Books with author Laura Miller

Nutsy the Squirrel needs help collecting nuts for the winter. Mama Bird can't find Baby Bird. Brown Cow's tail is stuck in the fence, and Scratch the Dog is lost! Who can help? And how will each repay the other?Follow these woodland and barnyard animals as they embark on an energetic and captivating journey of paying it forward through simple, everyday acts of kindness. And see how one, small deed can set off a chain of generosity.

You will find fruits, vegetables, and fractions at a farmer’s market. This book teaches students about fraction basics including equivalent fractions, improper fractions, changing fractions to decimals, adding fractions, and subtracting fractions. The colorful pictures and practical examples help students improve their math skills and use fractions when they go shopping at a farmer’s market. This book encourages eating local and healthy food while learning math. This book is useful for students in 4th to 8th grade.

You have probably heard about bacteria when people talk about disease or sickness or when you are told to wash your hands. There is more to know about bacteria. This book gives information about what bacteria look like, where they are found, what illnesses they cause, what medicine is used to stop them, and how they can be helpful. The colorful pictures give an up close view so you can know bacteria better. This book is suited for 2nd to 5th grade.

From the author of Parallel comes a high-stakes thriller set in the near-future where everyone's lives are seamlessly orchestrated by their personal electronic devices.Fast-forward to a time when Apple and Google have been replaced by Gnosis, a monolith corporation that has developed the most life-changing technology to ever hit the market: Lux, an app that flawlessly optimizes decision-making for the best personal results. Just like everyone else, sixteen-year-old Rory Vaughn knows the key to a happy, healthy life is following what Lux recommends. When she's accepted to the elite boarding school Theden Academy, her future happiness seems all the more assured. But once on campus, something feels wrong beneath the polished surface of her prestigious dream school. Then she meets North, a handsome townie who doesn't use Lux, and begins to fall for him and his outsider way of life. Soon, Rory is going against Lux's recommendations, listening instead to the inner voice that everyone has been taught to ignore--a choice that leads her to uncover a truth neither she nor the world ever saw coming.

When Nico and Miranda become next door neighbors, they seem to have nothing in common. Yet when they’re together, they begin to sense mysterious signals from the sky – signals that seem to be summoning them to do something. While fending off the neighborhood bully and rescuing a kitten from a lightning strike, they feel these signals become stronger and stronger. Then a strange, graceful aircraft lands in front of their lemonade stand to invite them to the Deep Accelerated Science Club, a summer program for middle school students to pursue scientific projects. There they team up with a dreamy artist, a scared mathematician, a troubled genius, a wealthy valedictorian, an affable chemist and their rescued cat to solve the mystery. They decode the signals, find a way to communicate with a star, and make an unexpected detour to receive a puzzling message from a black hole. As the star is dying, they set in motion a brilliant plan to save it – until one of them discovers a fatal flaw and is faced with an agonizing choice. “The Path of the Orphaned Star” is a story of discovery – of inner strengths, of friendship, of the choices people make, and of our place in the wider universe.

A romantic, mind-bending novel about parallel worlds, soul mates, destiny, and the big-time consequences of even our smallest choices, perfect for fans of The Future of Us and Before I Fall.Abby Barnes had it all planned out—high school, college, career—but one decision made in her senior year of high school changed her carefully mapped-out future.When Abby wakes up the morning of her eighteenth birthday, it's as though her past has been rewritten. Abby discovers that a cosmic collision of parallel universes has erased her old reality. Now Abby is falling in love with a boy from her Parallel's memories—a boy she's never even met. She's living the life she always wanted, but what if living her Parallel's life means she loses her soul mate?