Books with author N Griffiths

Two sisters lost in a fantasy world alone and afraid surrounded by magic and mayhem. The journey is to get their kin back together surrounded by a magical land full of strange creatures only a breath away from their home in Wales.The journey becomes a quest and a fight to get her sister back. The witch and the warrior become the saviours of this strange land. In a land full of children where the adults are far and few between. The orphans need someone to look up too and the eldest sister becomes their hope and shinning light in the dismay of a crumbling world around them.Below, beneath withinthe magic is Celtina.

This inspiring resource contains 48 of the world's greatest stories dramatically retold for reading aloud with children aged 5-11. They vary in length and topic, but all contain important Christian truths. There are a few Bible stories, but most are taken from classic literature or from folk tales. Drawing on the rich imaginations of master storytellers throughout the ages author Mark Griffiths brings their creations vividly to life. He includes three delightful tales from Oscar Wilde. His retelling of the Russian Shoemaker by Leo Tolstoy is enchanting and a must read for Christmas. There are other more traditional stories from around the world, such as Antonio the Juggler from Italy and the tragic tale of Gelert from Wales. Some of the stories are true the story of Gladys Aylward who rescued children in China and the delightful tale of how Amy Carmichael prayed for blue eyes others tell of wondrous adventure such as Ruth Sanderson's "The Enchanted Wood" and the delightful "Hugs and Kisses" contest. There are many, many more. This is a charming book that will be enjoyed time and again. It will hold the attention of both children and adults and will lead to fruitful discussions of bigger themes such as truth, courage and identity.

Would you like an adventure on another planet? This is just one of the questions Lara and her sister, Eva, must answer one sunny day in their garden. They wonder how will they return to Earth in time for lunch? And how will they get there when the aliens’ spaceship is so small? When it’s only big enough for ants!But their help is needed on the planet Zeegrazzalo-Jeewoppza so off they go – into the unknown. Their feelings of helplessness only start to fade after a flight across the planet's Outerlands, in Kweezy Capolza's hummingcraft. Maybe, just maybe, the sisters can find some solutions to the aliens' problems. However, they think they might need their mother's help and she is back on Earth!

Maybe she’s right to be miserable. A social misfit and mediocre student, she has never known her mother, and her father seems to hate her.This is the life of Taylor Dresden, a freshman in a gritty New Jersey high school. The only pleasure she’s ever had was playing baseball. But at the age of eight, she stopped playing when she overheard her dad say how embarrassed he was that her athletic talent far exceeded her older brother’s.A fourteen-year-old struggling to find her true self, Taylor commits a single incident of alcohol-induced vandalism at her new school, and is suddenly branded a juvenile delinquent. Her guidance counselor, instead of pressing charges on the school’s behalf, offers her an alternate punishment—join the baseball team and talk regularly to him. Forced to play baseball once again, Taylor continues to feel that life has thrown her a few too many curves. None of the boys want her on the team. No girls are friendly to her. Her dad ignores her. Her one friend complicates their relationship by becoming a possible love interest.Eventually, after several baseball games and several sessions with her guidance counselor, Taylor begins to gain the self-confidence she needs to straighten out her life. She realizes she has real talent as a pitcher, especially with her killer curveball. She begins to accept the friendship of other girls. She starts to enjoy a romance with her best friend. She even attempts to improve the dreadful relationship she has with her distant dad.Taylor’s story reflects the plight of every adolescent who’s struggled with self-worth and identity, with relational problems between parents and peers, and with finding a niche in an imperfect world. Though Taylor is no fairy-tale heroine, she gradually comes to know that no matter how many curves life throws at her, she’s quite capable of catching them and throwing them right back.Sara Griffiths, a native of New Jersey, is an eighth grade teacher of language arts in South Orange, NJ. As a teacher at the South Orange Middle School, she’s been active in developing a language arts curriculum and producing the school’s musical. A graduate of Rutgers College, where she majored in psychology, she obtained her teaching certificate in language arts from the College of Saint Elizabeth.Sara is also a certified NARHA (North American Riding for the Handicapped) therapeutic horse-back riding instructor and has seen the physical and mental benefits of involving children in sports.She is a member of the New Jersey Education Association, the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, and the National Council of Teachers of English. Thrown a Curve was her first published novel; its stand-alone sequel is Singled Out. She lives in Whitehouse Station, NJ with her husband, Jamie, and their son, Benjamin.

This is a series of bedtime stories told over the years to our grandchildren. Our regular major characters in the adventures are our pets: Moxie and Mollie – Long Haired Miniature Dachshunds, Rupert and Cooper – Pembroke Welch Corgis and Monet the white cat, who sometimes thinks she is a dog too… In these adventures, we introduce Rosie; Rupert’s Corgi girlfriend. The clash of the two cultures is evident as Rosie goes to the mid-west country to visit Rupert and he then heads out to visit Southern California cities and beaches.

This fabulous CD set contains The 39-Storey Treehouse and The 52-Storey Treehouse, by Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton, read by Stig Wemyss, Australia's most loved narrator of audio books for children and young adults. This collection features book three and book four in the laugh-out-loud and bestselling Treehouse series and has a running time of approximately 225 minutes.Andy and Terry’s awesome treehouse just keeps on growing! In The 39-Storey-Treehouse they've added a chocolate waterfall you can swim in, a baby-dinosaur-petting zoo, a not-very-merry merry-go-round, a boxing elephant called the Trunkinator, a top-secret thirty-ninth level and more!! And in The 52-Storey Treehouse they’ve added a wave machine, a life-size snakes and ladders game (with real ladders and real snakes!), and a high-tech detective agency with all the latest high-tech detective technology.Well, what are you waiting for? Come on up!

Justice Jones, super-smart super-sleuth, is back for her second spine-tingling adventure! For fans of Robin Stevens, Katherine Woodfine and Enid Blyton.When Justice returns for spring term at Highbury House, it's not long before murder is back on her mind. Assigned to look after the elderly Mr Arthur in Smugglers' Lodge on the other side of the marshes from school, Justice is initially dismayed. But dismay quickly gives way to intrigue as she finds herself drawn to Mr Arthur and his stories of piloting in the First World War - and especially when Dorothy, who lives nearby, tells her that the lodge is haunted.But when Mr Arthur dies in mysterious circumstances, Justice soon has a list of questions in her journal: why hasn't he been given a proper military funeral? Why does the new Matron not seem to know much about First Aid? And what secrets does Smugglers' Lodge really hold?Justice sets out to uncover the deadly truth in this brilliant follow-up to A Girl Called Justice.

This is a series of 7 bedtime stories told over the years to our grandson “Benny” as he is named in the stories. Other major characters in the adventures are our pets: Moxie and Mollie –Miniature Dachshunds, Rupert and Cooper – Pembroke Welch Corgis and Monet the cat, who sometimes thinks she is a dog too…These adventures always occur at night and take place at a small rural cottage in the Midwest. The Adventurers all sneak out through the dog door in the laundry room…..but Ssh…it’s a secret….don’t tell anyone, especially grownups...In these adventures, animals will communicate in human language (English to be exact) which has been carefully translated from the standard universal animal language. The Adventurers live in a small quaint cottage in a small holler beside a narrow road on the side of a hill….. It is a quiet restful place surrounded by woods. There are trails that wind their way through those woods and provide the setting for these adventures. Each story shares christian family values as learning lessons for our grandchildren.