Books with author Lisa Carol Williams

Now that Laura is 12 years old, she realizes that everything about her mother is totally embarrassing. Like the way she yodels at the top of her lungs while she works (okay, she calls it singing). And plays really old music so loud the neighbors can hear (can’t she listen to normal music?). And walks around in clay-covered pajamas (yes, she is a sculptor, but still . . . ). But things are about to get much, much worse. Laura has noticed that her mother is getting a little bit, well, fat. Then one night over dinner (at a restaurant, since she almost burned down the house trying to cook), her mother announces that she’s going to have a baby. Now all the neighbors, including the gorgeous boy Laura has a crush on, will know her parents have been doing it. Maybe even in the house! There must be some way Laura can change her mother before her own life is completely, utterly ruined!

Now that Laura is 12 years old, she realizes that everything about her mother is totally embarrassing. Like the way she yodels at the top of her lungs while she works (okay, she calls it singing). And plays really old music so loud the neighbors can hear (can’t she listen to normal music?). And walks around in clay-covered pajamas (yes, she is a sculptor, but still . . . ). But things are about to get much, much worse. Laura has noticed that her mother is getting a little bit, well, fat. Then one night over dinner (at a restaurant, since she almost burned down the house trying to cook), her mother announces that she’s going to have a baby. Now all the neighbors, including the gorgeous boy Laura has a crush on, will know her parents have been doing it. Maybe even in the house! There must be some way Laura can change her mother before her own life is completely, utterly ruined!From the Hardcover edition.

Now that Laura is 12 years old, she realizes that everything about her mother is totally embarrassing. Like the way she yodels at the top of her lungs while she works (okay, she calls it singing). And plays really "old" music so loud the neighbors can hear (can't she listen to normal music?). And walks around in clay-covered pajamas (yes, she "is" a sculptor, but still . . . ). But things are about to get much, much worse. Laura has noticed that her mother is getting a little bit, well, fat. Then one night over dinner (at a restaurant, since she almost burned down the house trying to cook), her mother announces that she's going to have a baby. Now all the neighbors, including the gorgeous boy Laura has a crush on, will know her parents have been "doing" it. Maybe even in the house! There must be some way Laura can change her mother before her own life is completely, utterly ruined! "From the Hardcover edition."

"IT WAS ME" takes us into the life of a young scared mother raising her teenage boy in the city of Baton Rouge, La. where the spirit of murder was running rampant. Nightly she would sit on the edge of the bed and watch the news, observing the violent crimes (homicides) being committed almost every night.Some of these crimes were in her area. Silently she would whisper to herself a prayer for all the mothers and families that were hurting due to the loss of their loved ones. The life of a mothers pages turn who had been given a new journey. This was a journey that she didn't expect and wasn't quite sure that she was ready to take. This was a journey in which she questioned if she could even survive. "IT WAS ME" will take you down a path of traveling grace, and up a mountain of Great Faith. Journey along and see how through this mothers unwavering faith, and through her journey of endless days and sleepless nights of tears she made it. Turn the pages of an inspiring story that unfolds how she turned her tragedy into a victory.

'Like a Tree Planted' is an environmental science fiction novel about Miranda, a teenager from future San Diego which is enclosed in a Dome because chemicals destroyed the natural world. The daughter of scientists, Miranda is Keeper of The Last Tree which is dying. She is also great-granddaughter of famous twentieth-century environmentalist Gabrielle Leigh who foresaw the trees' destruction. By means of The Archives, a futuristic multimedia library, Miranda studies Gabrielle's life. Each 'visit' through The Portal becomes more real, and Miranda gradually materializes in twentieth-century Oregon to explore--with Gabrielle--the Pacific Northwest evergreen forests. As Miranda gets more involved in the past, she watches Gabrielle fall in love with a logger who gets caught in the battle between loggers and 'greens.' Back under the future Dome, Miranda's family and boyfriend try to keep her from being trapped in the past as local anti-nature opposition hunts them down. Miranda and Gabrielle struggle, between two places and times, to reintroduce trees to the future and lead people outside The Dome. For teens and adults.