Books with author Elizabeth Nix

Through vibrant photography, strong infographics, and closely-leveled text, learn all about paint horses. Saddle up, and get ready to learn about some of the world's favorite horse breeds. Explore the traits and features of each breed, their common uses, and the care they need through closely leveled text, engaging infographics, and vibrant photography. Are you ready to get Horse Crazy?

Through vibrant photography, strong infographics, and closely-leveled text, learn all about Thoroughbreds. Saddle up, and get ready to learn about some of the world's favorite horse breeds. Explore the traits and features of each breed, their common uses, and the care they need through closely leveled text, engaging infographics, and vibrant photography. Are you ready to get Horse Crazy?

Many students may use computer labs or tablets in school. But coding can also be found in science classrooms, the library, and even the lunch room! Early readers can educate themselves on the coding in their own school with this eye-opening title. Photo labels visually define glossary terms and other important words. Sequence infographics take the reader step-by-step through coding in action. Diagrams point out where examples of coding can be found in each topic. Presents STEM in a high-interest and relevant way. Second-person introduction phrases empower the reader to explore coding in theory and in practice.

Be very scared. If the Furies of Ancient Greece are coming for you, there is no escape. When they slip into our world through a crack in an old pot, Melanie must find out why they want to send her mad. Was it something her mother did? Because, to the Furies, sons and daughters are fair game. Can she find a way to defeat them, before they destroy her? And why does the strange boy called Simon think he can help her?

Where does an e-mail go when you hit send? Code zooms it through the millions of connections in the Internet! Learn how code connects and runs a massive worldwide network of computers in this fact-filled title. Photo labels visually define glossary terms and other important words. Sequence infographics take the reader step-by-step through coding in action. Diagrams point out where examples of coding can be found in each topic. Presents STEM in a high-interest and relevant way. Second-person introduction phrases empower the reader to explore coding in theory and in practice.

From typing your name to playing a song, everything you do on computers uses code. But how do computers understand what were telling them? This engaging title introduces young readers to programming languages, binary code, and the history of early programming. Photo labels visually define glossary terms and other important words. Sequence infographics take the reader step-by-step through coding in action. Diagrams point out where examples of coding can be found in each topic. Presents STEM in a high-interest and relevant way. Second-person introduction phrases empower the reader to explore coding in theory and in practice.

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.

Kura’s thirteen, and her aunt wants to marry her off to get rid of her. This is Antarctica, ten thousand years ago, when for a short time just the coastal strip is ice-free. All the evolutionary niches have been filled by birds; the main predator is a giant eagle and copper-feathered parrots are just as intelligent as man. Kura’s no coward, so she steals her uncle’s flightless riding-bird, the vicious and unpredictable Plume, and sets off to find her real parents. Her search becomes entangled with an attempt to thwart the plans of a tyrannical and unprincipled chieftain, The Varka, and puts both her and her friends in grave danger. Can they outwit The Varka, and save the copper-feathers from extinction? And who really is Kura’s father?If you liked THE DIVIDE, you should try this.

JANE IN WINTER More than anything, Jane Mabry wants to have an adventure and it all begins one dull Saturday morning when no one wants to play with her. First she meets a mysterious old lady near the graveyard who asks for her help. Then she meets a strange girl and her adventures do begin... JANE AND THE ESSEX SERPENT Things were much more exciting in the olden days, Jane Mabry thinks - but they were much more dangerous too. In this story Jane travels back into the past and sees history unfold and helps defeat the Essex Serpent the scourge of the neighborhood. These two tales combining history, family, magic and adventure are in the tradition of E.Nesbit, Enid Blyton and C.S.Lewis. They are set in England in the 1950's on a romantic and decaying old estate similar to the one where the author grew up. Elizabeth Wix's first novel, The Three Graces, was published by Soho Press in 1989, and she has written essays for the New York Times and Newsday. She now lives in New York.