Books with author Christy

A picture book that connects great works of architecture to the ways children build and play. Cupon cupstacking up, smaller, smaller, and growing taller!Children building-Concrete poetry-Pair them with notable structures from around the world and see children's constructions taken to the level of architectural treasures.Here is a unique celebration of children's playtime explorations and the surprising ways childhood experiences find expression in the dreams and works of innovative architects.Come be inspired to play-dream-build-discover!

A lake turns into an island.A cozy bay into a secluded cape.A gulf with sea turtles transforms into a peninsula surrounded by pirate ships.This unique information book for the very young switches between bodies of water and corresponding land masses with the simple turn of a page. Readers will delight as the story of Water Land unfolds and will see just how connected the earth and the water really are. This book has Common Core connections.

Was Lysa’s sacrifice enough to save the Earth?As the enormous spacecraft named Fluffy floats above a stunned Earth, humanity is again thrown into chaos. Humanity thought the Portal Invasion was over. The portals stopped as suddenly as they began, and Earth has barely begun recovering from the terror. Now, the sentient spacecraft and its crew tell humans how wrong they were...about everything.As Hub waits in the deep, dark vastness of space, the crew of the stolen spacecraft races to stop the tragedy soon to befall Earth. If only they could get humanity to stop fighting each other long enough to help save their own necks. The galaxy can open to humanity, if only they can summon the bravery to step through the door.In the thrilling conclusion to the Into The Galaxy duology, unlock the secrets to Hub, Earth’s past, and the future of every living thing on the unique planet, the one and only Earth.

The Once-Dead Queen is BornThe last time Veronica checked, the world outside was still dead…and still covered by the sort-of-undead remnants of humanity. That was this morning. Now, she has to run that gauntlet to try and save Emily, just as Emily once saved her.Four years ago the world was destroyed by medical nanites gone awry, leaving humanity divided into three groups: the living, deaders, and the horrific in-betweeners. Emily’s only hope for a cure lies eighty miles away at a military hospital where nanite treatments were once given, and she’s running out of time. Between Veronica and that hospital is a world of flesh-eating monsters and possibly something even worse…humans. If Veronica fails to get there, Emily will be trapped forever between life and death.Forever Between is book two in the exciting post-apocalyptic trilogy, Between Life and Death. With mild language and occasional violence, (and some very gross undead), this series is suitable for ages 16 and up.

The World is Dead. One Will Rise.Eighteen year old Emily has a system. She wakes, eats, brushes her teeth, then spends the morning bashing the monsters that gather at her fences. That’s labeled as cardio on her schedule. Vigorous cardio.The problem isn’t staying alive anymore. It’s being alone. Two years of solitude while surrounded by death is too much. When she starts having deep conversations with the birds roosting on her roof, she realizes she’s in real trouble.Going beyond her fences means almost certain death, but if she stays inside, insanity will eventually take her. When one of the monsters at her gate turns out to be the bearer of a message, Emily feels hope for the first time since the end came. There are others out there, but they’re in trouble and they won’t survive much longer without some help. If Emily can brave a trip through the mad, dead world, she might have a shot at a real life. She just has to survive the trip, and that’s not going to be easy.Between Life and Death: The In-Betweener is book one of the exciting post-apocalyptic adventure trilogy, Between Life and Death. This book can be read first, or you can dive back to the beginning of the end and read the prequel, Between Life and Death: The Book of Sam.

The world sees the portals as an invasion. For Lysa, they're an invitation.The portals appeared without warning. Every thirteen minutes they take a thousand humans, leaving exact duplicates in their place. Now, chaos reigns and no one is sure anyone is still the person they knew. Whoever is sending the portals has destroyed human society without firing a shot.Not everyone thinks the portals are a prelude to invasion. Lysa, a student far too bright for her own good, believes the portals might even be something wonderful. There must be a logical reason for the portals, and that means something alive and thinking on the other side of those shimmering holes in our reality. Her burning curiosity leads her to do the unthinkable; she leaps through a portal meant for another.What she finds is a galaxy teeming with life, worlds beyond imagining, and two terrible truths: Earth is in danger, and the portals are a one-way trip. Stranded in an alien civilization, Lysa will have to use her ingenuity to find a way home and warn Earth before it’s too late.Portals is book one of the Into The Galaxy Duology, an exciting action-packed adventure suitable for all readers.

Long Live the Once-Dead QueenBetween bashing heads and scavenging for what’s left, it’s all Veronica can do to keep going. She won’t give up though, not on the world, not on Emily, and most especially not on the possibility of a cure.At long last, she receives the answers she’s been waiting for, but nothing is easy except dying when the world ends. Not everyone wants a cure for the nanite plague, and some will do anything to stop it.As their growing group of survivors prepares to fight for the cure, Emily begins to manifest strange, new powers over the afflicted. She’s becoming something new, dangerous, and impossible to control. Can Veronica find the last bit of humanity inside Emily and bring a devastating new ally into the battle, or will Emily become an equally devastating foe?They say every cloud has a silver lining, but this time the clouds are smoke and the coming storm is a war that will decide the fate of the world. Will humanity survive or will everyone become trapped between life and death?Between Life and Death: Between No More is the action-packed conclusion to the main Between Life and Death trilogy! Find out the fate of everyone. Some will live, others will die...and some will live again.

Ten-year-old Roberto Álvarez loved school. He, his siblings, and neighbors attended the Lemon Grove School along with the white children from nearby homes. The children studied and played together as equals.In the summer of 1930, the Lemon Grove School Board decided to segregate the Mexican American students. The board claimed the children had a "language handicap" and needed to be "Americanized." When the Mexican families learned of this plan, they refused to let their children enter the new, inferior school that had been erected. They formed a neighborhood committee and sought legal help. Roberto, a bright boy who spoke English well, became the plaintiff in a suit filed by the Mexican families. On March 12, 1931, the case of Roberto Álvarez v. the Board of Trustees of the Lemon Grove School District was decided. The judge ruled in favor of the children's right to equal education, ordering that Roberto and all the other Mexican American students be immediately reinstated in the Lemon Grove School.This nonfiction bilingual picture book, written in both English and Spanish, tells the empowering story of The Lemon Grove Incident--a major victory in the battle against school segregation, and a testament to the tenacity of an immigrant community and its fight for equal rights.

Long ago the United States fractured into warring nations, peaceful times a fleeting thing and mistrust the only constant. Texas is the worst of them all, a cruel and totalitarian nation where crime is punished not with prison, but with a tattoo. For each crime a strike is marked upon the offender’s neck. At five strikes...death.Karas Quick is sixteen and already holds a strike, which doesn’t bode well for a long life. Unlike the elites, people like Karas can expect to be dealt with harshly. Any accident might be labeled a crime. Even so, she’s carved out a life with friends she loves and a decent meal every day...well, most days.When the elite guy she’s crushed on since forever risks his strike-free neck to help her out of a jam, everything goes wrong. Not only will her life be forfeit, but so will his. Even worse, every friend who knows what she’s done is equally doomed. They are left with only one option, the last option. They can try to escape Texas, they can go Striker. If they’re caught, they’ll die. The prize if they succeed is something they never imagined: freedom.Strikers is book one in the thrilling dystopian adventure series, Strikers.

Ever wonder what happened to the crew between the end of the last book and the epilogue? Wonder no more. In this holiday volume of the Between Life and Death series, there are no epic battles, no desperate search for the truth, no struggles to find love in a world of the dead. In Christmas Between Life and Death, the crew experiences the calm after the storm. With the smoke cleared and the battlefields left behind them, they now have to face a world that needs to be celebrated. They need to bring the traditions back.It’s time to re-imagine Christmas.NOTE: Christmas Between Life and Death is one long spoiler. If you haven’t read the series, don’t start here! Try reading Between Life and Death: The In-Betweener first.

What do Roadkill Rocky, Bossy Becca, and Pinhead Eddie have in common? Nothing. A rag-tag bunch of elementary school kids come together to form a rock and roll band and enter the Sun Valley talent contest. Will they be strong enough to overcome prejudice and see the dream of winning through, or will an unforseen medical emergency break the bond of the band?