Books with author Jennifer Elder

The Rainy Day Activity Book is a children's activity cookbook. When the kids are finished, they will have play dough, jewelry, puzzles, games, face paint, and much, much more! The Rainy Day Activity Book is perfect for children of all ages: two- and three-year-olds will love blowing bubbles and rolling play dough; four- and five-year-olds will be very proud of their handmade barrettes, ornaments, and puzzles; and older children will have a great time with papier-mâché, soap sculpture, and piñatas. The Rainy Day Activity Book is very child-friendly. Everyone will love the charming watercolor drawings that appear throughout. Just in time for long, rainy days -- The Rainy Day Activity Book is the perfect solution!

A stirring story of sibling rivalry, conspiracy and redemption.Bob Beare—successful, urbane Teddy of the Year—has been tasked with organizing the One Hundredth Annual Teddy Bears’ Picnic, but his scruffy, accident-prone brother, Migraine, is planning to sabotage his efforts. Gerald, the one-eyed cat, has evil designs on them both. Find out more about them, the Story of the First Bear, Designated Cuddling Days and the Teddy Tube in this delightfully different book.Funny and touching in turn, teddy bear companions of all ages will enjoy discovering just why teddies are so terribly superstitious and notoriously bad at maths in A TALE OF TWO BEARES.

* Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction * New York Times Bestseller * A San Francisco Chronicle Top 10 Book of the Year * A New York Times Notable Book and a Washington Post Notable Fiction Book of 2017 * A Time magazine and USA Today Top 10 Novel of 2017 * Winner of the Booklist Top of the List for Fiction * Longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction * Named a Best Book of 2017 by NPR, The Guardian, Vogue, Esquire, Kirkus Reviews, Philadelphia Inquirer, BookPage, Bustle, Southern Living, and St. Louis Post-Dispatch "Immensely satisfying...an old-fashioned page-turner, tweaked by this witty and sophisticated writer...Egan is masterly at displaying mastery...she works a formidable kind of magic." --Dwight Garner, The New York Times The daring and magnificent novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad. Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to visit Dexter Styles, a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family. She is mesmerized by the sea beyond the house and by some charged mystery between the two men. Years later, her father has disappeared and the country is at war. Anna works at the Brooklyn Naval Yard, where women are allowed to hold jobs that once belonged to men, now soldiers abroad. She becomes the first female diver, the most dangerous and exclusive of occupations, repairing the ships that will help America win the war. One evening at a nightclub, she meets Dexter Styles again, and begins to understand the complexity of her father's life, the reasons he might have vanished. "A magnificent achievement, at once a suspenseful noir intrigue and a transporting work of lyrical beauty and emotional heft" (The Boston Globe), "Egan's first foray into historical fiction makes you forget you're reading historical fiction at all" (Elle). Manhattan Beach takes us into a world populated by gangsters, sailors, divers, bankers, and union men in a dazzling, propulsive exploration of a transformative moment in the lives and identities of women and men, of America and the world.

Fourteen-year-old Abbey Sinclair likes to spend her afternoons in the physics lab learning about momentum and gravitational pull. But her practical scientific mind is put to the test when her older brother, Simon, discovers a mysterious path of stones that allows them, along with Abbey’s twin, Caleb, to travel back and forth between their world and what appears to be...the future. Unfortunately, they’re not the only ones who know about the stones, and they soon realize their lives are in danger from a man known only as Mantis. Abbey, Caleb, and Simon must follow a twisting trail of clues that will lead them from their autistic neighbor, Mark, to a strange professor who claims to know the rules of the stones, and to multiple futures—some of whose inhabitants don’t want to stay put. It will take all of Abbey’s analytical skills to unravel the secrets of the stones, uncover the threads that tie the futures together, thwart Mantis’s plan, and, most importantly, keep her family alive—now and in the future. A Pair of Docks explores Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, the meaning of time, the potential for parallel universes, and the boundary between science and witchcraft. It is the first novel in the Derivatives of Displacement series.