Soviet Army? But then again, the War has never had a hero quite like Gunny before...TANK: The Battle of Brigham Field is the first installment in the exciting action/adventure series TANK. Follow Gunny and the crew of number Seventy-Seven as they battle the Soviets in an alternate Twenty-First Century.

"Unforgettable. This book will stay with me the rest of my life." Amazon reviewer Andreams You can’t turn on the TV or pick up a newspaper without seeing "gay" in a headline: from the simmering showdown over religious freedom and gay conversion therapy, to bullied gay teens tragically taking their own lives, to churches splitting right down the middle over gay rights. Few social issues ignite such passion from all sides. For those who see homosexuality as a choice and a sin, the notion of gay marriage is intolerable. For those who are gay, being excluded and shamed is simply intolerant. Bryan Christopher’s life has been spent straddling this great divide. As a boy raised under the blinding Friday Night Lights of the Texas Bible belt, from the playground to the pulpit one message was consistent: “queers” deserved to be smeared. And at the dawn of puberty, a 13-year-old Bryan knew he was in trouble: he was staring limply at the pages of his dad’s Playboy. That's when the hiding began. And in his neck of the Southern Baptist woods, it left him with one viable option: change. "Hiding from Myself: A Memoir" chronicles his zealous and unconventional crusade: from ringing doorbells for Jesus in the Castro of San Francisco to sorting through Hugh Hefner’s dirty laundry as a butler at the Playboy Mansion; from drowning in the beer-soaked trenches of his UCLA fraternity house to plunging headfirst into evangelical Christianity and "ex-gay" conversion therapy. With this raw and moving testimony, the author offers healing and a fresh perspective on perhaps the most divisive cultural issue of our time. Bryan's story is not a "gay" story or even an "ex-gay" story; his is a human story—a testament to the innate universal need for love. And the things that can sometimes get in the way...

In 1775 Cherokee leaders sold most of Tennessee and Kentucky to the recently arrived white settlers, but Dragging Canoe, a proud chief, said that the sacred land should not be defiled by the white man's ax and plow. "This is the Dark and Bloody Ground!" he proclaimed to the assembled chiefs.Perhaps it is the abundance of decaying mansions that harbor dark and sinister secrets, or perhaps it is Tennessee's tragic heritage of war and defeat, or it may just be the love of a good story that accounts for the fact that Tennessee is steeped in strange tales. Each of these 40 accounts has been exhaustively researched and is presented as accurately as possible, inclulding:The day in 1877 when it rained foot-long snakes in MemphisThe arch rivals who are buried in the state capitol building; on quiet nights one can still hear them arguingElvis's ghost, who visits Graceland in the early morning in his black limousineThe mathematics professor from the University of Nashville who suddenly burst into flamesAndrew Jackson's encounter with the infamous Bell WitchThe vampire found in Bradley County, with a wooden stake through her heartThe day a UFO buzzed Huntsville, Chattanooga, and Knoxville