Books with author Jen Smith

Meet Katie Sutton. She may just look like your average thirteen-year-old girl but in reality, she's the world's leading expert in Grown Up behavior. And you're in luck because in your hands you hold a one-of-a-kind guide to training your parent and becoming highly skilled at: understanding their insane behavior, predicting their next moves, and operating them to your best advantage. So please keep this book out of the way of your grown up, we don't want them going into "grumpy mode" too soon.

Help your child review concepts learned in school with this comprehensive workbook! This comprehensive workbook helps your child review and reinforce concepts learned in school with minimal preparation and materials. Includes sections on: - Language arts - Math - Social Studies - Science - Critical thinking - And more! With over 600 pages of educational activities, this beneficial primer promises hours of learning fun for ages 5-7.

Fourteen-year-old Darius is a dreamer. Not the I-want-to-be-a-fireman-when-I-grow-up dreamer, but the I-have-visions-right-in-the-middle-of-class dreamer. The ridicule from his classmates brings him to his breaking point. However, cruel teasing is the least of Darius’ worries.The Dark Witch Kensa has plans that threaten the peace of Alden. A plot including the capture of the Forest Orb, one of the Orbs of Power which were hidden from mankind –and for good reason. The sole possessor of the Orb has complete control over all creatures. With the power, Kensa plans on retrieving the remaining six Orbs to rule the world.However, the only one who can uncover the Orbs location is a seer. Kensa learns she can become one by kidnapping and draining a seer’s power. But after seven seers, she comes up short. When Kensa senses Darius, she marvels at the immense power he holds and won’t stop until she has him. By draining Darius, she will have enough power to recover the Orbs.Darius must not only find a way to control his new power, but also escape the Dark witch and her minions or she will destroy him and take over all of Alden.

This collection contains some of the most exciting, suspensful and fantastic chapters of the BONE saga! From the nighttime journey of Fone Bone, Thorn and Gran'ma Ben and their terrifying encounter with Kingdok, the hideous leader of the rat creatures, to the ridiculous manipulation of the villagers and Phoney Bone's sunrise ceremony to sacrifice the Great Red Dragon!

In their most popular adventure since "The Great Cow Race", Fone Bone and Smiley strike out into the wilderness to return a lost rat creature cub to the mountains. They meet new allies - a scrappy young band of animal orphans (their parents were eaten by the stupid rat creatures) and a mysterious new foe: the formidable Rock Jaw, a giant mountain lion who fancies himself the master of the eastern border. Together they uncover the riddles of nature and before it is over, two great titans of the realm meet in an earth-shattering clash that will determine the fate of the land.

Early childhood development shows that children use their imagination to explore the world around them and to discover potentials they have inside themselves. These How To Draw Book series will give your child the tools they need to draw their favorite things with confidence from start to finish. Step by step guide to learning the fundamentals of drawing detailed images that will help your child develop confidence in their artistic abilities and expand their imaginations to limitless possibilities.

As war spreads through the Valley and the rat creatures mount a vicious offense, Gran'ma, Lucius, Phoney Bone and the villagers join the Veni Yan warriors and set up base camp at Old Man's Cave to make a final stand against the Rat Creature army. Will Fone Bone be able to hold the alliance together? Will the rat creatures finally take over the valley and unleash the power of the Lord of the Locusts? Find out and discover much much more in this pivotal book.

John Harkness loves working and living on the Moon. But one day, that all changed with the arrival of a rare meteor storm that hits not only Armstrong City where he is currently assigned, but almost wipes out nearby Mining Shaft Six. With an automatic SOS coming from the devastated Shaft Six, Director of Operations Frederick Landry is forced by Military Command to abide by the Maritime and Space Code concerning SOS signals and send someone to check out the situation, though he insists he can't spare anybody because of damage and injuries at the City. With little evidence to indicate that anyone is left alive at Mining Shaft Six, John is assigned to check it out and begins a journey that will reveal a potential global crisis and change his life forever.