Books with author Katherine Mariaca-Sullivan

Portals. Doorways. Gateways. All ways to get in or out of someplace, right? Nothing weird, spooky or otherworldly about them. Or, at least that’s what Tallis Challinor always thought. Tallis is a practical young woman, a writer, a lover of words and a natural storyteller. But she’s not sure what to do when real-life sucks her into a story far stranger than anything she’s ever imagined.Tallis discovers that portals are passageways between the human and spirit worlds. She finds out that bent-on-evil ghosts can escape from the spirit realm through those gateways whether they are supposed to or not. And when they do, Tallis finds herself the chosen human, picked by the portal in her basement in New Hampshire, to seek out and return the wayward spirits.All Tallis wants to do is recover from the loss of her parents and settle into her new home. She’d like a boyfriend, someone like the cute guy, Aiden, down the street. She’d like some girlfriends to talk to and maybe even go shopping with. And she’d like the ghosts, the portal, and the responsibility that has been thrust upon her to disappear. But when the ghosts threaten her new hometown, her friends, and the family she holds so dear, Tallis discovers the inner courage to meet the portal’s challenge and save those most precious to her. Along the way, Tallis learns that she is more than she’s ever imagined herself to be and that she deserves more than she’s ever dreamed possible.

Portals. Doorways. Gateways. All ways to get in or out of someplace, right? Nothing weird, spooky or otherworldly about them. Or, at least that’s what Tallis Challinor always thought. Tallis is a practical young woman, a writer, a lover of words and a natural storyteller. But she’s not sure what to do when real-life sucks her into a story far stranger than anything she’s ever imagined. Tallis discovers that portals are passageways between the human and spirit worlds. She finds out that bent-on-evil ghosts can escape from the spirit realm through those gateways whether they are supposed to or not. And when they do, Tallis finds herself the chosen human, picked by the portal in her basement in New Hampshire, to seek out and return the wayward spirits. All Tallis wants to do is recover from the loss of her parents and settle into her new home. She’d like a boyfriend, someone like the cute guy, Aiden, down the street. She’d like some girlfriends to talk to and maybe even go shopping with. And she’d like the ghosts, the portal, and the responsibility that has been thrust upon her to disappear. But when the ghosts threaten her new hometown, her friends, and the family she holds so dear, Tallis discovers the inner courage to meet the portal’s challenge and save those most precious to her. Along the way, Tallis learns that she is more than she’s ever imagined herself to be and that she deserves more than she’s ever dreamed possible.

A hungry frog looks around the pond and sees all the other creatures that live there as potential meals. What happens, though, when something else thinks he looks yummy? Pond Thing, the delightful new picture book by author-illustrator, Heather Maurice-Stirnweis, introduces kids to life on a pond and the creatures that live there. The first in a series of environment-themed picture books, Pond Thing follows Heather’s earlier books, “Ruby Jane - Is She REALLY a Pain?” and “In the Deep, Dark Woods: A Winter Counting Book.”

Pond Thing, the delightful new picture book by author-illustrator, Heather Maurice-Stirnweis, introduces kids to life on a pond and the creatures that live there. With a focus on ?-ing? adjectives, Pond Thing teaches kids how to describe something by how it moves (?hopping?, ?skating?, ?swimming?) in and around a pond. Heather, author and illustrator of such books as ?Ruby Jane - Is She REALLY a Pain?? and ?In the Deep, Dark Woods: A Winter Counting Book?, is currently at work on a series of picture books that combine an introduction to environments and ecology with sentence parts and structure.