Books with author Michelle Barnes

550 Easy Instant Pot Recipes for Quick & Efficient Cooking!Do you crave quick & effortless instant pot recipes? Would like to save precious time with effortless, yet tasty pressure cooker recipes?The Complete Instant Pot Cookbook for Beginners by Michelle Jones is focused on creating the one and only Instant Pot recipe book with 550 delicious meals, that you'll ever need to cook to master the Instant Pot Pressure Cooker. This content is presented in the following categories:My Favorite Morning RecipesEnergizing Soups and Side DishesGreat Vegan and Vegetarian instant pot recipesGreat variety of Pasta, Beans and GrainsFascinating Desserts & DrinksLots of protein recipes - Poultry, Meat, Fish & SeafoodCraveable Appetizers & SnacksThis complete Instant Pot cookbook for Beginners will take care of your scarce cooking time and will aid you towards easier & tastier experience in your kitchen!

Who can Lena trust to help her find out the truth? Life in East Germany in the early 1980s is not easy for most people, but for Lena, it’s particularly hard. After the death of her parents in a factory explosion and time spent in a psychiatric hospital recovering from the trauma, she is sent to live with her stern aunt, a devoted member of the ruling Communist Party. Visits with her beloved Uncle Erich, a best-selling author, are her only respite. But one night, her uncle disappears without a trace. Gone also are all his belongings, his books, and even his birth records. Lena is desperate to know what happened to him, but it’s as if he never existed. The worst thing, however, is that she cannot discuss her uncle or her attempts to find him with anyone, not even her best friends. There are government spies everywhere. But Lena is unafraid and refuses to give up her search, regardless of the consequences. This searing novel about defiance, courage, and determination takes readers into the chilling world of a society ruled by autocratic despots, where nothing is what it seems.

Today’s Little Ditty is more than a children’s poetry blog, it’s a poetry playground. Each month, a lively community of writers, teachers, librarians, and poetry-appreciators gathers to take part in the Ditty of the Month Club (DMC). Writing to prompts by successful authors and editors, they participate for the camaraderie, and for the joy and craft of writing poetry.In THE BEST OF TODAY'S LITTLE DITTY: 2016, nine “ditty” challenges by contemporary children’s authors, including Jane Yolen, David L. Harrison, Marilyn Singer, Kenn Nesbitt, Douglas Florian, Amy Ludwig VanDerwater, and others, have inspired these 75 poems, deemed “best” by their peers. They range from lighthearted to thought-provoking and appeal to a wide audience, from children to adults. Join the fun at michellehbarnes.blogspot.com. What people are saying about Today’s Little Ditty and the Ditty of the Month Club:“Sometimes a poet needs a bit of smooth transition into another poem, sometimes a kick to the rear. Today’s Little Ditty supplies both. This goes for old poets as well as new!”— Jane Yolen, multi-award-winning author of more than 365 books“Writing with Michelle feels like I'm participating in a workshop. I've learned so much from keeping up with Today’s Little Ditty.”— Linda Mitchell, middle school teacher librarian“How to build your skills as a children's poet? Read anthologies! THE BEST OF TODAY'S LITTLE DITTY is a great tutorial because each section contains several poems written from the same prompt. Maybe you'll find the best thing of all: that you write like no one other than yourself.”— Janet Wong, children's poet and co-creator of THE POETRY FRIDAY ANTHOLOGY and POETRY FRIDAY POWER BOOK series

Today’s Little Ditty is more than a children’s poetry blog, it’s a poetry playground. Each month, a vibrant community of writers, teachers, librarians, and poetry-appreciators gathers to take part in the Ditty of the Month Club (DMC). Writing to prompts by successful authors and editors, they participate for the camaraderie, and for the joy and craft of writing poetry.In THE BEST OF TODAY'S LITTLE DITTY, 2014-2015, thirteen “ditty” challenges by contemporary children’s authors, including Nikki Grimes, Lee Bennett Hopkins, J. Patrick Lewis, Joyce Sidman, Margarita Engle, Kwame Alexander, and others, have inspired these 75 poems, deemed “best” by their peers. They range from lighthearted to thought-provoking and appeal to a wide audience, from children to adults. Join the fun at michellehbarnes.blogspot.com. What people are saying about Today’s Little Ditty and the Ditty of the Month Club:“ ‘Poetry is prose, bent out of shape,’ I like to say, and for proof, you need only connect with Michelle Heidenrich Barnes’s Ditty of the Month Club, where children’s poets are busy flexing their poetic muscles through the use of various verse forms. They are not showing off; they’re practicing. And they invite you to do the same.”— J. Patrick Lewis, former U.S. Children’s Poet Laureate (2011-2013) and recipient of the NCTE Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children“The Ditty of the Month Club . . . gives my students a way to participate and be celebrated as practicing poets.”— Margaret G. Simon, teacher of gifted studies and recipient of the 2014 NCTE Donald H. Graves Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Writing"Today's Little Ditty is an amazing resource in the blogging community of poetry for young people with more than 500 posts that invite us to learn, try, pause, write, celebrate, read, think, and revel in poetry and all it has to offer us in our uber-busy lives.”— Dr. Sylvia Vardell, professor of children’s literature at Texas Woman’s University and recipient of the 2014 Scholastic Library Publishing Award for her work in the field

We all know kids love to stuff their pockets with neat things. Now, with our new How to Make Books with Pockets Series, they'll have a book they created themselves, with plenty of pockets to stuff with all sorts of neat "discoveries."Each volume contains complete instructions and materials to make three different books with pockets, based on a topic pertinent to the month, and utilizing items and information you have readily available. The three topics for January and examples of the activities that go in the pockets:The Four Seasons: cut, paste and paint an apple tree in each season, torn-paper snowman, summer beach scene, scarecrow crayon resist, "Things That Fall" and Things That Spring" books, a writing form for each seasonPenguins: penguins minibook, penguins picture cards, 2 bookmaking projects, penguin life cycle wheel, map activityFamous Americans: a pocket for each of these Americans who were born in January-John Hancock, Betsy Ross, Benjamin Franklin, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; information, art projects, writing activitiesLessons include colorful art projects, creative writing, nonfiction writing, science, informational reading and writing, and literature. You get reproducibles galore -- minibooks, patterns, writing forms. Interactive bulletin boards, calendar form, and up-to-date bibliographies included. Step-by-step instructions provided, including ways to make book covers extra special. Lots of reproducible illustrations included. All 96 pages perforated for easy removal. Help your students make books with pockets and they'll have a resource they created themselves of which they can be proud.

What do you do when you’re trapped in your mind? When you can’t escape the feelings of depression and fear?A Way Out gives a raw, unfiltered look into the life and thoughts of a young woman, Michelle, experiencing severe depression and social anxiety. Social anxiety plagued her since her early youth, hindering her most as a young adult. She began having suicidal thoughts in her early teens but didn’t perceive them as being abnormal. This eventually evolved into a deep depression. Her social anxiety and depression fueled each other, creating a grave cycle of negative thoughts. Michelle is able to share her experiences in a way that allows others to go along for the ride with her: the highs, the lows, and the amusingly unexpected. It artfully conveys Michelle’s journey through mental illness and toward mental health. Beyond the haunting honesty, A Way Out delivers heart, humour, and hope.