Books with author Laura Knight-keating

A choice-based, science fiction story that reads like a movie script and includes real NASA photos and facts! What happens when a kid is recruited for a daring outer space mission? Find out in this amusing and interactive tale. Kid Astronaut is perfect for a home or school library. Read-a-loud as a group or adventure on your own!Connecting themes for educators: Reader's Theater Script, Real and Make-believe, Using creativity in life interests, Scientific inventions, innovations, Transportation, Communication, Social Development: Individual and Group Responsibility, Problem Solving, Space exploration

A heartwarming story of a little tree finding his worth in the world and children finding the worth in him.Hug is a little tree wanting to share his life with the children he can see, but poor Hug the tree cannot move, he is stuck in one place!Share the journey of Hug the tree and how he discovers how helpful he can be, and in turn children discover how wonderful trees are in their lives.This is a journey of environmental discovery; and how trees are important to our well being.Little nature fans will delight in this journey.

Acclaimed writer Margo Rabb's Kissing in America is "a wonderful novel about friendship, love, travel, life, hope, poetry, intelligence, and the inner lives of girls," raves internationally bestselling author Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love). In the two years since her father died, sixteen-year-old Eva has found comfort in reading romance novels--118 of them, to be exact--to dull the pain of her loss that's still so present. Her romantic fantasies become a reality when she meets Will, who can relate to Eva's grief. Unfortunately, after Eva falls head-over-heels for him, he picks up and moves to California with barely any warning. Not wanting to lose the only person who has been able to pull her out of sadness--and, perhaps, her first shot at real love--Eva and her best friend, Annie, concoct a plan to travel to the west coast. As they road trip across America, Eva and Annie confront the complex truth about love. In this honest and emotional journey that National Book Award Finalist Sara Zarr calls "gorgeous, funny, and joyous," readers will experience the highs of infatuation and the lows of heartache as Eva contends with love in all of its forms. Since publication, this novel received 4 starred reviews and has been named: A Chicago Public Library Best Teen Book of 2015A New York Public Library Best Book for Teens 2015A Miami Herald Best Book of the YearA Spirit of Texas selectionA TAYSHAS High School Reading List SelectionAn Oprah Summer Reading List selectionA Junior Library Guild selectionAn Amazon Best Book of the MonthA Publisher's Lunch 2015 Buzz Book for Young Adults