Books with author English

The Priceless Pact is the emotional story of a young girl who is tormented by bullies. While Michelle, doesn't own the most fashionable clothes or quite understand how to tame her curly hair, her outlook changes when a new student, Elyse, enters her class. Elyse, with her unique style of dress and unmistakable self-confidence, offers a nonviolent approach to handling the bullies. By making a pact with Elyse, to think more highly of herself, Michelle gains confidence and a new friend.

A distinctive new voice in children's fictionFrancie lives with her mother and younger brother, Prez, in rural Alabama, where all three work and wait. Francie's father is trying to get settled in Chicago so he can move his family up North.Unfortunately, he's made promises he hasn't kept, and Francie painfully learns that her dreams of starting junior high school in an integrated urban classroom will go unfulfilled. Amid the day-to-day grind of working odd jobs for wealthy white folks on the other side of town, Francie becomes involved in helping a framed young black man to escape arrest -- a brave gesture, but one that puts the entire black community in danger. In this vivid portrait of a girl in the pre--Civil Rights era South, first-time novelist Karen English completes Francie's world using lively vernacular and a wide array of flesh-and-blood characters. Francie is a 2000 Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book.

The journey of the seeker, the path of the soul. This original story was inspired by a lifelong dream of learning to fly, all the challenges one meets along the way of fulfilling ones dreams, and realizing our life's purpose. It explores overcoming all the ways we can get lost and found along the way. It is essentially a timeless allegory using the process of learning to flyas a metaphor for the evolution of our spirit... 222 page graphic novel for all ages, with 177 original black and white line drawings (all created using just bare finger on a tablet).

The Priceless Pact is the emotional story of a young girl who is tormented by bullies. While Michelle, doesnt own the most fashionable clothes or quite understand how to tame her curly hair, her outlook changes when a new student, Elyse, enters her class. Elyse, with her unique style of dress and unmistakable self-confidence, offers a nonviolent approach to handling the bullies. By making a pact with Elyse, to think more highly of herself, Michelle gains confidence and a new friend.

Young EbenezerA New Christmas CarolThis story is a seasonal treat, a modern, lyrical re-telling of the Charles Dickens classic - ‘A Christmas Carol.’The book is specially designed for families to share during the Holiday Season, or for young competent readers to try for themselves. This book is a beautiful gift to treasure, with full colour images on every page.Eb is a spoilt child who really is not one for caring, and he certainly hates sharing. He is watched over by a very special guardian – the family’s ancient longcase clock, who is bestowed with magic. His name is Grandfather Time.On Christmas Eve Grandfather Time decides he must teach the boy a lesson. So he calls upon his friends; the Ghosts of Past, Present and Future and with lessons to learn he brings forth the first tutor – a little golden-red King Charles spaniel, called Miss Ruby Heart.Will this unlikely pair be able to teach the boy the error of his ways? Or will he be doomed to be a scruffy, lonely teenager stuck forever in his own little world?

(English language edition) Galia is a young girl from Port-au-Prince, Haiti, who likes to ride her bike, dance, and spend time with her father, Gérald, who has muscular dystrophy and has been in a wheelchair since he was a young boy. Despite his disability, Gérald received a master’s degree from Harvard University, served as President Michel Martelly’s Secretary of State with the disability portfolio, and enjoys many of the same activities with his daughter as other dads. During his five years in public office, Secretary Gérald Oriol Jr. recognized his country’s critical shortage of children’s literature, particularly related to disability, and encouraged his friend and adviser James English to create a children’s book for Haiti, which has an estimated one million persons with disabilities, a number that increased significantly following the 2010 earthquake.Galia’s Dad Is in a Wheelchair aims to counter negative stereotypes and stigmas surrounding disability and is believed to be the only children’s book on the subject in Haiti available in Creole, French, and English. The book’s positive messages, which promote disability awareness and close parent-child relations, are universal and extend to general readers beyond the small Caribbean island nation. Teddy Keser Mombrun, a political cartoonist for Haiti’s largest newspaper, Le Nouvelliste, used Haiti’s unique color palette and landscapes to create illustrations for the book.

The True Miracle of Christmas is a book that beautifully ties together popular Christmas stories and simply explains them from the Christian Worldview of Love, Generosity, and Grace of Jesus. The poem encompasses Christmas themes from the perspective that it is a day that many families make traditions and come together, but most of all we should remember that Christmas is all about the Love of Jesus who came for us all.

"The Twelve Days of Christmas" is an English Christmas carol that enumerates a series of increasingly grand gifts given on each of the twelve days of Christmas. Although first published in England in 1780, textual evidence may indicate the song is French in origin.The Twelve Days of Christmas are the festive days beginning Christmas Day (25 December). This period is also known as Christmastide and Twelve-tide. This amazingly illustrated book includes twelve gorgeously illustrated pages.The illustrations were designed specifically for little children and family reading. Your kids will love the Book!