Books with author Elizabeth Frank

Quiet middle-schooler Darcy Wilson goes to bed feeling ill and awakens during the night to spectral images in her room. Are they merely a symptom of adolescence as her best friend suggests? These experiences coincide with sudden traffic through the town of Hillyard and unfamiliar cars parked at the diner where her mother works. Unusual newcomers begin to cross Darcy's path. Shy and solitary, she would rather withdraw to her room. But the summer before her freshman year of high school, events converge to bring her out of the shadows and into the light.

“The perfect life”. That’s what it looked like anyway. But no one knew what was really going on, no one saw past the blank stares and careless lies. But this isn’t just your ordinary ‘messed-up childhood’ story. It’s just…different. The true story of one girls journey through youth. Alone? Yes. Crazy? Sometimes. Ready to give up? Never.See the traumatic side of the truth, in the hilarious words of someone who doesn’t care what you think. Most of the time.

Miss Snowball's Friends is a small children's book. It's all about having fun with little animals. Each page has a different animal that brings something fun and includes one fact about that animal. This way children can learn about animals in a fun way. This book will have your children reading along and interacting with the book itself. This is a great way to help get your child into reading at a young age that will help them the rest of their lives. So join in on Miss Snowball's Friends and all their fun!

Plunged into the dark waters off Sumatra when her ferry sinks, 14-year-old Emily fights to stay alive amid the chaos and horror of passengers drowning in the night. Striking out toward land, Emily finds a young Islamic Indonesian boy, Isman, floating in a life jacket. Hungry, thirsty, and exhausted, Emily realizes that their survival depends on her ability to keep her mind clear and her emotions in check. Testing the limits of their physical strength, she and Isman face a shark scare, a whirlpool, and other dangers. For emotional strength, Emily increasingly looks to Isman, who draws courage from his quiet but firm Islamic faith. Overboard is based on the true story of a young American woman who survived the sinking of an overloaded Indonesian ferry in January 1996. Of the more than 400 passengers aboard, only 40 people survived.

The author and illustrator, of What if...ZOMBIES Were Nice, is releasing each book as a chapter ultimately building toward a grand finale. The books are written for the youth using adolescent grunge language and humor. Short politics and actual science experiments are the nucleus within the pages of each book.Chocolate and Oranges is the first chapter of What ifZOMBIES Were Nice. In this chapter you will find that The Great Panic Po of 2020 was something no one was ever prepared for. Zombies that didn't turn into a big black puddle of goop were taken to a secret location, by the military, where the trials of modification took place. Many years passed, and the secret decision for 'reintegration' occurred. The first zombie family released, into living society was placed in Texas, where a freaky friendship developed between a zombie boy and two bored eccentric children. As the trio's bond gets stronger, they make simple discoveries about themselves and learn more about The Great Panic Po of 2020. Stink, rot, and science string them together as they manage to find a formula that might keep their friend from falling apart!