Books with author Deanne Gray

Kids will love this frightening book that plays spooky sounds and even doubles as a Pumpkin! Here's a great follow-up to our best-selling Musical Christmas Tree. This unique search-and-find Halloween book opens and stands and looks just like a fun pumpkin decoration! Visit Pumpkin Town and discover the silly, spooky characters who live there. You'll be sure to have a frightfully good time as you search and find spiders, bats, witches, and ghosts. Press the button to play eerie sounds and turn it off whenever you want--replaceable batteries are included. When you're done reading, use the Velcro tabs to join the covers together and make the book stand up just like a real pumpkin!

It has been eight years since Hope’s mom died in a car accident. Eight years of shuffling from foster home to foster home. Eight years of trying to hold on to the memories that tether her to her mother. Now Sarah, Hope’s newest foster mom, has taken her from Minneapolis to spend the summer on the Nebraska farm where Sarah grew up. Hope is set adrift, anchored only by her ever-present and memory-heavy backpack. Accustomed to the clamor of city life, Hope is at first unsettled by the silence that descends over the farm each night. But listening deeply, she begins to hear the quiet: the crickets’ chirp, the windsong, the steady in and out of her own breath. Soon the silence is replaced by voices, like echoes sounding across time — the voices of girls who inhabited the old farmhouse before her. Reluctantly, Hope begins to stretch down roots in the earth and accept this new family as her own.

With a long list of her mother’s dos and don’ts swirling in her head, and with a ticket that will get her only halfway home at the end of summer, fourteen-year-old Megan Barnett boards the eastbound train. Her destination, the Mississippi River at Burlington, Iowa, is twenty-four hours and a host of unfamiliar seatmates away. The most pleasant of these characters is Horace, an engineering student whose passion for newspapers, combined with a sharp curve of the tracks, land him nearly in Megan’s lap. The parade of interesting strangers—some of whom aren’t what they seem— doesn’t end with Megan’s arrival in Burlington, where she joins her sister’s family on the riverboat, the Oh My. River travel, as Megan quickly learns, is fraught with danger, both on the water and off. A keen eye, for seeing beneath the surface of things, can make all the difference.Leaving a trail of discarded rules and newspaper headlines in her wake, Megan takes on the river and reaps its rewards.

It has been eight years since Hope’s mom died in a car accident. Eight years of shuffling from foster home to foster home. Eight years of trying to hold on to the memories that tether her to her mother. Now Sarah, Hope’s newest foster mom, has taken her from Minneapolis to spend the summer on the Nebraska farm where Sarah grew up. Hope is set adrift, anchored only by her ever-present and memory-heavy backpack. Accustomed to the clamor of city life, Hope is at first unsettled by the silence that descends over the farm each night. But listening deeply, she begins to hear the quiet: the crickets’ chirp, the windsong, the steady in and out of her own breath. Soon the silence is replaced by voices, like echoes sounding across time — the voices of girls who inhabited the old farmhouse before her. Reluctantly, Hope begins to stretch down roots in the earth and accept this new family as her own.

Isaac, on the run from his oppressive stepfather, needs time to hammer out a plan for his future. Hannah needs space to mend the hurt of losing two brothers to the blizzard—space she can’t find in her family’s crowded soddie. Determination, a healthy dose of luck, and a handbill advertising a position for an “Apprentice in a Growing Business Concern” draw first one, then the other of these former schoolmates to the stately home of the unconventional Eliza Moore. Like the stumbled-upon haystack that sheltered Hannah and Isaac from the blizzard and saved their lives, Eliza’s house becomes a safe, if temporary, haven. One day Hannah and Isaac will need to face their lives again, out in the open. That day is coming all too soon. Author Dianne E. Gray based this fictional story on a real event in history: the “School Children’s Blizzard,” a fierce storm that engulfed the plains states on January 12, 1888. Striking many regions during the school day, the death toll included many rural children. In imagining the aftermath of this tragedy, Gray conceived two memorable young people whose stories are bound together by the storm.

Isaac, on the run from his oppressive stepfather, needs time to hammer out a plan for his future. Hannah needs space to mend the hurt of losing two brothers to the blizzard—space she can’t find in her family’s crowded soddie. Determination, a healthy dose of luck, and a handbill advertising a position for an “Apprentice in a Growing Business Concern” draw first one, then the other of these former schoolmates to the stately home of the unconventional Eliza Moore. Like the stumbled-upon haystack that sheltered Hannah and Isaac from the blizzard and saved their lives, Eliza’s house becomes a safe, if temporary, haven. One day Hannah and Isaac will need to face their lives again, out in the open. That day is coming all too soon.Author Dianne E. Gray based this fictional story on a real event in history: the “School Children’s Blizzard,” a fierce storm that engulfed the plains states on January 12, 1888. Striking many regions during the school day, the death toll included many rural children. In imagining the aftermath of this tragedy, Gray conceived two memorable young people whose stories are bound together by the storm.

Imagine sitting at your desk doing your work as usual, when all of a sudden the most beautiful tropical gecko appears...tame, and very friendly! It happened to me just like that July 3rd, 2013! Day after day he came to visit me on my desk. His gorgeous colors, funny personality, and blue eyes demanded that I name him, feed him, photograph him, and love him. As you get to know GORMAN you will fall in love with him too! A few days after GORMAN showed up on my desk, GRETA showed up. It was obvious they loved each other. On July 29th, 2013 I found two gecko eggs that were joined together! GORMAN & GRETA were expecting TWINS!!! The TWINS hatched on September 19, 2013! We are all so excited that you've joined our gecko family and the FUN, Smiles and LAUGHTER we are having on a daily basis!

Imagine sitting at your desk doing your work as usual, when all of a sudden the most beautiful tropical gecko appears...tame, and very friendly! It happened to me just like that July 3rd, 2013! Day after day he came to visit me on my desk. His gorgeous colors, funny personality, and blue eyes demanded that I name him, feed him, photograph him, and love him. As you get to know GORMAN you will fall in love with him too! A few days after GORMAN showed up on my desk, GRETA showed up. It was obvious they loved each other. On July 29th, 2013 I found two gecko eggs that were joined together! GORMAN & GRETA were expecting TWINS!!! The TWINS hatched on September 19, 2013! We are all so excited that you've joined our gecko family and the FUN, Smiles and LAUGHTER we are having on a daily basis!

With a long list of her mother’s dos and don’ts swirling in her head, and with a ticket that will get her only halfway home at the end of summer, fourteen-year-old Megan Barnett boards the eastbound train. Her destination, the Mississippi River at Burlington, Iowa, is twenty-four hours and a host of unfamiliar seatmates away. The most pleasant of these characters is Horace, an engineering student whose passion for newspapers, combined with a sharp curve of the tracks, land him nearly in Megan’s lap. The parade of interesting strangers—some of whom aren’t what they seem— doesn’t end with Megan’s arrival in Burlington, where she joins her sister’s family on the riverboat, the Oh My. River travel, as Megan quickly learns, is fraught with danger, both on the water and off. A keen eye, for seeing beneath the surface of things, can make all the difference.Leaving a trail of discarded rules and newspaper headlines in her wake, Megan takes on the river and reaps its rewards.

With a long list of her mother’s dos and don’ts swirling in her head, and with a ticket that will get her only halfway home at the end of summer, fourteen-year-old Megan Barnett boards the eastbound train. Her destination, the Mississippi River at Burlington, Iowa, is twenty-four hours and a host of unfamiliar seatmates away. The most pleasant of these characters is Horace, an engineering student whose passion for newspapers, combined with a sharp curve of the tracks, land him nearly in Megan’s lap.The parade of interesting strangers—some of whom aren’t what they seem— doesn’t end with Megan’s arrival in Burlington, where she joins her sister’s family on the riverboat, the Oh My. River travel, as Megan quickly learns, is fraught with danger, both on the water and off. A keen eye, for seeing beneath the surface of things, can make all the difference.Leaving a trail of discarded rules and newspaper headlines in her wake, Megan takes on the river and reaps its rewards.

It has been eight years since Hope's mom died in a car accident. Eight years of shuffling from foster home to foster home. Eight years of trying to hold on to the memories that tether her to her mother. Now Sarah, Hope's newest foster mom, has taken her from Minneapolis to spend the summer on the Nebraska farm where Sarah grew up. Hope is set adrift, anchored only by her ever-present and memory-heavy backpack. Accustomed to the clamor of city life, Hope is at first unsettled by the silence that descends over the farm each night. But listening deeply, she begins to hear the quiet: the crickets' chirp, the windsong, the steady in and out of her own breath. Soon the silence is replaced by voices, like echoes sounding across time — the voices of girls who inhabited the old farmhouse before her. Reluctantly, Hope begins to stretch down roots in the earth and accept this new family as her own.

The plains tribe sorcerer Fvlad is gathering forces to conquer the lands and enslave the minds of the Villagers. Dovella must travel to a nearby Forester village of skilled shagines to learn how to harness her extraordinary gifts so that she can protect her village from the invading sorcerer. The sorcerer captures Dovella and tries to bend her will to his own ends. But do even Fvlad's own followers know the true extent of his ambitions? Author Anne Gray keeps her readers deeply involved in this fascinating sequel to Rites of the Healer. Fast-paced, suspenseful and full of unexpected twists, Healer's Touch brings to the fore contemporary issues like intolerance and the abuse of power in this beautifully plotted tale of an alternative world. Anne Gray lives in Hamilton, Ontario. She writes in several genres for both adults and children, but has a particular love for writing young adult fantasy.