Books with author Maranda Elizabeth

Titles in Barron's extensive Painless Series cover a wide range of subjects as they are taught on middle school and high school levels. These books are written for students who find the subjects unusually difficult and confusing--or in many cases, just plain boring. Barron's Painless Series authors' main goal is to clear up students' confusion and perk up their interest by emphasizing the intriguing and often exciting ways in which they can put each subject to practical use. Most of these books take a light-hearted approach to their subjects, often employing humor, and always presenting fun-learning exercises that include puzzles, games, and challenging "Brain Tickler" problems to solve. American English sound and letter patterns, homophones, prefixes and suffixes, and more are all presented with fun-to-solve "Brain Ticklers" to self-test students' learning progress. ATTENTION STUDENTS: You get a special FREE bonus when you purchase your copy of Barron's Painless Spelling Barron's is taking Painless to the next level: FUN! Sealed inside your copy of Painless Spelling, you'll find a code that gives you access to a FREE app. Simply key in that code on your iPhone, iTouch, iPad or Android device, and you download a fun-to-play improve-your-spelling arcade game challenge that will reinforce your skill in mastering correct spelling!

Enter the ExtraOrdinary world. While magic is real and witches walk among us, a young woman is sacrificed on Halloween night and reborn as an OtherWorldly Seer. The Seer was an Ordinary girl thrust into a new reality of invisibility, ginormous wings, and unimaginable enchantments. 45 Celtic images leap off the page with designs to help you unravel the ExtraOrdinary world. Each drawing is accompanied by fact-filled captions that help you explore the Seer’s new reality. Imagine the Celtic gods and goddesses of the OtherWorld, explore things the clandestine Order wish to keep hidden from the Ordinary world. Now, relax and reduce stress with this young adult coloring book as you take a visual journey one curse, cantrip, and Celtic lover’s knot at a time. As the pages of the compendium unfold you will learn even more about the mysterious clan of witches who call Salem home. The Seer, A Celtic Coloring Book and Compendium, is a must have companion for any reader of the Deadly Fairy Tales series. And at the back, don’t miss Book 1 in this series.

Mortimer University is celebrating families this weekend and The Peterson gang is ready! Amelia's thrilled at the prospect of seeing her family but she also has some anxieties. Her first meeting with her academic advisor didn't go as she had planned and now her Mom is pressuring her to convince her sister of something that is completely out of her control. Will everyone make it out of the weekend alive? (And if they do, will they still like each other?) Amelia's about to find out!

A light-hearted tale of a boy who gains self-confidence with the help of some timely mentoring. Albert is short -- very short -- and he hates it. His older brothers are tall like his father, but he takes after his petite mother. He wears too-large hand-me-down clothes from his bigger brothers. And worst of all, his very best friend moved away to Brooklyn during the school break. It was all so unfair. Albert is beginning Middle School on Little Scrub, the small Caribbean Island where he lives. As he steps on the bus, and sees the older kids, he feels smaller than ever. They take one look at him and howl with laughter, chanting "Little Man, Little Man, you so small, didn't hardly see you at all." Things go downhill from there, and would've stayed down if it wasn't for an encounter with Peachy, the leader of a troupe of stiltwalkers. The stiltwalkers do a lot more than walk: they dance and leap across the sand on spindly eight-foot high wooden stilts, their brilliantly colored costumes shimmering in the moonlight. Peachy invites Albert to join the high school students he teaches to stiltwalk. It's not an easy decision for Albert. Would they laugh at him even harder than the Middle School kids? And he is queasy about heights. The thought of wobbling around on those skinny wooden sticks makes him woozy with fear. But Albert is won over by the thought that one day he might actually be up there, tall as a palm tree, dancing around without fear or hesitation. Besides, desperate times call for desperate measures and nobody was more desperate than Albert. Slowly, as his stiltwalking improves, Albert finds his self-confidence grows. He becomes less of a target for teasing at school and he makes some new friends.

Babyshock! is for any parents who have forgotten what it's like to be a couple because their children have taken over their lives. The experiences of pregnancy, childbirth and caring for children are wonderful, but also put a great deal of pressure on a relationship. This book identifies the pressures and provides excellent practical and emotional strategies so that you can enjoy parenthood while also nurturing your own relationship with each other.This immensely practical guide will help you:- Create time for yourself- Improve your sex life- Manage the demands of work and family- Work through disagreements and agree on how you will bring up the childrenPacked with questionnaires, check lists and anecdotes, Babyshock! will help you keep your relationship alive and get the very best out of family life, together.

Audrey Kinkora only has three goals in life: become the best volleyball player on her team, attend the best parties on campus, and have the hottest guy as a boyfriend at Arial State University, and, so far, she's achieved all three.When she finds out she's one of the few half-Fae and half-Mer hybrids in her small, magical hometown, she's faced with the decision to take up responsibilities that she finds too difficult to deal with, and everything – including the scales! – that comes along with it. These duties includes saving the peoples whose blood runs through her veins while dealing with the allure of the college life calls her name, which is growing stronger every minute. But soon Audrey realizes that the longer and farther she hides, the worse the pangs that comes with responsibilities get – and the faster she gets thrown down the hole as she encounters the mystery of the blood of the Mer and Fae and all it entails.

We find Soar again, having left her pigeon family to pursue her destiny. Her journey begins blissfully, soaring the plains and forests of the Texas landscape only to discover a very different world. Beyond the tall brick buildings and concrete mazes of the life she leaves behind, the trees of the forest initiate her into the real world beyond her safe and loving nest she once called home. Leaving the Nest is the second story in the delightful series, An Eagle Soars. These insightful stories, while designed and illustrated for a younger audience, are truly reminiscent of the comfort and treasures of days gone by — when reading a story with pictures filled the heart and imagination with curiosity and dreams. They are sure to resonate with readers of all ages! This wise and introspective series begins with the wisdom that all creatures are born as divine beings with a gift to share, and urges all of us to find the courage to be more than the world we were born into — while gently sharing the lessons of honesty, forgiveness... and love.