Books with author Joanne Johnson

With Charm Chains, create charms out of delicate wire, sparkly beads, and pretty plastic cutouts. Learn to make a butterfly, a leaf, a flower even a tiny peace symbol. Then use the included crochet hook to fashion a fine wire chain. Attach the charms to the chain, and a little magic takes place. Of course, the book is packed with our always-clear instructions and illustrations and comes with everything you need: an array of brilliant beads, colorful plastic cutouts, two colors of wire, and earring clasps.Comes With: wire, crochet hook, beads, plastic charms• Create wonderful things • Be good • Have fun

Just because everyone else thinks you should be over it, doesn’t mean you are.Last year, Sarah’s best friend Jamie died in a freak accident. Back then, everyone was sad; now they’re ready for Sarah to get over it and move on. But Sarah’s not ready to move on. She can’t stop reliving what happened, struggling with guilt, questioning the meaning of life, and missing her best friend. Life just seems random: no pattern, no meaning, no rules―and no reason to bother.In a last-ditch effort to pull it together, Sarah befriends Jamie’s twin brother Emmett, who may be the only other person who understands what she’s lost. And when she gets a job working for the local eccentric who owns a Christmas tree farm, she finally begins to understand the threads that connect us all, the benefit of giving people a chance, and the power of love.Critically-acclaimed author J.J. Johnson gives readers a powerful look at the later stages of grief when the rest of the world has seemingly moved on.

Brilliant Bead Rings is a completely new and updated version of Bead Rings (800,000 copies sold). Simply string shimmering beads on flexible wire to form totally durable, totally adorable, totally fashionable little rings. The book comes with seven sparkly ring designs, a dazzling palette of both seed and specialty beads and 50 pages of super clear, only-from-Klutz instructions.Comes With: over a thousand beads, wire• Create wonderful things • Be good • Have fun

A complete home spa experience in a book. The Natural Beauty Book features more than 60 simple recipes, for everything from bath salts and facial masks to tub infusions and hair rinses, all made using easy-to-find ingredients from your kitchen cupboard. Attached to the book is a personal spa kit, including a facial loofah, a nail brush, a pumice stone, vials of fragrant essential oils, and more. The book clearly explains exactly how to use everything you get.Comes With: terry head band, tangerine and lavender essential oil, facial loofah, nail brush, nail file, nail buffer, bath infusion bag, pumice stone• Create wonderful things • Be good • Have fun

What happens when a girl, homeschooled by her counterculture mother, decides to spend her senior year in public school? First friendship, first love―and first encounters with the complexities of authority and responsibility.Evie is different. Not just her upbringing―though that’s certainly been unusual―but also her mindset. She’s smart, independent, confident, opinionated, and ready to take on a new challenge: The Institution of School.It doesn’t take this homeschooled kid long to discover that high school is a whole new world, and not in the way she expected. It’s also a social minefield, and Evie finds herself confronting new problems at every turn. Not one to sit idly by, Evie sets out to make changes. Big changes. The movement she starts takes off, but when her plan begins spiraling out of control, Evie is forced to come to terms with a world she is only just beginning to comprehend.J.J. Johnson’s powerful debut novel will enthrall readers as it challenges assumptions about friendship, rules, boundaries, and power.

In May of 1608, the Duke of Mantua will throw the most spectacular wedding extravaganza in history. But it will all be ruined unless twelve-year-old Franni can keep a very big secret. "Franni and the Duke," a middle-grade novel, sets a fictional mystery against a specific historical backdrop. It takes place during rehearsals for Arianna, an opera by the great composer Claudio Monteverdi. When Franni and her older sister Alli run away to Mantua, they both find work in Monteverdi's company. A messenger from the north announces that the next duke of the town of Bergamo is missing, and he may well be in Mantua. Alli notices that Luca, a singer she's in love with, fits the missing Duke's description. Although Franni thinks Luca is a pompous idiot, she promises for Alli's sake to keep Luca's secret safe and protect him from bounty hunters and Bergamo's rival family. She does this with the help of the company's set designer, a worldly wise and world-weary dwarf named Edgardo, who is not exactly what he seems.