Books with author KarenM Wallace

This is one of a new series of books, "Read and Discover", designed to encourage children to learn about the world as they learn to read. They can cut down trees with their teeth, dig tunnels with their hands and steer under water with their tails. Find out why beavers are brilliant! It is suitable for non-fiction readers with boy and reluctant reader appeal. It includes text and illustrations, which support children learning to read. It features extra fact sections at the back of the books as well as author and illustrator biographies and an index.

Paperback. Pages: 160 Language: English Publisher: Simon & Schuster Childrens ... It all began the day my brother and I decided to poison our mother This is Nancys story Naturally inquisitive. shes always getting into trouble. along with her dreamer.. . pain-in-the-butt older brother Andrew. best friends Clare and Amy who live in the back of an old car. and weird sisters Sandra and Tracy. with their magazines full of boys. The children have known each other and their families for ever. but everything they thought they knew. is about to change. Filled with sparkling ideas and vivid dialogue. this is the story of a summer when old dreams are shattered and new dreams are born. For Nancy and her friends. things will never be the same ...

[Young Adult Fiction (Ages 12-17)][Read by Kim Mai Guest]A darkly magical novel about a mysterious family legacy, the bonds of sisterhood, and the strange and powerful ways we are shaped by the places we call home, from the critically acclaimed author of Shallow Graves.For the first eight years of her life, an unusual apple orchard in Vermont is Sorrow Lovegood's whole world. The land has been passed down through generations of brave, resilient women, and while their offbeat habits may be ridiculed by other townspeople -- especially their neighbors, the Abrams family -- Sorrow and her family take pride in its odd history.Then one winter night, an unthinkable tragedy changes everything. In the aftermath, Sorrow is sent to Miami to live with her father, away from the only home she's ever known.Now sixteen, Sorrow's memories of her life in Vermont are maddeningly hazy. She returns to the orchard for the summer, determined to learn more about her troubled childhood and the family she left eight years ago. But it soon becomes clear that some of her questions have difficult -- even dangerous -- answers. And there may be a price to pay for asking.