Books with author Elizabeth Frank

Wonderful adventures of Sam's truck which drives on the most dangerous road in the USA. Will he be able to carry all the loads through hundreds of miles of icy road?Will he fulfill the promises given to his mother and manage to return home for the holidays? It's a perfect book for long winter evenings. Now for sure you will feel the magic of Christmas! Children will love it!

Audrey Kinkora only has three goals in life: become the best volleyball player on her team, attend the best parties on campus, and have the hottest guy as a boyfriend at Arial State University, and, so far, she's achieved all three.When she finds out she's one of the few half-Fae and half-Mer hybrids in her small, magical hometown, she's faced with the decision to take up responsibilities that she finds too difficult to deal with, and everything – including the scales! – that comes along with it. These duties includes saving the peoples whose blood runs through her veins while dealing with the allure of the college life calls her name, which is growing stronger every minute. But soon Audrey realizes that the longer and farther she hides, the worse the pangs that comes with responsibilities get – and the faster she gets thrown down the hole as she encounters the mystery of the blood of the Mer and Fae and all it entails.

Join the Warrior Kids as they travel back down memory lane to the time when each one became a Warrior Kid. Anna was the new kid in the neighborhood. When her parents began the Backyard Kids Club in their yard, it became the favorite spot to be on Sunday afternoons. But now there was a brand new subdivision full of children next to them. What can the Warrior Kids do to reach these new neighbor kids and how will they fend off the bird-like lost prevention power patrol? For other Warrior Kids adventures be sure to visit the website at www.warriorkidsclub.com!

[Read by Bernadette Dunne] Elizabeth Ford went through medical school unsure of where she belonged. It wasn't until she did her psychiatry rotation that she found her calling-to care for one of the most vulnerable populations of mentally ill people, the inmates of New York City's jails, including Rikers Island, who are so sick that they are sent to the Bellevue Hospital Prison Ward for care.These men were broken, without resources or support, and very ill. They could be violent, unpredictable, but they could also be funny and tender and needy. Mostly, they were human and they awakened in Ford a boundless empathy. Her patients made her a great doctor and a better person. While Ford was a psychiatrist at Bellevue she became a wife and a mother. In her book she shares her struggles to balance her personal and professional lives, to care for her children and her patients, and to maintain the empathy that is essential to her practice-all in the face of a complex institution, an exhausting workload, and the deeply emotionally taxing nature of her work. Ford brings humor, grace, and humanity to the lives of the patients in her care and in beautifully rendered prose illuminates the inner workings (and failings) of our mental health and criminal justice systems.

Fourteen-year-old Emily boards an over-crowded ferry in Sumatra. When the boat sinks, she’s trapped by hundreds of panicked people. She finds Isman, a terrified young Muslim boy, floating in a life vest. Together, with Emily’s physical strength and Isman’s quiet faith, they swim for their lives.“Fama conveys the elemental struggle and shows how Emily finds strength she didn’t know she had.”—Booklist“Each moment brings. . . new problems—cold, hunger, sharks, a whirlpool, fear—and actively holds readers’ interest. An author’s note describes the inspiration for this unique book—a real ferry accident off the coast of Sumatra in 1996 when only 40 of the 400 passengers survived.”—School Library JournalAn ALA Best Book for Young Adults

Join the Warrior Kids as they go on another great adventure! How Anna fears thunderstorms and tornado warnings! How do you have peace, even in the midst of a terrible storm? How about the storms of life? The devil's sneaky Power Patrols work overtime stirring up storms around Anna. WIll they finally take her out? Come help the Warrior Kids find the keys to unlock the great Kingdom Treasure of PEACE as they walk with Anna through the worst storm of her life.

Late for soccer--again? Lenny can never get anywhere on time! That's how he got the nickname, Late Lenny. The TIME Doctor gets called in just in time to save the day for Lenny and his soccer team. He brings a colorful prescription to handle the case of the "never on time" Lenny. Join Late Lenny as he learns to respect both others and himself by learning how to be on TIME. www.TheTimeDoctor.com

Fierce, seductive mermaid Syrenka falls in love with Ezra, a young naturalist. When she abandons her life underwater for a chance at happiness on land, she is unaware that this decision comes with horrific and deadly consequences. Almost one hundred forty years later, seventeen-year-old Hester meets a mysterious stranger named Ezra and feels overwhelmingly, inexplicably drawn to him. For generations, love has resulted in death for the women in her family. Is it an undiagnosed genetic defect . . . or a curse? With Ezra’s help, Hester investigates her family’s strange, sad history. The answers she seeks are waiting in the graveyard, the crypt, and at the bottom of the ocean - but powerful forces will do anything to keep her from uncovering her connection to Syrenka and to the tragedy of so long ago.