Books with author Elizabeth L. Banks

HOW MUCH IS A LIFE WORTH? WHEN THE WORLD DEMANDS AN ANSWER WE ALL SCRAMBLE TO FIND ONE.My name is Midnight Thunder. The town crazy person; the Demon Eyes girl. The girl whose existence rests on a curse that saves her from death yet sets her on a path to an inevitable end.I live in a world full of magic: spells, curses, enchantments, and everything in between. It would be a whimsical place, but, like anything, it's imperfect. Little by little, my own country has begun to fall apart beneath its own mistakes. The queen’s gone a little bit more than mad, our military has collapsed, and of course, the only way to break the deadly curse at the root of it all is to sacrifice... me.

"Dreadful Drake...The Storm Cloud Who Learned An Amazing Truth!," is a charming young children's story about the effects of bullying and how to overcome it. Children befriend a storm cloud who perseveres through teasing and discovers the beauty of his own unique purpose. It includes great questions that can spark family discussions about bullying and the power of words.

Excerpt from Campaigns of Curiosity, 1894: Journalistic Adventures of an American Girl in LondonThe Brownlows forgave me for the deception I had practised upon them, and then went to America, to recuperate their fortunes, which, Mr. Brownlow said, had suffered considerably through the mistakes of the Cleveland Administration.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Out in the Park one day, children, I met a little boy not bigger than you are, who told me that he liked stories about a boy and a dog and the things they did together. He said that it must be a real boy and a real dog, and there must be other animals in the story, not great, big, fierce ones, but just neighborly ones-animals a boy might, perhaps, meet when he went for walks in the woods-and take pictures of and get to know. So this is the story of the way a real boy and a real dog spent their first summer in the real country; and the fun they had together.

Do you believe in fairies? Annabel is looking forward to an unexpected few days away with her Auntie Kate. Tired from the journey, she falls asleep on the train and drifts off into a magical fairyland. Her dream becomes a reality when she feels a jingle in her pocket and finds a pearl orb, a gift from the travel fairies, which will alert her to any danger. Her holiday is going well until a boat trip turns into an adventure she was not expecting. Alone on the boat, below deck, the pearl orb jingles in her pocket and she knows she has to hide from the two intruders who board the boat. They are up to no good, and realising their mistake take drastic measures, which could be disastrous. Will Annabel be brave enough to save the day, with the help of the fairies in the sea kingdom?

"A recipe for happiness: four women, one medieval Italian castle, plenty of wisteria, and solitude as needed. The women at the center of The Enchanted April are alike only in their dissatisfaction with their everyday lives. They find each other-and the castle of their dreams-through a classified ad in a London newspaper one rainy February afternoon. The ladies expect a pleasant holiday, but they don't anticipate that the month they spend in Portofino will reintroduce them to their true natures and reacquaint them with joy. Now, if the same transformation can be worked on their husbands and lovers, the enchantment will be complete."