Books with author Janet Lynch-Watson

Monique is as beautiful and unobtainable as an Aztec goddess. Or is she? When Rafa sees Monique burst out of her boyfriend's truck during an explosive fight, he offers to drive her home. However, it is Rafa who is in for the ride of his life. Soon he is basking in Monique's attentions, but at a cost. To keep her Rafa must quit the wrestling team, blow off family responsibilities, join her in her risky behavior, and worst of all lie. How can Rafa let everyone, including himself, down? But how can he say no to the mesmerizing Monique?In this absorbing youg adult novel set in California's San Joaquin Valley, a Mexican American teenager must choose between what he desperately wants and what he knows is best.

These small books, through warm, simple pictures and text, acquaint parents and children with patterns - and problems - that naturally develop as a part of early growth. The pictured text is planned for parent and child to read together, in the hope that the shared experience will stimulate easy, open discussion of emotional situations. Notes to parents provide a framework of mental health principles that will assist parents in viewing the normal, if occasionally turbulent, emotional development of their children with comfortable understanding.

This special paperback bind-up includes the first two books of the series, The Taming of the Dudebro and A Midsummer Night's Dudebro! In The Taming of the Dudebro, Patricia's dream is coming true: she is directing her own play, a one-act written by her best friend, Grizz, for the school's annual Drama Festival. Everything seems to be perfect until her teacher assigns Kurt Minola, the biggest jerk in the school, to work on her play. Kurt is lazy, selfish and irresponsible. The only good thing about him is his attractive twin brother, Ben-but even he can't seem to change Kurt's attitude. Kurt's presence turns Patricia's dream into a nightmare... until Patricia and Grizz decide to take matters into their own hands, and subject this insufferable surfer-dude to some taming. Then, in A Midsummer Night's Dudebro, with the theater festival behind her and graduation around the corner, Grizz Sheridan figured she was done with Kurt Minola. She wants to focus on spending time with her friends and enjoying her last summer before she goes off to college. No such luck now that Kurt's crushing on her best friend (and his twin brother's girlfriend), Patricia. It seems like he's glued to her side no matter where she goes-class, parties, even Prom. Grizz thinks her luck is changing when she begins working at Merry Mule Coffee Roasters and meets super hottie, Dimitri. That is, until a certain surfer boy starts working there, too-and suddenly seems to have turned his romantic interests elsewhere... Will Grizz survive the summer?