Books with author Margaret R. Smith

The youngest of ten dragon brothers, the Littlest Dragon always has the best and brightest ideas for getting his own way. First book about this successful character. A Collins Roaring Good Read for new readers.The Littlest Dragon is known as Number 10. He is the youngest in a family of ten dragon brothers and in this first book about him, there are two stories. The first story is where aThe Littlest Dragon has to come up with the best and brightest way to get a good night’s sleep. In the second story, the big dragon brothers won’t let The Littlest Dragon play football with them, so he has to be resourceful and get his own kit together and persuade Mum to take him to the match. Then he manages to come up with an idea which wins the praise of the most famous footballing dragon in the world, Dragon McFeet,. Number Ten gets to keep his winning jersey, much to the disgust of his brothers.

'The Gleeman has been taken prisoner and needs our help' - Those ten words plunge Jonathan Williams, Ben Straker and Victoria Taylor into another astonishing time-travel adventure. Having been told by a young girl, Tamara, that their friend and mentor, the Gleeman has been arrested, they go back to Tudor England to rescue him. There they quickly become aware of the underlying tension of the period... a tension that culminates in the terrifying flames of a public execution while they are trying to escape back to the twenty-first century.

A third title about the little dragon with the big ideas! Although he’s the littlest, he has the biggest and funniest ideas for getting his own way.Two more stories about the Littlest Dragon who is the tenth child in the Dragon family. With nine older brothers, No 10 has to be ever more resourceful to get what he wants.In the first story, it’s Littlest Dragon’s birthday. But he never gets to play with any of his birthday presents because his big brothers get there first. Fed up with this, he and his cousin Emerald hatch a plot to get them out of the way… and, as usual, he wins the day!In the second story the littlest dragon wins Dragon McFeet’s football boots in a raffle – much to his older brothers disgust.Perfect for children who are just reading on their own. There’s plenty of repetition and alliteration, illustrations on every page and a lively story to follow the first two successful books.

Born two months premature starts life's journey that will be filled with emotional and physical struggles for a little girl named Summer Gale Dupree. Summer Gale's growth is much slower than her peers, she is painfully shy and she is academically challenged. Beginning school she quickly learns that being teased, threatened, and bullied will be a way of life for her. At the tender age of nine years old she becomes a victim of a medical condition called Alopecia and she looses the one thing that made her feel normal, her beautiful hair. Summer Gale was born in a small farming town in 1948, a time when few victims received attention and even fewer received help from cruel bullies. Summer Gale's mother begins her story by briefly telling about the stormy night she was born. Then Summer Gale continues from the first grade throughout her senior year of high school.