Books with author Heather Zeller

The Hands on Science series provides students with background on key concepts in Science. Each title includes engaging hands on exercises that bring the concepts to life for kids. Real World Science: A Changing Earth, provide information on how landforms change, how mountains form, what causes volcanoes and earthquakes, and the movement of continents.

The autumn morning after sixteen-year-old Audrey Harper loses her virginity, she wakes to a loud, persistent knocking at her front door. Waiting for her are two firemen, there to let her know that the moment she's been dreading has arrived: the enormous wildfire sweeping through Orange County, California, is now dangerously close to her idyllic gated community of Coto de Caza, and it's time to evacuate. Over the course of the next twenty-four hours, as Audrey wrestles with the possibility of losing her family home, she also recalls her early, easy summer days with Brooks, the charming, passionate, but troubled volunteer firefighter who enchants Audrey--and who is just as enthralled by her. But as secrets from Brooks's dark past come to light, Audrey can't help but wonder if there's danger in the pull she feels--both toward this boy, and toward the fire burning in the distance.

The autumn morning after sixteen-year-old Audrey Harper loses her virginity, she wakes to a loud, persistent knocking at her front door. Waiting for her are two firemen, there to let her know that the moment she's been dreading has arrived: the enormous wildfire sweeping through Orange County, California, is now dangerously close to her idyllic gated community of Coto de Caza, and it's time to evacuate. Over the course of the next twenty-four hours, as Audrey wrestles with the possibility of losing her family home, she also recalls her early, easy summer days with Brooks, the charming, passionate, but troubled volunteer firefighter who enchants Audrey--and who is just as enthralled by her. But as secrets from Brooks's dark past come to light, Audrey can't help but wonder if there's danger in the pull she feels--both toward this boy, and toward the fire burning in the distance.

This is the first book in the Sixth Grade Spies series. Paola and Phoebe are eleven-year-old cousins and natives of the Upper East Side. They are spirited girls who love adventure, frappucinos, Sephora and boys, in that order. They are also secret detectives who work for the Commissioner of the New York Police Department. Paola and Phoebe already have a string of solved crimes to their credit when the Lip Gloss Murder goes down. A young woman drops dead at the Urban Decay counter at Sephora on 86th street---the very Sephora that is the girls' spiritual home. The murder weapon is a poisoned vial of lip gloss. This time, it's personal. As Paola and Phoebe race to solve the murder, they encounter a devastatingly handsome 14-year old computer hacker, ruthless Russian assassins and the Olsen twins. In one night alone, they crash the hottest nightclub in town, break into a loft in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, learn salsa dancing against their will and solve a mystery that has stumped NYPD's finest. Join Paola and Phoebe on this fast-paced adventure through New York City!

Lily moves to a new city with her father. She meets a girl from her new school named Abby. The two girls were like sisters, had so much in common and the same plans for the future. Abby gets Lily a job with her at a local record store. One day at work Lily got a vision, but wasn't sure what to think about it. Not knowing anything about her mother who died when she was three may be the key to the odd things that are starting to happen to her. The girls saved their money for their summer trip to Italy. The day after graduation the girls get on a plane for Venice to start their biggest summer of their lives. They arrive in Venice, make their way to the villa, their home for the summer, and get everything unpacked. On the walk back to the car a dark stranger comes out of the shadows and grabs Abby and another man appears, but not soon enough, the dark stranger disappears with her. Lily is left with the other man who introduces himself as Ayden. He offers to take her home and help her find her friend. Ayden tells her that the world as she knows it is not as it seems and that it won't be as easy as she thinks it will be to get her friend out of the caves.