Books with author Kennedy Cox

Help your child roast, broil, and sauté their way to kitchen confidence with 65+ easy recipes for kids ages 8 to 12 Practice makes perfect with every new skill, and learning how to cook is no exception. Kid Chef Every Day, an instructional kids cookbook, encourages budding chefs to hone their cooking skills every day with easy recipes and basic techniques to build confidence in the kitchen. From slicing to sautéing, this kids cookbook begins with hands-on recipe tutorials for young chefs to master grown-up cooking techniques. Putting skills to the test with more than 65 super yummy and easy recipes, this unique kids cookbook gives them the inspiration they need to take charge in the kitchen and proudly serve their creations to family and friends any day of the week. From Cinnamon Bun Baked Oatmeal to Ravioli Lasagna, this kids cookbook gets kids excited about cooking for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and dessert with: Cooking lessons―Teach essential kitchen techniques, vocabulary, and skills through hands-on recipe tutorials. 65+ Easy recipes―Explore a number of recipes in this kids cookbook that use 5 simple ingredients or fewer. Tips and tricks―Help your child take their cooking skills to the next level with suggestions for swapping ingredients, tips for preparing the kitchen, and more.Let your kid chef tell you what’s on the menu with Kid Chef Every Day, a creative kids cookbook packed with simple and tasty recipes to inspire their cooking curiosity.

Help your child roast, broil, and sauté their way to kitchen confidence with 65+ easy recipes for kids ages 8 to 12 Practice makes perfect with every new skill, and learning how to cook is no exception. Kid Chef Every Day, an instructional kids cookbook, encourages budding chefs to hone their cooking skills every day with easy recipes and basic techniques to build confidence in the kitchen. From slicing to sautéing, this kids cookbook begins with hands-on recipe tutorials for young chefs to master grown-up cooking techniques. Putting skills to the test with more than 65 super yummy and easy recipes, this unique kids cookbook gives them the inspiration they need to take charge in the kitchen and proudly serve their creations to family and friends any day of the week. From Cinnamon Bun Baked Oatmeal to Ravioli Lasagna, this kids cookbook gets kids excited about cooking for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and dessert with: Cooking lessons—Teach essential kitchen techniques, vocabulary, and skills through hands-on recipe tutorials. 65+ Easy recipes—Explore a number of recipes in this kids cookbook that use 5 simple ingredients or fewer. Tips and tricks—Help your child take their cooking skills to the next level with suggestions for swapping ingredients, tips for preparing the kitchen, and more.Let your kid chef tell you what’s on the menu with Kid Chef Every Day, a creative kids cookbook packed with simple and tasty recipes to inspire their cooking curiosity.

Of Silence & Sound is a raw and rare first person account of the story of Violet, a desperate and passionate teenage girl who is not like the others. In heartbreaking contrast to her inner struggle, she maintains her sanity with wit, as she falls further out of tune with her monotonous school landscape, her strained friendship, and her fading family. Her escape is her music, until the symphony of a voice comes crashing into her soul. But soon, even that edges her to a chasm of silence as she must harbor a secret which no one can possibly comprehend. Softly, almost inaudibly, this secret emerges as the one thing which could save her, if only she could allow it to be heard...---Violet woke up on her 18th birthday expecting it to be pretty much like any other day. It was not. First, her dad was gone...again. Then her mom kept defending him--like it was okay for him to be "at work" this much. Thank goodness she had her little brother so there was at least one other sane family member. Of course school was boring, as usual, but then, as the worst birthday of her life wound down, something happened. She heard the voice of a boy.Soon, she came to know him as Noah. They could hear each other's thoughts, even though they were in different countries, separated by thousands of miles of land and waves. Despite the mystery and beauty of her relationship with Noah, the rest of her life continued to dive into chaos and silence.Violet knew she was either insane, or hopelessly in love with someone she could never meet. As her world broke into more and more pieces, something happened which would change everything. Violet was left with nothing but the passion and courage to try desperately to make her dream of a happy ending come true.

Of Silence & Sound is a raw and rare first person account of the story of Violet, a desperate and passionate teenage girl who is not like the others. In heartbreaking contrast to her inner struggle, she maintains her sanity with wit, as she falls further out of tune with her monotonous school landscape, her strained friendship, and her fading family. Her escape is her music, until the symphony of a voice comes crashing into her soul. But soon, even that edges her to a chasm of silence as she must harbor a secret which no one can possibly comprehend. Softly, almost inaudibly, this secret emerges as the one thing which could save her, if only she could allow it to be heard... --- Violet woke up on her 18th birthday expecting it to be pretty much like any other day. It was not. First, her dad was gone...again. Then her mom kept defending him--like it was okay for him to be "at work" this much. Thank goodness she had her little brother so there was at least one other sane family member. Of course school was boring, as usual, but then, as the worst birthday of her life wound down, something happened. She heard the voice of a boy. Soon, she came to know him as Noah. They could hear each other's thoughts, even though they were in different countries, separated by thousands of miles of land and waves. Despite the mystery and beauty of her relationship with Noah, the rest of her life continued to dive into chaos and silence. Violet knew she was either insane, or hopelessly in love with someone she could never meet. As her world broke into more and more pieces, something happened which would change everything. Violet was left with nothing but the passion and courage to try desperately to make her dream of a happy ending come true.

They met at ten, kissed at twelve, and were madly in love by eighteen.Caleb Deering is the captain of the swim team and the hottest senior in school. He comes from a loving home with a kind father and a caring, but strict mother who is battling breast cancer. Nico Caro is small and beautiful, and has a father who rules with an iron fist—literally.One morning Caleb forgets himself, and he pecks Nico on the lips at school. A teacher sees them and tattles to the headmaster. The accidental outing at school might be the least of their problems, because the ball set in motion by the school’s calls to their parents could get Nico killed. In the face of that very real danger, Caleb knows he has only one mission in life: to keep Nico safe.

Elpida: Book OneHigh school senior Michael Sattler leads a charmed life. He’s a star athlete, has great friends, and parents who love him just the way he is. What’s missing from his life is a boyfriend. That’s a problem because he’s out only to his parents and best friend. When Michael accidentally bumps into Christy Castle at school, his life changes in ways he never imagined. Christy is Michael’s dream guy: smart, pretty, and sexy. But nothing could have prepared Michael for what being Christy's boyfriend would entail. Christy needs to heal after years of abuse and knows he needs help to do it. After the death of his notorious father, he leaves his native Greece and settles in upstate New York. Alone, afraid, and left without a voice, Christy hides the myriad scars of his abuse. He desperately wants to be loved and when he meets Michael, he dares to hope that day has arrived. When one of Michael’s teammates turns enemy, and an abuser from Christy’s past seeks to return him to a life of slavery, only Michael and Christy's combined strength and unwavering determination can save them from the violence that threatens to destroy their future together.

Follow the burgeoning love of two teens during the worst year of their lives. Irish-born Declan David de Quirke II is the son of two ambassadors, one Irish and one American. He is ‘out’ to his parents but to no one else. French-born Jean Isidore de Sauveterre is also the son of two ambassadors, one Catalan and one Parisian. His four half brothers have been told to cure him of his homosexuality. Both teens have lost a parent in a London car bombing.Declan and Isidore meet at the beginning of their senior year at a private academy in the United States. Declan is immediately smitten with Isidore and becomes his knight in shining armor. Isidore wants to keep what is left of his sanity and needs Declan’s love to do it. One is beaten, one is drugged, one is nearly raped, one has been raped. They are harassed by professors and police, and have fights at school, but none of it compares to running for their lives. When the headmaster’s popular son attempts suicide and someone tries to assassinate Declan’s mother, they are thrown headlong into chaos, betrayal, conspiracy, allegations of sexual coercion, even murder. And one of them carries a secret that may get them killed.

Elpida: Book ThreeMichael and Christy attended prom, graduated high school, and Michael leads the USATF tryouts. With Oxford University on the horizon, his future looks bright, and he believes life has returned to normal after Christy’s rescue. He couldn’t be more wrong.Christy has been free from a life of slavery for more than a year and has made remarkable progress due in no small part to the love he found with Michael. But the recent prosecution of a past abuser has shattered the life he so painstakingly built out of nothing but a mountain of horror. He now faces the daunting task of building a new life—yet again.Twelve-year-old Thimi has been missing since Christy left Greece and, unbeknownst to everyone, has hidden out in a vacant mansion in Glyfada. Learning of Christy’s survival is the only thing that brings him out of hiding. People, open spaces, even the most common of sounds frighten him beyond reason. A mere ghost of a boy, Thimi arrives in the US with no knowledge of the outside world—the only constant in his life a purple marble.Lost, shattered, and afraid, only hope gives them the strength and courage they need to begin anew.

Elpida: Book Three Michael and Christy attended prom, graduated high school, and Michael leads the USATF tryouts. With Oxford University on the horizon, his future looks bright, and he believes life has returned to normal after Christy’s rescue. He couldn’t be more wrong. Christy has been free from a life of slavery for more than a year and has made remarkable progress due in no small part to the love he found with Michael. But the recent prosecution of a past abuser has shattered the life he so painstakingly built out of nothing but a mountain of horror. He now faces the daunting task of building a new life―yet again. Twelve-year-old Thimi has been missing since Christy left Greece and, unbeknownst to everyone, has hidden out in a vacant mansion in Glyfada. Learning of Christy’s survival is the only thing that brings him out of hiding. People, open spaces, even the most common of sounds frighten him beyond reason. A mere ghost of a boy, Thimi arrives in the US with no knowledge of the outside world―the only constant in his life a purple marble. Lost, shattered, and afraid, only hope gives them the strength and courage they need to begin anew.