Books with author Kristen Smith

A fast-paced thrilling adventure, full of danger, romance, and deception--perfect for fans of Veronica Roth's Divergent series or Marie Lu's Legend.Too pretty.Too smart.Too perfect.In a crumbling, futuristic Las Vegas where the wealthy choose the characteristics of their children like ordering off a drive-thru menu, seventeen-year-old Sienna Preston doesn't fit in. As a normal girl surrounded by genetically modified teenagers, all of her imperfections are on display. But after the death of her father, everything she's ever known and loved changes in an instant.With little skills to help provide for her family, Sienna clings to the two things that come easily--lying and stealing. But not all thief-for-hire assignments go as planned. When a covert exchange of a stolen computer chip is intercepted, she becomes entangled with a corrupt government official who uses her thieving past as leverage, her mother as collateral, and the genetically modified poster boy she's falling for as bait.In order to rescue her mother, there may only be one option--joining forces with the Fringe, an extremist group, and their young leader who's too hot to be bad. Problem is, these revolutionaries aren't what they seem, and the secrets they're hiding could be more dangerous than Sienna is prepared for. In the end, she must be willing to risk everything to save the one thing that matters most.

Dottie and Dots See Animal Spots is an easy-to-read book for both children and adults. Dottie and Dots are two silly Braille cell characters who travel to the zoo. They begin to see Braille letters and words as they visit the animals. They will teach you how to read simple words in Braille through their adventure to the zoo. Look for more adventures to come.

Now a Netflix Original Series! The Breakfast Club meets Leah on the Offbeat in this story of female friendships that break all the rules. Tabitha, Elodie, and Moe: a beauty queen, a wallflower, and a burnout. Tabitha has just about everything she wants: money, friends, popularity, a hot boyfriend who worships her... and a yen for stealing. So does Elodie, who, despite her goodie-two-shoes attitude pretty much has "klepto" written across her forehead. Both of them are nothing compared to Moe, a bad girl with an even worse reputation. But the day that Tabitha and Elodie walk into Moe's Shoplifters Anonymous meeting, everything changes. When Tabitha challenges them to a steal-off, they forge a strange alliance linked by the thrill of stealing, and the reasons that spawn it. A more unlikely trio high school has rarely seen. Hollywood screenwriter Kirsten Smith tells this story from multiple perspectives with humor and warmth as three very different girls who are supposed to be learning the steps to recovery somehow end up on the road to friendship.

The first book in the series of The Adventures of Abby Diamond. Readers will meet Abby Diamond- a girl detective who happens to be blind along with her best friends. Andrea- The leader of the group. Tall, dark and is the brains of the groupNeils- A bouncy redhead who longs for adventure and mystery. Neils is a tomboy who knows how to handle herselfAlison- Beautiful and the long lost daughter of a famous movie star Jaxson- a lovable hillbilly who acts tougher than he is. Jaxson would not know good grammar if it bit himGlen- a.ka. "the parrot" as he says and does everything Jaxson does- Glen does not have a mind of his own

Noah and his sister, Anna, love to use their imagination when looking at their mother's collection of peg people and their village.Readers (ages 7-10) will enjoy the colorful pictures of peg people and wooden animals, scenes, and props. Noah and Anna are summoned by the peg people leaders, Peggy, Dolly and Shorty when they encounter wooden people and objects blinking to colors red, blue an yellow. The emergency? Pepper, the puppy is missing! Has someone taken Pepper? Where he is? Children will enjoy a great ending as well as learning writing strategies (alliteration) and rhyming words throughout the book.At the end of the story, there are fun and non-threatening writing activities encouraging kids to write creatively.

Abby Diamond goes to camp for kids who have a visual impairment where she and the others met up with a girl ghost. The ghost is spotted wearing a distinctive blue coat appearing and reappearing throughout the summer. Is she really a girl ghost or the imagination of Abby Diamond?Readers will enjoy learning quick kid facts about WWII during Abby's adventures.