Books with author Lyndi Alexander

Seven Steps To Get Your Child's Weight On Track. Includes The PariPlan book and companion CD with printable activity sheets, action plans and tips. If your child is overweight and you want to do something about it, the PariPlan was designed for you. Forget about placing your child on a diet, forget about structured exercise, forget about programs crafted by practitioners who have never dealt with an overweight child in their own family. The PariPlan (pear-ee) was developed by Lisa Alexander, a busy mother who has transformed her own child and her entire family through this proven approach to lifestyle change. The PariPlan provides you with all the tools you need to get your child's weight on track. The master guide book lays out a concise plan. The companion CD-ROM contains simple software tools, activity sheets and printable tips, menu ideas and action items to support the book. You will be educated and inspired by Lisa Alexander's story and her clear, common sense approach. In fact, Pediatrician Dr. Donald L. Meyer was so impressed with The PariPlan, he contributed the foreward to the PariPlan book. Part One of the PariPlan lays the foundation for positive change. Part Two gives you seven steps that will lead you to success. Part Three provides tools and tips that will help make it easy to implement and maintain. Because The PariPlan was designed by a busy working mother, the entire focus is to help families break through their own busy schedules and create positive changes for their children. Are you ready to embark on a lifestyle plan that will get your child's weight on track?

Logicide! Heretic! Everyone knows cats can't talk. Everyone except Niclas, a halfwit slum boy who's just landed a new job as a talking cat's man servant.But this is Laburnum and the age of Rationalism. Here, the Academy's Inquisition takes illogical happenings very seriously. Locking people up, throwing away keys, that sort of thing.And it's not just the Crimson Men Niclas and his new master have to worry about. A man with no name has come to the capital in search of the Black Science - They call him Witchhunter.

A wise and moving look at the most profoundly life-changing passage of all-losing our parents. Losing our parents when we ourselves are adults is the natural order of things, a rite of passage into true adulthood. But whether or not we have expected the death of our parents after a prolonged illness, were close to or alienated from them, this passage is inevitably harder than we thought it would be. A much needed and knowing discussion of this adult phenomenon, The Orphaned Adult validates the wide array of disorienting emotions that can accompany the death of our parents by sharing both the author's heart-felt experience of loss and the moving stories of countless adults who have shared their losses with him. From the recognition of our own mortality and sudden child-like sorrow to a sometimes-subtle change in identity or shift of roles in the surviving family, The Orphaned Adult guides readers through the storm of change this passage brings and anchors them with i

The Space Defender books are science fiction adventure books for middle grade readers who love science, space, aliens, robots, tech, and smart, brave kids. “You, you are the one. We have found you. We will destroy you. We will destroy you.” Carlos Zera has gotten used to a life of pranks and getting kicked out of school. But when a mysterious arrival delivers the unfortunate news that an ancient alien race is speeding across the galaxy to destroy him, Carl finds himself in the middle of a centuries-old war with an alien species bent on humanity's destruction. Carl and his friends Scarlett and Hector must foil the plot of an evil warlord before he acquires a long-forgotten artifact that may hold the key to the survival of the entire galaxy. Armed only with their courage and loyalty to one another, they battle their way through a maze of robots, discover new life forms, and make the ultimate sacrifice for the safety of their friends. Along the way Carl is transformed from prankster to reluctant hero and learns that the universe is much bigger, more dangerous, and more wondrous than he ever thought possible.