Books with author Christy

Follow a girl through her day in a busy city as she travels to school and back again in this inviting book that teaches directional concepts like over, under, and through.Out the door, down the stoop, past the neighbors, along the block ...Through tree-lined streets, onto a crowded subway car, into the classroom with friends, and finally, retracing her steps back home again. There's so much to see in Christy Hale's warm, richly textured collage artwork and simple, evocative text set in a busy Brooklyn cityscape.Out the Door is the perfect back-to-school book for young kids learning to find their way around a city. Parents and teachers can use this read-aloud to familiarize kids with a host of directional words to describe their first school days.

Love and Freedom Are Worth the FightSafely hidden away in the Eastlands, Karas and the surviving Strikers train for the day when they can finish the task they were always fated for: Infiltrate Texas. With each passing year, their immunity to the bioweapons Texas uses against the world diminishes. They’re running out of time. Over a hundred years of war and destruction could end, but only if the Strikers can achieve the impossible before their bodies betray them.When Texas unleashes another bioweapon, this time to clear land so they can expand, the Strikers are left with no choice. Karas and crew must venture across a devastated landscape and into innumerable dangers. They are determined to stop Texas. No risk is too high, no sacrifice too great. For Karas, losing Jovan is the greatest risk of all, but if they win, they will have won a life together. That’s worth fighting for.Strikers: Outlands is the final book in the thrilling science fiction trilogy, Strikers.

Savannah’s final year of college just went from bad to spectacularly awful. Instead of boring summer classes and dollar shot night, the world has gone insane. People everywhere are tearing each other apart. It’s not ideal.Survival is the goal and Savannah has never been good at waiting for others to take the lead. If only life after the end were that simple. Between badly run emergency shelters, cruel experiments, and hordes of ravenous screamers, everything stands in her way. Despite her best efforts to survive on her own, she finds herself with people who see more than a hard-partying girl with a knack for weapons. They see someone worth saving. As Savannah begins to realize the true strength of a trusted group, she also understands that she’ll do anything it takes to keep that group alive. No matter what, Savannah won’t let them become trapped forever between life and death.Savannah Slays is the exciting prequel to the Between Life and Death series, finally revealing the true origins of two character favorites; Charlie and Savannah. Savannah Slays can be read as a stand-alone, as a prequel, or after the main series.

Kami thought she'd seen it all as a small time reporter for a New York Paper, but after hearing reports of the dead crawling from graves and attacking humans, she realized the world she once knew would never be the same again. Forced to flee the city, she heads south where her two best friends Emma and Lou reside in search of answers. As a drunken joke ten years earlier, the three friends made a vow that if the world went to hell they’d survive it together, no matter what. With the pact now a reality, they are forced to face a never ending tidal wave of the dead, tornadoes, earthquakes, and massive storms with hundreds of miles to go. Along with their new dog, Snack, the girls get closer to their destination but no closer to answers as to why their world is filled with such evil. Will their plan of survival keep them alive or will they drown in the sea of the dead?

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 unforeseen medical emergency break the bond of the band?

Dark Collections - Volume OneThe End. Those two little words can mean so much. But how will things end...and will it hurt? That’s what we really want to know.Delve into the darkness and join us at the end of the world. From a blighted sky to an invasion from beyond, from untethered time to one person driven beyond the edge of sanity, from a child’s game to an unseen apocalypse...it’s all imagined here, and imagined darkly.Inside The Ways We End is a combination of new stories and previously published anthology tales, now re-imagined without word limits, including Cottage of Hunger, The Mergens, The Mountains of Five, The Bridge, Rock or Shell, and A Mother So Beautiful.

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 unforeseen medical emergency break the bond of the band?

Escape from Texas was only the beginning. Karas and crew are free, but freedom is relative for a striker. Never sure when trouble might find them, they’ve spent a year trading along the great river and exploring the world they’ve only just discovered is real. It’s a good life, but life on the sea is a treacherous thing. When a hurricane traps them between open ocean and the mysterious land of Florida - a place from which no visitor returns - they find themselves in greater danger than ever before.Florida turns out to be more than a secretive place that hoards technology. It’s a land filled with dangerous plots and even more dangerous people. Texas is Florida’s enemy and nothing else matters except victory. Strikers like Karas and her friends are exactly what Florida has been looking for. Within their bodies they hold the keys to victory and Florida wants to posses those keys, no matter the cost. Whether or not the friends can survive contact with Florida will depend on how deeply they can dig into themselves for strength...and how much they’re willing to sacrifice.Strikers: Eastlands is book two in the exciting dystopian series, Strikers.

“Happily ever after is hers for the taking.”Once upon a time I found myself locked away in Spindle Ridge Asylum, punished for a murder I didn’t commit. It was all part of Maleficent’s evil plan. I didn’t remember who I was then … now I do. My name is Aurora, and I am the rightful queen of this realm. Armed with my memories, I’m ready to take charge of my kingdom once more. Happily ever after evades me, yet I long to claim it with my true love, Sawyer, beside me. That fairy tale ending seems impossible with him locked in the thralls of a sleeping curse. As much as I’d love to sit by his bedside and eagerly await a cure, I must first travel into the terrifying Dark Woods to stop Raven from stripping me of all that is rightfully mine. I am not only a queen, but a warrior who will fight for her kingdom. Some may die. Blood will be shed. But when this ending comes, I will settle for nothing less than a blissful ever after.

Here's a foolproof and inexpensive way to make charming, traditional silhouettes. Artist Betsy Christy has created a delightful selection of 29 original pictures that are so easy to cut out and make into silhouettes that even children can join in the fun.Appealing scenes include youngsters sledding, skating, building a snowman, and engaging in other seasonal activities; cute little girls chasing a butterfly, playing with a pinwheel, and walking in the rain; and boys playing with a puppy, pushing a wheelbarrow and riding a tricycle. Other cheerful designs depict leprechauns and fairies, reindeer and a carriage, butterflies and birds, and many other seasonal, animal, and floral scenes.Accompanied by concise, easy-to-follow instructions, the designs are crisply printed on one side of each page with solid black on the other. Just select the one you wish to cut out, remove that page, carefully cut out the small areas, then cut around the borders, and you've made a handsome ready-to-use silhouette. They're perfect for framing, mounting on a plaque, adhering to decorative accessories or trimming cards, lampshades, notepaper, posters, plus many other craft projects.

The Brown house isn’t a house you want to mess with. It’s that place where you and your friends go on a dare, but no one is brave enough to go inside, and if they do, they come out screaming. So when Brylee Branson and her family move in, it's not long before the evil things lurking in corners come out to play. Brylee just wants to acclimate to her new school but the ghosts in the house don’t make that easy. You see Brylee has a gift, one that the dead need and if she can’t help them they’ll make her friends pay with their lives.

Mama Midwife is the story of young Miso the mouse, whose mother is a midwife. When Mama rushes out of the house in the middle of the night during a slumber party, Miso's friends are intrigued! Is Miso's mama a superhero? A secret agent? Miso giggles at the theories and gathers her friends close to share the real-life adventures of a midwife. When Miso's dream of attending a birth in the forest comes true, she learns more about birth then she ever could have imagined.Whether a baby is born at home or in the hospital, midwives play an invaluable, powerful and often sacred role in many births. Mama Midwife is a hip and tender story that introduces children to midwifery, while celebrating and affirming our ability to birth.Preview the book at www.mamamidwife.com.