Books with author MARY ANN

David Chen Po is a Yeti who likes living in this human world. He likes watching television and on-line gaming and junk food. And he especially likes Maria Sungila, the girl from his Algebra class. Through the support of his foster parents, both well respected research scientists and a daily dose of a hormone and steroid cocktail they developed, he can pass as any other fifteen year old boy.Maria Sungila knew David was special the moment he walked into her Algebra class. He wasn’t a jerk like all the other boys. He was smart and nice, and he was actually taller than her. Not many fifteen year old boys can top her 5’10” height.When David’s foster parents are killed in a suspicious fire and the nasty rumors about him start to spread around the school and town, Maria loyally and fiercely defends him to everybody-her friends, her family and the police.With the local police, the FBI and his despised nemesis, Warren Yates, after him David doesn’t have a lot of options. His ability to live as a human died with his foster parents, now he just wants to survive. His only hope is to find his biological father and return to the life from which he was snatched years ago.With the help of Miss Gilly, a sharp shooting legend; Jason Hanover; the annoying boy next door neighbor and of course Maria, David embarks on a hilarious and terrifying road trip to find his Yeti father and to live the life to which he was born.

The Mists of Time is part of a series of children's books about a little girl and her magic pegasus friend. In The Mists of Time, the pegasus, Mekore, which means Eternal Spirit, takes Cassie to the Land of Eternal Time. She sees the star Sirius which shines upon the pyramids of ancient Egypt and encounters the dog-man Anubis and the hawk-man Horus. She steps into the mists of time and becomes Meryetamen, an Egyptian princess. She learns about hieroglyphics, or writing with pictures. She dances for her father the pharoah and plays the sistrum, a musical instrument that rattles when shaken.

Gratitude is one of the most important things you can teach a child!Take your child on a journey through a prehistoric land where dinosaurs express what they are grateful for! The whimsical pictures and thought-provoking words will have your boy or girl wanting to read it again and again. The values taught in this fun book are perfect for children ages 5 - 8, but can be enjoyed by almost any age! Teach your kids the value of gratitude and what it can do for them in their lives! This great book is the perfect starting point and will have your children smiling!

Welcome to Ravens Cove, Alaska, a tiny town nestled in a small hollow on the majestic Cook Inlet. A town familiar with storytelling—after all, Alaska abounds in rich legends. In Ravens Cove, though, legends have a tendency to come to life. Meet Josiah Williams, the peculiar stranger whose warning to lifetime residents Kat Tovslosky and her cousin, Sheriff Bart Andersen, raises more questions than answers; a man whose dark past and knowledge of the murders make him a suspect more than an ally. Join Kat and Bart as an unlikely troop forms (including an unwelcome FBI agent) to discover the identity of a killer. The unearthing of which will throw the reluctant warriors into a battle for their very lives and the lives of all who call Ravens Cove home.

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

It’s September 1943, and eleven-year-old Ellie McKelvey’s older brother, Jimmy, has just been drafted. Jimmy has a joyful heart and a kind word for everyone, and he’s the only person who thinks Ellie is smart and funny and as beautiful as Lana Turner, the movie star. Ellie can hardly stand to see him go. With Jimmy gone, Aunt Toots moves into his bedroom, Ellie’s mother takes a war job at a factory, and everything in Ellie’s life seems upside down. But she figures that the war will be over and Jimmy home by Christmas, so as much as she misses him, she keeps her spirits up. Even as families in the neighborhood begin to receive telegrams informing them that their boys are wounded or worse, Ellie never stops believing in Jimmy. In her second work of historical fiction, Mary Ann Rodman captures all the authentic details of life on the homefront during World War II, as well as the fierce love a sister has for her beloved big brother.Jimmy's Stars is a 2009 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.