Books with author Lucy Christopher

Whether it's the corporate boardroom or the preschool playground, today's world has become a competitive, cutthroat place. Help give your little one the philosophical leg up with Machiavelli for Babies. Teach them how to acquire and wield great power, and ruthlessly bring destruction upon their rivals. The book features time-tested classic advice from history's most clever and scheming political adviser Niccolò Machiavelli, author of The Prince, accompanied by hilarious and bizarre mashup baby photos of inspiration and wonder. Prepare your little prince or princess to claim and defend the power that is rightfully theirs, with wisdom such as... "He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command." "It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver." "Politics have no relation to morals." "It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both."

In what passed for once upon a time to an entity of the infinite persuasion, God noticed some of his celestial flock had become listless, disengaged, and even a wee bit crabby...God's Little Red Pen is an original short story that wraps a humorous "what if?" into the grand "how & why?" by showing us an alternate take on creation where an exasperated God, looking to break his celestial flock out of a collective funk, enlists the help of his angels to work on his newest pet project: a little thing called "The Universe." From matter to mammals to math, every idea is up for the making so long as it passes one simple test; serve a purpose or be X'd from existence by God's little red pen. (Sorry, Mr. Jackalope.)While not everyone is thrilled about the whole affair (just ask the seraphim in charge of geology), one plucky angel's creations will either make her a legend...or land her a first class ticket to purgatory. Often funny, sometimes sad, and maybe a teeny bit thought provoking, God's Little Red Pen is a quick and quirky look at the big bang, where even a deity can be surprised by the imagination of his own creations.

Keeping My Hope, a historical fiction graphic novel written by 14 year old Christopher Huh, talks about the life of a young teenage boy named Ari Kolodiejski, who is caught in the horrors of the Final Solution. Now as a parent and grandparent, he tells his life story to his grandchildren. After surviving the world's most deadliest camp, he hopes to pass on his life legacy to his family.Ari is a strong and courageous teen who must battle for his life throughout the second world war. Ari is forever scarred from his deep past. Despite being kept prisoner at the Auschwitz Birkenau concentration camp, seeing the untimely death of hundreds, and forced to endure unbearable conditions in lice infested clothing, Ari keeps his friends close and struggles to live. Throughout his stay in the camp, he meets two inmates who both stand along with him, trying to help as often as they can. Friendship and belief is all they have left, in which the Nazis and the war strip away from the trio and ultimately brings the devastating disaster that awaits. When Ari and his two friends are slowing down in a death march during a blizzard and his friend has frostbite, Ari still helps his friend despite an SS guard approaching them with a pistol. He even claims that "carrying Saul was a challenge" (page 149), but does not want to leave him in the snow, knowing the fate his friend would face.He tries to help and aid his fellow camp inmates whenever possible. During at his stay at Auschwitz III, everyone fears one Kapo guard who is known for being a sadist on the prisoners with a rubber truncheon. Ari not only stands up against the Kapo, he even goes to the point of scaring him too. The guard showed "in his eyes...he was confused, maybe even fearful. Almost as if he was the beaten victim" (page 104). No matter what consequences are to come, he always gives his best effort in order to make a situation better. Throwing himself into the line of fire while no one else would is the shocking reality that made those like Ari from ordinary people to heroes.A true friend and strong Samaritan, Ari Kolodiejski is a person who is stuck with the ability to make anyone into being a friend with him. After his liberation of six years of terror, he tries to rebuild his life to replace the one he lost a lifetime ago. With his family's history stored safely in the minds of his grandchildren, he can now preserve his memories for his great-grandchildren and their children to remember. Keeping My Hope is an excellent book, and an even better one with the character of Ari.

Well known as the cleanest city in Europe, if not the world, Hamelin seems the perfect place for Sarah Weatherman to bring her accident-prone son, Bert. Hamelin is a world of cleanliness and tidiness, where there’s a place for everything and everyone knows their place. However, just as Sarah and Bert arrive, the town is besieged by a plague of rats and only one man seems able to help the beleaguered mayor and councillors.The mysterious Pied Piper promises to help the town, but at a price. Will the mayor forego his love of ermine robes in order to remove the rats? Or will the citizens abandon their obsessive cleanliness and tidiness and learn to love mess? As for the rats, will they ever gain the respect from humans they feel they deserve?With links to all-new songs, performed and recorded by Andy Merrifield, ‘The Pied Piper of Ham-a-lee-in’ is more than just a retelling of a well-loved tale. It is a musical adventure inspired by Robert Browning’s famous poem, a humorous story that the whole family will enjoy. Follow the fate of Ham-a-lee-in as the unfortunate citizens, their hapless mayor and his clever wife confront personal tragedy, political corruption and the horror of an unpolished cobble.‘The Pied Piper of Ham-a-lee-in’ is a wonderful way to introduce children to Browning’s poem and to explore moral issues in a light-hearted way. Based on a musical play originally written for a London primary school, it is perfect for the nine-thirteen year-old age range, but is sure to be enjoyed by those older and younger as well.

This unique encyclopedia enables students to understand the myriad ways that the Columbian Exchange shaped the modern world, covering every major living organism from pathogens and plants to insects and mammals.Most people have only the vaguest notion of how profoundly the world was changed by Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Americas. Indeed, some of what is commonly regarded as "traditional" Native American life and culture―living in teepees and hunting buffalo from horseback, for example―came from the arrival of Europeans. This encyclopedia helps students acquire fundamental information about the Columbian Exchange through approximately 100 alphabetically arranged entries on animals, plants, diseases, and items that were exchanged, accompanied by sidebars throughout that provide interesting discussions of key people, companies, and other related topics. The work begins with an introductory essay that overviews the Columbian exchange and not only addresses its biological and cultural components but also treats it as a political and economic event. The alphabetically organized entries cover topics ranging from the African slave trade, almonds, and alpacas to watermelon, whooping cough, and yellow fever. The encyclopedia also offers a chronology of the major events of the Columbian Exchange as well as 15 transcribed primary source documents that enable students to "look into history directly," including passages about the exchange that focus on the Irish Potato Famine, the slave trade, and the influenza pandemic of 1918–1919. • Represents the only encyclopedia to comprehensively treat the Columbian Exchange and document how this watershed event in history changed the world, not just in North America but worldwide• Provides full accounts of demographic and epidemiological trends and how the planet's current biodiversity resulted from the events of the Columbian Exchange• Includes primary documents that offer students material for analysis and promote critical thinking skills, thus supporting Common Core State Standards• Supplies both entry bibliographies and a selected, general bibliography to direct students to sources of additional information

Growth hormone got its name as its active in growing children and at puberty. But beyond the age of 30, like testosterone, it begins to dropoff. Yet research has proven that when at optimal levels it works to increase just about every health marker. * Increased Fat Loss * More GH typically leads to better Testosterone * Better Sexual Function * Improved Insulin Sensitivity * Lowers Cortisol * Improved Muscularity * Better Skin and Collagen Production * Better Use of Protein * Improved Sleep Quality * Improved Recovery * Strengthens Bones and Bone Marrow * Immune Protection * Lessens Pressure on the Liver * Better Concentration and Memory * Increased Energy * Restoring Lost Hair * Increased Cardiac Output * Better Vision * Normalized Blood Pressure * Enhances Availability of Vitamin D * Helps Depression * Longer Telomeres More growth hormone basically means younger. But forget expensive injections and the risks of side effects. Within Upgrade Your Growth Hormone you’ll learn everything you need to know to trigger your body’s own production. While the main focus is growth hormone, you can’t talk about just one hormone. Growth Hormone (GH) Insulin-Like Growth Factor 1 and 2 (IGF-1 and IGF-2) Growth Hormone Releasing Hormone (GHRH) Growth Hormone Inhibiting Hormone (GHIH) Various Growth Factors The Four BIG Factors in GH Release #1 – Sleep #2 – Fasting #3 – Exercise #4 – Secretagogues Each one of these is broken down by the science and what works to show you specific steps to follow to optimize the results. You’ll discover what you need to do and what you need to avoid in Upgrade Your Growth Hormone… * Upgrade Your Growth HormoneThe Relationship of Growth Hormone to Testosterone * Differences Between Men and Women * Blood Testing Levels (and why blood testing may NOT be the best option) * The Health of Your Glands * Minerals and Vitamins to Support Your Pituitary * The Liver as an Endocrine Organ * Why “Growth” is Misleading and the Best Way to Think about GH * Important: Growth Hormone is CATABOLIC in this Way * The Most Critical Part of Sleep for GH * How Exercise Might Make Up for Lack of Sleep?! * Ghrelin, the Hunger Hormone, and How it Triggers GH Release * Intermittant Fasting vs. 24 Hour Fasts vs. Longer Fasts * Carbs vs. Fat. Which is better for GH? * The #1 Factor in Training when it comes to Growth Hormone * When to go Explosive and When to go Slow * My Absolute Favorite GH Exercise * 12 Other Great Exercises * Three Different Training Methods Awesome for GH * Ideal Training Time and Frequency * Specific Amino Acid Dosages and Stacks to Use * 11 Amino Acids and Their Effects on GH * Getting these Amino Acids from Food * Niacin’s Effects on GH * 3 Top GH and IGF-1 Herbs * Few Know that This Practice Can Boost GH as Much as 16-Fold * The Dietary Growth Hormone You Need to Avoid * And Much More Stacking the Odds in Your Favor We’ll go further to show you how stacking these tips and tricks can lead to even greater GH boosts than by any one tactic by itself. But we also show how some common practices to do this may be wrong! Growth Hormone Action Checklist Finally we break it down into 25 action steps you can take found at the end.

Marvin Maywood only wants one thing in life—to join the heroes of the Core. But he can’t follow his dream because his powers are fed by fear, which is against the Core’s standards. So he lives on the streets and watches the elite team of costumed crime fighters from afar. After Marvin performs an illegal act of heroism, he meets Roisin, one of the Core’s heroes, and it seems like his chance to join the team has finally come. As she guides him through his tryout, he starts investigating some strange happenings within the Core. And when Marvin realizes that the idyllic hero life he imagined is a mask for the ugly reality lurking beneath it, he becomes caught in a corrupt web of secrets, lies, and death. "Loaded with action and moral ambiguity, this is a classic superhero story with noir sensibilities."—BOOKLIST“This is a superhero story for the post-punk era: Live fast, die young, and take over the world.”—Kirkus Reviews

Villains Make the Best Heroes Erica Belfry always wanted to be a superhero. What she didn’t want was to drive a supervillain’s getaway car as her idol, the cybernetic Sleek, chased her while a Shakespeare-quoting bad guy fired lightning bolts at their pursuer. Life can get complicated when you try to follow your dreams.After a botched attempt at heroics, Erica inadvertently finds herself on the wrong side of law as a supervillain. To avoid the ensuing media frenzy, Erica adopts a new identity as Princess Crash, and partners herself with Weatherman, a crotchety thespian with storm powers. Now she’s evading super-powered attacks, her police officer brother, and the jealous wrath of her former idol, Sleek, whose superhero boyfriend Erica has a crush on. However, none of this can prepare her for the terrible secret that lurks superhero world’s veil of mystery. For there isn’t any mercy for those who don’t play their part in the Theatre of Heels.

Robin Hood: one of the most iconic figures of British legend. Now, for the first time, the ‘true’ story of how he became an outlaw, outwitted Prince John and the Sheriff of Nottingham, exposed corruption, won the hand of Maid Marian and reclaimed his ancestral home can finally be told. Filled with characters both familiar and less familiar – including Sir Guy of Gisborne, and the hilarious Hench and Men – and featuring links to twelve original songs available online, The Adventures of Robin Hood is a fresh, funny re-telling of a classic tale. Perfect for children aged 9-13, this brand-new novel appeals to children of all ages.

Al Capone dove for the floor when he saw the flash of the camera, while his startled body guards drew their guns. The actress Miriam Hopkins ran screaming from the camera while Lyndon Johnson ran towards it. General Jimmy Doolittle called him a Son of a Bitch, while the Pope called him his friend. Bob Hope asked if he would escort Hope's wife to church, and John Barrymore asked if he would hide him from his mistress. Cary Grant demanded a shoe shine, Eleanor Roosevelt demanded an apology, and Harry Truman demanded a bourbon. Who was this guy? He was Mike Rotunno, and he was a photographer for one of Chicago's newspapers. Yet, he also photographed airplanes for the airlines, starting in the 1920's, the beginning of his 50 year career at Chicago's Midway airport. In that span he got to know everyone, great or small, and his story is like a cross between the movie The Terminal" and "Forrest Gump." He introduced movie stars to baseball players, Marilyn Monroe to a room full o."