Books with author Elizabeth Cregan

Everything is made up of atoms. There are many kinds of atoms, and groups of one kind of atom come together to create elements. Physicists, the scientists who study atoms, ask questions like: What do atoms do? How do atoms interact with each other? They are also interested in the energy that atoms produce. For more information on atoms and physicists, read Marie Curie: Pioneering Physicist, another book in the Mission: Science series.

Andy’s best friend died saving him in a deadly game of traffic-chicken. Now Andy’s body is broken and his brain works differently. From the privileged life in Sydney of a Greek-Australian medical student, Andy is stranded in a netherworld existence with damaged people in a derelict Hunter Valley caravan park where cars are stripped of their parts and people of their humanity. At the verge of insanity, Andy must accept his new, real life to survive. He’s lost much, but gained intuition, empathy and an extraordinary skill. Fellow residents, including Lola, an ex-showgirl, and the mysterious and insightful Esther, need his help to escape the tyrannical, gargantuan Leo, owner of the park. Threatening bikies abound but Andy finds allies; a retired coal-miner, a former youth worker, a journalist and Casper, an ugly dog.Andy discovers evidence to solve a cold-case murder and helps local townsfolk thwart a casino development but is charged with murder after fire kills three men in the caravan park.While coming to terms with his new life and learning to live independently again, Andy believes he has become a better person than before the accident. He saves more than one life, rights wrongs, earns a bravery award and falls in love. The new existence he creates is a tribute to people who grow morally stronger in the face of evil, and demonstrates that it is better to successfully follow your own path than to struggle along the course someone else has chosen for you. The accident: 'Andy is too far gone to hear Chris shouting at him to get out of the way. He feels Chris grab his arm, then pull and push him, but it's too late, the cars are there. There's a bang as one hits Chris and clips Andy. Andy spins as Chris flies past, close enough but too fast for Andy to grab him mid-air, and thuds into a power pole at ground level. Andy bounces off the second vehicle like a rag doll, arms and legs flailing as he falls in a tangle. Brakes screech only after the boys are hit. The squeal of tyres, the screams of onlookers, and the bangs and thuds are a hellish symphony.'

Thomas Edison was called a wizard, which was a good nickname for one of history’s most famous inventors and the holder of more than 1,000 patents. Often improving upon the ideas of others, Edison and his assistants perfected the incandescent lightbulb, and created the first successful electrical power system, the alkaline battery, and the phonograph, which played recorded sound. Edison’s modern industrial research laboratory was one of the first, and he helped to start the motion picture industry. For more information, read Electromagnetism, another book in the Mission: Science series.

The dangerous and poignant odyssey of a tenacious young girl who boldly traverses the Texas frontier as she seeks to avenge her mother's deathEarly one morning in the remote Hill Country of Texas, a panther attacks a family of homesteaders, mauling a young girl named Samantha and killing her mother, a former slave -- whose final act is to save her daughter's life. Samantha and her half brother, Benjamin, survive, but she is left traumatized, her face horribly scarred.Narrated in Benjamin's beguilingly plainspoken voice, The Which Way Tree is the story of Samantha's relentless determination to stalk and kill the notorious panther and avenge her mother's death. In this quest she and Benjamin, now orphaned, enlist a charismatic Tejano outlaw and a haunted, compassionate preacher with an aging but unstoppable tracking dog. As the members of this unlikely posse hunt the panther, they are in turn pursued by a hapless but sadistic Confederate soldier with a score to settle. In the tradition of the great pursuit narratives, The Which Way Tree is a breathtaking tale of revenge against an implacable and unknowable beast. Yet with the comedic undertones of Benjamin's storytelling, it is also a timeless story full of warmth and humor and a testament to the enduring love between a sister and brother in an adventure whose legend will last a lifetime.

"I'd come to love how the ocean and sky looked from here, vast and beautiful, as they merged into a blue horizon. It reminded me of freedom, and home."Home. What Emma wouldn't give to be there now. Instead, she's barely surviving train explosions, hunting Pirates down the Great River, jumping off bridges, running from Raiders, and attempting rescue missions.Home. For Cameron, it's a dissolving fantasy. Arguing with what family he has left, searching for survivors from the train attack, fighting old friends and burying others, destroying the Pirates, and hoping that he and Emma will survive it all.From author C.B. Elizabeth, Blue Horizon is the final book in the New Freeland Trilogy.

Join PJ Mouse, Emily's adorable, slightly featherbrained stuffed animal, on this, his second adventure, along the coast of Queensland, as he snorkels at the Great Barrier Reef, chats with a Loggerhead turtle in the midst of a great undertaking, and explores the tropical rainforest - until he has to be rescued by one of the local friendly wildlife. Educational and fun for the young reader, the PJ Mouse books encourage kids to overcome their fears of the unknown and appreciate, and care for, the world around us.

After the perfect romance with sexy Josh Nelson, Sara Connelly is devastated to part ways and return to her hometown at summer's end. But Sara's spirits are quickly lifted when she finds out she's moving to Connecticut--where Josh lives! When Sara sees Josh in the halls of her new school, she knows they're meant to be together...until she meets Josh's girlfriend.Sara does what any intelligent, heartbroken girl would do--she tells Josh she has a boyfriend. And she does...kind of. Her new buddy Tim Kaplan just happens to be a cute guy. After a lot of begging and pleading, Sara convinces him to play along. Tim slips into the role perfectly--so perfectly, in fact, that Josh is soon longing to pick up where he and Sara left off. At last Sara has Josh right where she wants him...but is he still the one she wants?