Books with author Madeleine Rosca

Little Lucy Snow should have been enjoying her first day at the town€™s prestigious elementary school; however a macabre twist of fate sees her enrolled instead at Miss Weaver€™s Academy for the Scientifically Gifted and Ethically Unfettered€”also known as Hollow Fields. Located on the outskirts of Nullsville and run by the insidious Engineers, the grim boarding school dedicates itself to raising the next generation of mad scientists and evil geniuses! Classes include Live Taxidermy, Cross-Species Body Part Transplantation, and Killer Robot Construction. For her own survival, Lucy must master her lessons quickly...the student with the lowest grades at the end of each week is sent to the old windmill for detention€”and so far, no child has ever returned.In this third and final volume of Hollow Fields, the mysteries of the windmill and the scope of Miss Weaver€™s evil plans are revealed, as the story winds to a thrilling conclusion!

Teach your children about our feathered friends with this fun and educational book, part of a series that explores the natural world. The series has three existing titles: The Safari Set, The Polar Pack and The Jungle Crew, and two new titles exploring sea creatures and forest animals: The Marine Team and The Forest Folk.Five birds – a flamingo, owl, hummingbird, albatross and pelican – are explored through rhyme and pictures. With two spreads dedicated to each bird, adults will be able to read the short playful rhyme on each spread to children and look at the bright illustrations to teach them about their habits and environment. The book also features some fun facts about each animal on the inside back cover. (Button Books Button Books)

Happy to Be Me is a playful and interactive storybook. It leads children and adults through a healthy yoga practice that is accessible to all abilities, including children with autism and other special needs.The book includes yoga instructions and tips for parents and teachers to feel confident bringing Happy to Be Me into their homes and classrooms.The yoga practice in Happy to Be Me brings balance, peace, and well-being into the lives of children of all abilities around the world. A percentage of the proceeds will be donated to children with special needs in India, the source of inspiration for the book.Transform with Happy to Be Me today!

Teach your children about the animals of the Polar Regions with this fun and educational book, part of a series that explores the natural world. Its companion titles, The Jungle Crew and The Safari Set, focus on the Rainforest and Savannah. The Polar Pack features five animals – a penguin, polar bear, snowy owl, walrus and reindeer – with delightful rhyming text and gorgeous illustrations which young children will find hugely appealing and adults will love to share with them. There are two spreads dedicated to each animal as well as a small introduction and summary page. The book also features some fun facts about each animal on the inside back cover.

Happy to Be Me is a playful and interactive storybook. It leads children and adults through a healthy yoga practice that is accessible to all abilities, including children with autism and other special needs.The book includes yoga instructions and tips for parents and teachers to feel confident bringing Happy to Be Me into their homes and classrooms.The yoga practice in Happy to Be Me brings balance, peace, and well-being into the lives of children of all abilities around the world. A percentage of the proceeds will be donated to children with special needs in India, the source of inspiration for the book.Transform with Happy to Be Me today!

Teach your children about the animals of the Savannah with this fun and educational book. Five animals are explored through rhyme, pictures, and pull-out 2D figures to construct into 3D: leopard, giraffe, elephant, lion, and zebra. With two spreads dedicated to each animal, adults are able to read the short playful rhyme on each spread to children and look at the bright illustrations to teach them about the animal and its environment. Children can then pop out the paper animals from the perforated pages contained in a pocket in the back of the book and create 3D figures simply by folding and adding a bit of glue. This helps to develop their motor skills and encourage imaginative play and conversation.

[Young Adult Fiction (Ages 12-17)][Read by Michael Goldstrom] This thrilling and creepy sequel to the New York Times bestselling photo-illustrated novel Asylum features more mind-bending revelations, page-turning action, and chilling photographs - this time from real vintage carnivals. Back at their high schools, Dan, Abby, and Jordan are plagued with nightmares about the traumatic summer they shared in the Brookline asylum. Much as they'd love to move on with their lives, someone is determined to keep the terror going, sending the three teens photos of what looks like an old-timey carnival, with no note and no name. Then Dan receives a list of coordinates pointing to abandoned houses in the town near Brookline, and he is convinced that the only way to end the nightmare once and for all is to return to New Hampshire College and follow the trail. But when they arrive under the guise of a prospective students' weekend, Dan and his friends are shocked to discover that the carnival from their photos isn't just real, it's here on campus. And as they sneak away from their undergrad hosts to visit the houses on their list, they find secrets far darker than anything they'd imagined - secrets about the real source of the late asylum warden's power, and a society known today only as the Scarlets. Now, haunted by the ghosts of a town with a terrible past and pursued by a host of very real enemies, Dan and his friends can only hope to make it out of this campus visit alive.

Teach your children about the animals of the polar regions with this fun and educational book. Five animals are explored through rhyme, pictures, and pull-out 2D figures to construct into 3D: penguin, polar bear, snowy owl, walrus, and reindeer. With two spreads dedicated to each animal, adults are able to read the short playful rhyme on each spread to children and look at the bright illustrations to teach them about the animal and its environment. Children are then able to pop out the paper animals from the perforated pages contained in a pocket in the back of the book and create 3D figures simply by folding and adding a few dabs of glue.

Teach your children about the animals of the rainforest with this fun and educational book. It is part of a new series alongside two other titles, The Safari Set and The Polar Pack, that focus on the Savannah and polar regions. Five animals are explored through rhyme, pictures, and pull-out 2D figures to construct into 3D: monkey, crocodile, tree frog, parrot, and toucan. With two spreads dedicated to each animal, adults are able to read the short playful rhyme on each spread to children and look at the bright illustrations to teach them about the animal and its environment. Children are then able to pop out the paper animals from the perforated pages contained in a pocket in the back of the book and create 3D figures simply by folding and adding few dabs of glue. The inside of the dust jacket is printed full color with a representation of the animals’ environment in a style identical to the illustrations within the book. Children have the option of using this as a backdrop and there are also accessories to make and add to the scene.

An all-new creepy fantasy series from the New York Times bestselling author of Asylum.Featuring stunning interior illustrations from artist Iris Compiet, plus photo-collages that bring the story to chilling life, House of Furies invites readers to a world where the line between monsters and men is ghostly thin.After escaping a harsh school where punishment was the lesson of the day, seventeen-year-old Louisa Ditton is thrilled to find employment as a maid at a boarding house. But soon after her arrival at Coldthistle House, Louisa begins to realize that the house s mysterious owner, Mr. Morningside, is providing much more than lodging for his guests. Far from a place of rest, the house is a place of judgment, and Mr. Morningside and his unusual staff are meant to execute their own justice on those who are past being saved.Louisa begins to fear for a young man named Lee who is not like the other guests. He is charismatic and kind, and Louisa knows that it may be up to her to save him from an untimely judgment. But in this house of distortions and lies, how can Louisa be sure who to trust?

In this terrifying prequel novel to the New York Times bestselling Asylum series, a teen is wrongfully committed to the Brookline psychiatric hospital and must find a way out—before he becomes the next victim of the evil warden’s experiments. With the page-turning suspense and unsettling found photographs from real asylums that led Publishers Weekly to call Asylum “a strong YA debut,” Escape from Asylum is perfect for fans of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children.The nightmare is just beginning.Ricky Desmond has been through this all before. If he could just get through to his mother, he could convince her that he doesn’t belong at Brookline. From the man who thinks he can fly to the woman who killed her husband, the other patients are nothing like him; all he did was lose his temper just a little bit, just the once. But when Ricky is selected by the sinister Warden Crawford for a very special program—a program that the warden claims will not cure him but perfect him—Ricky realizes that he may not be able to wait for his mom a second longer. With the help of a sympathetic nurse and a fellow patient, Ricky needs to escape now.Set long before Dan, Abby, and Jordan ever walked the hallways of the Brookline asylum—back when it was still a functioning psych ward and not a dorm—Escape from Asylum is a mind-bending and scary installment in the Asylum series that can stand on its own for new readers or provide missing puzzle pieces for series fans.Don't miss Madeleine Roux's all-new gothic horror novel, House of Furies.