Books with author Jennifer Johnson Garrity

Ash heads to Azalea Town to battle for the Hive Badge. But first he has to finish a top-secret mission for Professor Oak. The mysteries of the GS Ball are about to be revealed -- or are they?Along the way, Brock catches a new Pokémon and Team Rocket messes things up again. Then Ash finally faces off for his second Johto League badge. Will he squish Bugsy's swarm of Bug-type Pokémon? Or will he suffer the sting of defeat?

What do bald men in skirts, ancient geeks, pompous popes, and bickering bishops have in common? They all took part in shaping the calendar that hangs on your wall. Together with a host of famous and not-so-famous others, adjusted, fine-tuned, and tinkered around with what would eventually become the western world’s most popular tool for keeping track of time. When a crotchety, down-on-his-luck old man turns up as a temporary employee in Lindsie’s father’s bookshop, she and her friend Evan feel sorry for him. But after they follow him to his makeshift home, Mr. S. Kronos (aka Father Time) drags them on a wild ride through five thousand years of hilarious history, insisting they meet the calendar’s creators. Lindsie and Evan will never take the calendar for granted again.

“An exhilarating urban portrait of friendship that captures real life on a block in the Lower East Side of New York City” from acclaimed author, Jennifer Y. Johnson-Garcia (Amazon Best Sellers List).Yasmin is an exemplary teenager who obeys her elders and stays out of trouble. But when her aunt-turned-foster-mother places her on the steps of a building with marching orders to make money any way she can, things change. Between getting pulled into the area’s drug ring, and a defiant plan to save three dogs from an abusive owner, Yasmin lands herself in a world of trouble where survival might only be possible at the expense of loyalty.

During the Civil War, fourteen-year-old Jacob Knight returns from the cornfield one day to find bushwhackers―Confederate sympathizers in the Union state of Missouri―terrorizing his family.At the insistence of his mother, Jacob and his seven-year-old sister, Eliza, flee the house for safety. When the two young people dare to return home the following morning, their family is nowhere to be found, and their home is burnt to the ground. Not knowing what else to do, Jacob and Eliza take their one remaining horse and journey north to their aunt’s home in Iowa, hoping to find their missing family members there.Jennifer Johnson Garrity brings the American Civil War era to life in this story about family, trust, and courage during a time of great uncertainty.

- Front matter includes FAQs about the war's causes and a visual timeline of the events leading up to each battle. Also includes a visual spread that shows the strengths and capacities of the opposing forces at the start of the battle- Back matter that includes a visual timeline of the battle's aftermath and subsequent events in the war- Excerpts from primary source materials including letters, diaries, newspaper clippings, and military reports are woven into the narrative and also included in sidebars- Back matter includes a glossary, resources section, and index