Books with author Lawrence L. Allen

The sand on a beach feels soft beneath your bare feet, but take a close-up look at the sand under a microscope and you'll soon see that each grain of sand is a tiny piece of solid rock. Inside this book, readers will find a clear, accessible, step-by-step explanation of how weathering and erosion create sand. They will also learn how rocky cliffs are eroded by the ocean to form sand as well as discover how rocks, thousands of miles from a beach, can be worn away into sand that is carried by rivers into the ocean and onto beaches. Filled with information perfectly suited to the abilities and interests of an early elementary audience, this colorful, fact-filled volume gives readers a chance not only to learn, but also to develop their powers of observation and critical thinking. From stunning photographs to high-interest text, this book makes exploring the topic of weathering and erosion a lively, engaging experience.

Why do rabbits and guinea pigs feed on their own droppings? How is munching on hyena dung helpful to an African leopard tortoise? And why might you spot scientists carrying buckets of fox poop and dirty diapers into the woods? To humans, eating poop sounds disgusting, but many members of the animal kingdom regularly chow down on poop! This new Science Slam!title will engross readers--and gross them out! Filled with information perfectly suited to the abilities and interests of an early elementary audience, this colorful, fact-filled book gives readers a chance not only to learn, but also to develop their powers of observation and critical thinking. With fascinating photographs and surprising, high-interest facts about a material that we don't usually read about, the book makes learning about excrement poop-sitively amazing!

Kate Smith has spent years controlling her gifts of telepathy and compulsion. It took even longer to be accepted by everyone in her small town due to some mishaps in her youth. Over time, she’d created different personalities that she considered her masks to deal with the world around her. It allowed her to fit in with multiple groups of students and develop friendships. But she allowed no one to see behind the wall she’d perfected not even her family. Kate’s sophomore year of high school isn’t shaping up to be much better than previous years until two new students arrive and challenge her current way of life. Adam and Alyssa have her same abilities, but instead of hiding, they have embraced and utilized their skills. They continue to question and pester until she finally gives in and meets their family. It opens her eyes to a whole new way of life. The three become inseparable and decide to use their gifts to help those in need. After helping the first few victims, they decide to take on bigger challenges. With that, comes more danger. A young girl has disappeared and Kate knows there is much more to the story. They enter a race against time to save the girl and themselves.

Every four hundred years, an all-powerful being is born. Known as the Mystic, this magical entity must maintain the balance of all realms and save the world in an ultimate battle.For those within the magical realms, the role of the Mystic is legendary. However, the Mystic has been born in the human realm. She’s not only unaware of her unique destiny, she’s missing. Time is running out. Even if she’s found, no human has ever stood against a demonic realm and lived.FBI agent, Kate Smith, has spent her entire life hiding from her psychic abilities. As much as she despises being different, she admits they’ve helped her solve some of the most brutal cases. But her latest assignment has her doubting herself. It’s like nothing she’s encountered before, and the gifts she’s grown to rely on aren’t working. Visions haunt her dreams, and questions about her destiny plague her. Worse yet, the answers she discovers are even more terrifying.For twenty-eight years, Xander Montgomery has searched for the only being who can save all realms. But it’s not easy finding someone unaware of who she is, and being stuck in the human realm isn’t helping his disposition. As a Guardian, he has one mission—protect the Mystic. When Kate and Xander finally meet, he’s convinced of one thing. If he can’t persuade the strong-willed stranger to follow him on a deadly quest, the world is doomed.

A young child joins his scientist parents as they observe the behavior a wolf pack over the course of one year. The narrator decides to keep a diary and records how the pack's alpha pair digs a den and then raises a litter of cubs. From watching the cubs emerge from the den for the first time, to seeing the cubs grow into adults and find their places in the hierarchy of the pack, the reader will follow the daily life of the close-knit wolf family. Colorful photos, diagrams, and clear, age-appropriate text will engage young readers as they explore the life cycle, natural habitat, physical characteristics, diet, and behavior of these intelligent and fascinating animals. The diary format models scientific observation and critical thinking--and encourages children to keep notebooks recording their own investigations into the natural world. A Wolf's Lifeis part of Bearport's Animal Diaries: Life Cycles series.

Splash! Three playful creatures slide down a muddy slope and fall into a pond. Twisting and turning in the water, the river otter family continues its game. It's not all play, though, and soon the animals begin to hunt for fish in the murky water of their swamp home. Filled with information perfectly suited to the abilities and interests of its primary-grade audience, this colorful, fact-filled book gives readers a chance not only to learn all about river otters and the swamp habitat in which they live, but also to develop their powers of observation and critical thinking. Built-in activities, such as investigating the ways an otter's body is adapted to a life in water and guessing why mother otters push their little pups into the water, give readers a chance to gain insights beyond the facts and figures.

Where were you in the roaring `80s? Sam Khost was nearing the end of a five-year `round-the-world pilgrimage to the university of life: immersed in the alcohol, lechery and camaraderie of the purgatory culture of misfits and runaways in Taipei’s Combat Zone.Ensconced in this grungy, smoke-grimed bar-street backwater, among the littering of this bizarre collection of castaways, Sam finally achieves his own personal nirvana while giving the most astounding and authentic musical performance of his life. His body seemed to fade away and his raw emotions became one and the same with his instrument, manifesting in music all his sadness and joy, his pain and lust, fear and triumph, and rhapsodizing the attainment of his complete emancipation. It was now time to go home.But fate intervenes to force one last stop on his journey: Hamburger Heaven. Trapped in its Sisyphean tangles, will he ever escape the menagerie of Taipei’s Hamburger Heaven?

While Kate prepares for her junior year of high school, a dark cloud seems to be threatening the town. She assumes it’s all in her head, but her continual visions show total chaos extending its ugly claws toward Rosewood. The more details she discovers, the clearer the truth becomes. Unless the coming storm can be stopped, no one will survive. With the help of Adam and Alyssa, Kate searches for the cause of the impending destruction, and they stumble across an old Cavanaugh prophecy. The storm is actually a dangerous curse created many years ago and placed upon the entire town. Only one person can defeat it. Kate. But she doesn’t know how. As the wind howls, and the day turns to night, no one is safe from Cavanaugh’s wrath. Kate must make the ultimate sacrifice to gain the town’s freedom or watch them all die.

This is a story of nature’s flowering beauty in the early spring, set amidst an unspoiled woodland near White River in Indiana where a young boy named Jack is visiting in the home of his grandparents. Their home is nearly surrounded by a deep woods that includes a long cliff like hilltop overlooking the river, an abandoned canal and towpath. The story embraces the innocent imagination of a curious boy who by chance becomes acquainted with a wise American toad called “Toadshade”….that talks.The real and imaginative worlds merge as the talking toad introduces Jack to the many spring wildflowers that make their appearance in the woods. The story is informational and can educate and delight the reader and for Jack, each day is an adventure.So as the writer and illustrator of Jack’s story, I invite you to turn the pages and follow along with Toadshade and Jack .

Bel and Heln take a shortcut and are arrested - and that's only the start of their problems.Chased into underground ruins by clay golems, they have to survive on their magic and their wits. The magic around them is older, and the symbol of the forest god is everywhere. Is it just a terrifying tale, or is the forest god real? And what else could be lurking, down in the dark?The Rising Stones is a story of family, friends, love, and deeply buried secrets.

What are asteroids and could one of these giant space rocks ever hit Earth? Who are the scientists who track asteroids around our solar system? And could asteroids one day be mined for metals and other valuable resources? In this new Science Slam! title, kids will discover the answers to all these questions and many more fascinating facts about asteroids. Each book is expertly crafted to meet early elementary and science curriculum standards, as well as introduce young space enthusiasts to the latest space technology. Innovative, grade-appropriate activities and experiments, critical-thinking questions, and fascinating fact boxes will give kids a chance to think like an astronaut.

Is it possible that other Earth-like planets exist outside of our solar system? How do telescopes find these exoplanets? And how can scientists tell if a distant exoplanet has signs of life? In this new Science Slam! title, kids will discover the answers to all these questions and many more fascinating facts about the search for another Earth. Each book is expertly crafted to meet early elementary and science curriculum standards, as well as introduce young space enthusiasts to the latest space technology. Innovative, grade-appropriate activities and experiments, critical-thinking questions, and fascinating fact boxes will give kids a chance to think like an astronaut.