Books with author Deborah Williams

Little Jia learns how to think and act like a world leader, because she is destined for presidency. She excitedly learns about world cultures in addition to her own Asian culture, in preparation for her destiny. Kids for President is an endearing and delightful picture book series that delivers to children an encouraging message of excellent character, leadership development, self-discipline, and self-acceptance.

Twelve-year-old House Jackson--star pitcher and team captain of the Aurora County All-Stars--has been sidelined for a whole sorry year with a broken elbow. He's finally ready to play, but wouldn't you know that the team's only game of the year has been scheduled for the exact same time as the town's 200th-anniversary pageant. Now House must face the pageant's director, full-of-herself Frances Shotz (his nemesis and perpetrator of the elbow break), and get his team out of this mess. There's also the matter of a mysterious old recluse who has died and left House a wheezy old dog named Eudora Welty--and a puzzling book of poetry by someone named Walt Whitman. Through the long, hot month of June, House makes surprising and valuable discoveries about family, friendship, poetry . . . and baseball. (20070701)

Ten year old Comfort Snowberger knows a thing or two about death. Her family owns the town funeral home and she has attended 247 funerals. She can tell you which casseroles are worth tasting, whom to sit next to, and whom to avoid at all costs. Number one on that Avoid list is Comfort's sniveling, whining, unpredictable cousin Peach, who ruins every family occasion. So when Great-great-aunt Florentine droops dead-just like that-Comfort expects a family gathering to remember. What she doesn't count on is: One, she has to watch over Peach after the funeral. And two, her best friend, Declaration, has suddenly turned downright mean. Now, even if it means missing the most important funeral of her life, all Comfort really wants to do is sit in hercloset with her dog, Dismay, and hide. But life is full of surprises. And the biggest one of all is learning what it takes to handle them.

Do you love to spend money? I am sure you do! Many teens and adults will spend their money without saving or creating a budget to meet their monthly needs. Making Sense Out of Nonsense: Budgeting and Saving for Teens, is the first of the Making Sense Out of Nonsense book series for teens. These books were written to teach teenagers about financial literacy which will guide them during adulthood. This book helps to dispel financial myths and negative financial patterns that may have passed on from previous generations.This book will assist teenagers to:· Learn how to create a budget.· Create and set financial goals.· Learn about saving and checking accounts· Learn how to avoid debt, and· Utilize financial tools for the future.

From two-time National Book Award finalist Deborah Wiles, the remarkable story of two cousins who must take a road trip across American in 1969 in order to let a teen know he's been drafted to fight in Vietnam. This is the masterful story of what it's like to be young and American in troubled times.It's 1969. Molly is a girl who's not sure she can feel anything anymore, because life sometimes hurts way too much. Her brother Barry ran away after having a fight with their father over the war in Vietnam. Now Barry's been drafted into that war - and Molly's mother tells her she has to travel across the country in an old schoolbus to find Barry and bring him home. Norman is Molly's slightly older cousin, who drives the old schoolbus. He's a drummer who wants to find his own music out in the world - because then he might not be the "normal Norman" that he fears he's become. He's not sure about this trip across the country . . . but his own mother makes it clear he doesn't have a choice. Molly and Norman get on the bus - and end up seeing a lot more of America that they'd ever imagined. From protests and parades to roaring races and rock n' roll, the cousins make their way to Barry in San Francisco, not really knowing what they'll find when they get there. As she did in her other epic novels Countdown and Revolution, two-time National Book Award finalist Deborah Wiles takes the pulse of an era . . . and finds the multitude of heartbeats that lie beneath it.