Books with author Joyce Crawford

IN FOREST LIGHTGrizzly bears and city boys don’t mix well! They are a combination guaranteed to create excitement, adventure, with a dose of terror and uncertainty.Fresh from the big city, thirteen year old Koeye McAllister is banished to a week in the Great Bear Rainforest along the rugged British Columbia coast. He is angry, he is nervous, and he is uncomfortable with an uncle he hardly knows and a region that is foreboding and unforgiving. His fears are intensified on the first day. Koeye experiences a terrifying encounter with a mother grizzly. The adventure continues through five amazing days of discovery. Abundant salmon, scruffy wolves, awkward moose, sassy beavers, dive bombing gulls and a glimpse of the mystical spirit bear of Canada’s west coast combine to create a tale of frustration tinged with awareness and terror counterbalanced by achievement. In Forest Light is an adventure story about the last of North America’s rainforest and one of the world’s most beautiful wildlife areas.

Food — Delicious — Food. Pizza, pasta and sparkling soda; with a side dish of ‘learning’. On this adventure to Italy, Maxx meets Prof. Tilbury’s extended family including three older cousins. These young women take great delight in teasing their 14-year-old visitor. To make matters worse, they insist that Maxwell learns about the history of ancient Rome, studies the art and architecture of the Italian Renaissance, and participates in the fashion scene of modern-day Italy. To his surprise, their merciless attention and demands actually excite his curiosity and interest. At the same time, Prof. Tilbury’s ‘enemy’, Chef Lorenzo, keeps Maxx belly-bursting full of mouth-watering Italian food. YUM!

Food — Delicious — Food. Pizza, pasta and sparkling soda; with a side dish of ‘learning’. On this adventure to Italy, Maxx meets Prof. Tilbury’s extended family including three older cousins. These young women take great delight in teasing their 14-year-old visitor. To make matters worse, they insist that Maxwell learns about the history of ancient Rome, studies the art and architecture of the Italian Renaissance, and participates in the fashion scene of modern-day Italy. To his surprise, their merciless attention and demands actually excite his curiosity and interest. At the same time, Prof. Tilbury’s ‘enemy’, Chef Lorenzo, keeps Maxx belly-bursting full of mouth-watering Italian food. YUM!

Arianna stretched out on the Florida beach sand. Her new friend, Bubba Two, traced letters on her back squeezing a bottle of sun tan oil. " Are you writing something?" she asked. "Yes, I am writing a very personal message: eye-el-oh-vee-ee-y-oh-u." She is stuck on him and together they go bait fishing for Spanish sardines, take exciting rides on jet skies, go scuba diving, explore old forts, and just have fun being together.

She wasn't sure what she should do. She knew she loved Uncle Joey and that he loved her in a very special way. Why would this be happening to her if she was so special? Kelly enjoyed being treated special by Uncle Joey until the day he asked her to keep a secret. Then he touched her in her swimming suit area. In her latest release, Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down, author Joyce Holton Crawford accurately portrays the feelings of confusion, sadness, and fear that Kelly feels when Uncle Joey touches her. She has promised to keep the secret, but feels completely empty inside. What will she do? Will she confide in someone she can trust or will she keep Uncle Joey's secret forever? Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down is an excellent opportunity for discussion between parents and children about the basics of child abuse and offers hope to those who have already been victimized. Discover what happens to Kelly and start a healing dialogue with the children in your life. Thumbs Up should be in every child's classroom. It covers a very sensitive issue in a way that allows a child to process a potentially harmful situation. The greater good is that the story may end abuse before it begins in one child's life. Diane Niezwaag, RN BSN Elementary School Nurse

Christopher's life was great--until the day Mike Carter moved to Harmony and began attending James Elementary. Mike quickly becomes the meanest kid in school, and his favorite target is Christopher. Mike calls Christopher mean names, plays embarrassing pranks on him, punches him, and even gets him in trouble at school and at home. On the worst day of bullying Christopher has experienced, Mike orders Christopher to meet him at the cemetery well for a big project he needs help with. But when the project doesn't go as planned, Christopher is forced to find the boy behind the bully who yells, 'Don't Call Me Michael.'