Books with author Katherine Wagner

Grab your wetsuit and goggles-it's time for a deep-sea adventure with The Everything Kids' Sharks Book! Explore the world of these underwater giants through tons of puzzles, exciting shark facts, and do-it-yourself activities. You'll learn all about the skills sharks need to survive in dark ocean waters, why their body shape helps them move, how they hunt for food, and what it takes to fend off enemies! Using The Everything Kids' Sharks Book, you'll: Decode words to find answers to fun shark riddles Search the ocean floor to uncover a hidden treasure Wind your way through shark-infested mazes Rearrange puzzle pieces to make pictures of your favorite sharks Unscramble clues jumbled by sneaky sharks Packed with fun games, exciting projects, and cool experiments, The Everything Kids' Sharks Book will have you scouring the ocean for endless adventure!

For many residents, living on an Indian reservation means coping with isolation. It also means dealing with high unemployment rates, truancy, and alcoholism. But in recent years, tribal governments have made sweeping reforms to end the cycle of poverty. These measures are making the tribes more self-reliant and helping to preserve native cultures. What are the changes and how do they affect the daily life of community residents?

The Jokiest Joking Joke Book Ever Written . . . No Joke! is the biggest, funniest, laugh-out-loudest joke book on the planet! Crack open this book to have everyone you know in stitches. Be ready for anything with jokes, puns, and riddles from a range of categories: celebrities, gadgets, video games, the classroom, zombies, and a bunch more! Complete with tons of awesome illustrations!- 2,001 unbeatable modern jokes- 400 showstopping illustrations- Have your friends rolling on the ground in no time!- Knock-knock jokes, puns, riddles, one-liners, and more!The hilarious one-liners, wisecracks, and gags will keep the shenanigans going for you, your friends, and anyone with a funny bone. With more than 2,000 kid-friendly side-splitters--from knock-knock jokes, to riddles and puns, to some of the silliest gut-busters ever--this book is more than a gigantic collection of wisecracks, it's a must-have for any jokester!

Written by a psychotherapist for her children. The Gifts of Autism is a tool to help facilitate conversations about the possible strengths of those on the autistic spectrum and is a vital resource for helping to build self esteem and self awareness in children on the autistic spectrum. Written to help children (aged 4-12) think about and connect with their experiences, this book The book includes questions and worksheets that can be explored with the child to help support self awareness.

The Jokiest Joking Joke Book Ever Written . . . No Joke! is the biggest, funniest, laugh-out-loudest joke book on the planet! Crack open this book to have everyone you know in stitches. Be ready for anything with jokes, puns, and riddles from a range of categories: celebrities, gadgets, video games, the classroom, zombies, and a bunch more! Complete with tons of awesome illustrations!- 2,001 unbeatable modern jokes- 400 showstopping illustrations- Have your friends rolling on the ground in no time!- Knock-knock jokes, puns, riddles, one-liners, and more!The hilarious one-liners, wisecracks, and gags will keep the shenanigans going for you, your friends, and anyone with a funny bone. With more than 2,000 kid-friendly side-splitters--from knock-knock jokes, to riddles and puns, to some of the silliest gut-busters ever--this book is more than a gigantic collection of wisecracks, it's a must-have for any jokester!

Parent and teachers want children to grow up to be happy and self sufficient, but when we have children with special needs, sometimes it seems like the work becomes so much about putting in scaffolding that we forget to celibate the strengths that are already there. Of course it's important to understand our needs and challenges, but if what we do well needs to be acknowledged first and foremost in order for their to be any chance at success.

Stomp, crash, and thrash through hours of puzzles, games, and activities!The Everything Kids' Dinosaur Book combines exciting and educational facts about dinosaurs with super-cool puzzles and awesome activities that will keep kids roaring, stomping and leaping for more. Inside they'll find out about the different types of dinosaurs, where they came from, how they lived and a ton (or two) more!With The Everything Kids' Dinosaur Book, kids can:Learn about what paleontologists studyManeuver through swampy amphibian mazesCreate big dino fun with crafty art and cooking projectsHunt for hidden dinosaurs in the most unlikely placesDiscover modern-day fun facts about fossilsPart educational tool, part activity book, The Everything Kids Dinosaur Book is guaranteed to keep kids entertained--and learning--for hours at a time.

If you stumbled on a true-blue witch, are you sure you could spot her? What if she came in the form of a sweet old lady sporting sweats? So begins this witchy, wondrous debut novel certain to warm your soul and give it shivers at the same time. With a cauldron of quirky witches, wayward ghosts, and cute pets, this tale of two covens offers delightful new ways to separate the good witch from the bad.When Amy and her one-eyed, one-eared cat Scruff escape her abusive great aunt, their getaway car is sent hurtling through a tunnel by a wave of water, and her simple plan goes wrong in ways Amy could never have conjured. What follows is a series of curious circumstances, particularly the strange ways of the elderly Milly and her sweatsuit-clad friends. Together, they form the OLDGALS, Old Ladies Doing Good And Loving Sweats. When a trio of evil witches confront them, a fierce battle begins. Can Amy triumph over evil- and perhaps even find superhuman romance? For Amy and her friends, it's an action-packed, magical ride that's as bumbpy as a witch's broom, and always brimming over with spine-tingling surprises.

In this spellbinding new Christian fantasy, author and illustrator Katherine L. Walker brings two alien worlds to life.The worlds of Magia and Dorcha are polar opposites. Magia is home to a menagerie of magical creatures, including the powerful Alicorns. Dorcha, on the other hand, is a monster-filled realm ruled by a tyrant. In this, the second book in the Otherworlds series, the three Gallagher siblings find themselves in a race against time to stop the Dorchan king from invading other worlds.As Mandy searches for her lost sister on a prison island full of chimeras and other monstrosities, her brother, Sam, dodges the attacks of the Fenris wolves and the attentions of the Dorchan rulers. The royal family is planning something terrible, and the Gallagher siblings hold the key to either stopping it—or unwittingly helping the Dorchans bring an endless night to every world.

Sara is a girl with a boring life, a dysfunctional family, and no hot chocolate waiting for her after school. Her life is gray and dull, until she ventures down to her inventor father's basement workroom and discovers a mysterious metal box that can do something amazing!After being transported to colonial America, Sara finds that life as she knew it before was paradise compared with trying to blend into a strict and pious community without all the modern day conveniences that she had taken for granted. Along with a kind old woman and a happy dog, she soon realizes how hard it is to fit in, and how dangerous the consequences of being found out can be. Can Sara survive being accused of witchcraft?