Books with author Kim Taylor

Flying Start Science Flight A fascinating introduction to the science of flight — in nature and in human technology. Superb action photographs by author Kim Taylor, leading wildlife photographer. Simple experiments for young scientists to try. "Engrossing and exciting introductions to both physical science and the natural world" — Kirkus Reviews on the Flying Start Science series.

WINNER of the WILLA Literary Award for Best Young Adult Fiction "admirably evokes the dusty, gritty aura of Depression-era Colorado" - Publisher's Weekly "With subtlety and insight, Taylor introduces readers to complexities and truths about love and family" - American Library Association "Taylor nails small-town agrarian Dust Bowl life in the '30s." - School Library Journal On the Depression era Colorado plains, there's nothing but dust and empty farms. It's an unforgiving background to the violence in Cissy Funk's life. She's alone on a scrap of a farm with her mother and brother, and her mother hasn't recovered from the death of Cissy's baby sister. She's turned cold, and mean, and she's turned against Cissy, singling her out, leaving bruises and a breaking heart. When Cissy's Aunt Vera turns up, with her warm hugs and pretty clothes, it looks like there just might be hope on the horizon after all. Vera is determined to make sure Cissy is safe and loved, despite her sister in law, despite the hard times, despite her own fears. But these hard times are more than failed crops and no work. There's a trouble in Cissy's family that no one is willing to tell her about, and it's threatening to bring her fragile happiness crashing down. When there's nothing but dirt, dust, and the faintest glimpse of delight, Cissy has to find the strength to grab onto what she can. Her family might not be what she thought it was, but maybe it can be exactly what she needs.

Kenny Kookaburra is a devious, cunning bird and is hungry for a meal. He sets out to trick the unsuspecting Kylie Kookaburra into giving up her juicy worm by his deceit. Kennys devious plan fails spectacularly, and he realizes the last laugh is on himself. He laughs so hard at his folly that the sounds of the Australian bush are changed forever. Importantly, Kenny learns a life lesson he will never forget!

From award winning author Kim Taylor Blakemore...NEW YORK, 1883: Gamblers and thieves, immigrants and street urchins, Do-Gooders and charity houses, impossible goals and impossible odds. The Bowery is a place where you own nothing but your dreams. And dreams are the only things that come cheap for pickpocket Mollie Flynn and prostitute Annabelle Lee.Pleasure is fleeting - and often stolen. Nights at Lefty Malone's saloon, sneaking into the Thalia Theatre. Then it's back to their airless, windowless tenement room and the ongoing struggle to keep a roof over their heads and bread in their stomachs.The Brooklyn Bridge is nearing completion, and things are changing in New York City. The two women fantasize of starting a new life across the East River. Nothing but a flight of fancy, perhaps, until wealthy Do-Gooder Emmeline DuPre, who has opened the Cherry Street Settlement House, steps into their lives with her books, typewriters, and promises of a way to earn a respectable living. Despite Mollie and Annabelle's fascination with the woman and what she offers, is Emmeline helping or meddling?Is it really possible to be anything other than a Bowery Girl? Mollie and Annabelle will have to decide exactly who they are, and what sort of women they want to be.

TWELVE-YEAR-OLD AGGIE HAS NEVER MANNED A STEAM-BOAT ON HER OWN UNTIL SHE IS FORCED TO THE WHEEL. After Daddy disappears,Grandma threatens to separate Aggie and her two younger sisters.Aggie runs away to think up a plan.The sisters reunite aboard the IRENE,their sixty-foot steamboat,but are trapped with thugs intending to steal their boat.As Aggie pilots the IRENE from port to port, conjuring up schemes to regain the upper hand,the sisters search for Daddy.WINNER OF THE SAN DIEGO BOOK AWARD.Based on real people and facts.

For readers of Jon Krakauer and Susan Orlean, The Coyote's Bicycle brings to life a never-before-told phenomenon at our southern border, and the human drama of those who would cross.It wasn’t surprising when the first abandoned bicycles were found along the dirt roads and farmland just across the border from Tijuana, but before long they were arriving in droves. The bikes went from curiosity, to nuisance, to phenomenon. But until they caught the eye of journalist Kimball Taylor, only a small cadre of human smugglers?coyotes?and migrants could say how or why they’d gotten there.This is the story of 7,000 bikes that made an incredible journey and one young man from Oaxaca who arrived at the border with nothing, built a small empire, and then vanished. Taylor follows the trail of the border bikes through some of society’s most powerful institutions, and, with the help of an unlikely source, he reconstructs the rise of one of Tijuana’s most innovative coyotes. Touching on immigration and globalization, as well as the history of the US/Mexico border, The Coyote’s Bicycle is at once an immersive investigation of an outrageous occurrence and a true-crime, rags-to-riches story.

Kenny Kookaburra is a devious, cunning bird and is hungry for a meal. He sets out to trick the unsuspecting Kylie Kookaburra into giving up her juicy worm by his deceit. Kenny's devious plan fails spectacularly, and he realizes the last laugh is on himself. He laughs so hard at his folly that the sounds of the Australian bush are changed forever. Importantly, Kenny learns a life lesson he will never forget!