Books with author Patrick C. Murphy

Make magic with everyone’s favorite Disney princesses!Creative young princes and princesses-in-training learn how to make their own soaps featuring Ariel, Cinderella, Belle, Tiana, and more. Make Your Own Disney Princess Soaps has twelve original recipes perfect for family-friendly fun. This kit includes melt-and-pour soap base, soap dyes, character mold trays, and even glitter add-ins! With full-color photographs, clear step-by-step instructions, and fun sudsy facts, this kit has everything you need to bring these enchanting princesses to life.Kit includes:32-page book200g white glycerin soap base45g glycerin soap pigment1g Shimmer powder1 tray with 6 character moldsYou’ll have fun creating these beautiful, magical Disney Princess Soaps.

Every kid knows about T. rex and Brontosaurus. But what about Oryctodromeus? Concavenator? When it comes to dinosaurs, some of the best are also some of the least-known. Dinosaurs A-Z: Dinosaur Oddities is a book dedicated to the strangest and most spectacular dinosaurs you've never heard of. Written for elementary school children of higher reading levels, this books contains dozens of colorful, rigorously-researched illustrations meant to bring these amazing animals to life right before your eyes. You'll never look at dinosaurs the same way again!

The bestselling DK Readers series has a fresh new look featuring redesigned jackets and interiors, and up-to-date vocabulary throughout. In DK Readers, stunning photographs combine with lively illustrations and engaging age-appropriate stories, creating a multilevel reading program guaranteed to capture children's interest while developing their reading skills and general knowledge. Written by leading children's authors and compiled in consultation with literacy experts, these captivating books build reader confidence along with a lifelong appreciation for nonfiction, classic stories, and biographies. There is a DK Reader to interest every child at every level, from preschool to grade four. With DK Readers, children learn to read — then read to learn!

Cam Caper is trapped in the Cretaceous period, hiding from time traveling scientists and surrounded by Neanderthals and dinosaurs from across the geologic spectrum. He isn't trying to save the world, he just wants to protect his friends and get everyone back to their own time. Along the way he leaps from 65 million years in the past to an unknown future, and uncovers a plot that could shorten or end the lives of his friends and family. Saying goodbye might be the only way to save everyone.

Eight-year-old Cam Caper thinks he has hit the lottery when he discovers dinosaurs in the field behind his house. It doesn't bother him that the prehistoric animals don't look like the illustrations in his science book. His bright blue ankylosaurus is the best pet a boy could ask for. But when a zombie virus starts changing the peaceful dinosaurs into killing machines, Cam and his friends work with a local scientist to find a cure. To save the creatures they take to the air, travel in time, and face their biggest fears. Funny, touching and suspenseful, Attack of the Dinosaur Zombies shows that friends can come in any shape, and that sometimes you have to risk everything to save the one you love.

Cam Caper is trapped in the Cretaceous period, hiding from time traveling scientists and surrounded by Neanderthals and dinosaurs from across the geologic spectrum. He isn't trying to save the world, he just wants to protect his friends and get everyone back to their own time. Along the way he leaps from 65 million years in the past to an unknown future, and uncovers a plot that could shorten or end the lives of his friends and family. Saying goodbye might be the only way to save everyone.

Easter 1916. The Great War rages in Europe with two hundred thousand Irishmen fighting in the British Army. But a small group of Irish nationalists refuse to fight for Britain and strike a blow for Irish freedom. Caught up in the action in Dublin, is twelve-year-old Molly O’Donovan.Her own family is plunged into danger on both sides of the conflict. Her father, a technical officer with the Post Office dodges the crossfire as he tries to restore the telegraph lines while her wayward brother runs messages for the rebels. Molly a trained First Aider, risks her own safety to help the wounded on both sides.As violence and looting erupts in the streets of Dublin alongside heroism and high ideals, Molly records it all. The Proclamation at the GPO, the battle of Mount Street, the arrival of the British Troops. But will Molly’s own family survive and will she be able to save her brother?This is her diary.

Something is infecting the robots of Shelter’s secret laboratory. Normally peaceful and helpful, they have begun turning into machines that hunt and destroy. Cam Caper and his friends, Fil Locke and Tosha Santos, add werewolf robots to the growing list of mysteries they’re determined to solve about their hometown. They keep their list in a notebook in their clubhouse. When a message from a scientist from the future appears in that notebook Cam begins to question everything he thinks he knows about Shelter, his friends, and even himself.

Something is infecting the robots of Shelter’s secret laboratory. Normally peaceful and helpful, they have begun turning into machines that hunt and destroy. Cam Caper and his friends, Fil Locke and Tosha Santos, add werewolf robots to the growing list of mysteries they’re determined to solve about their hometown. They keep their list in a notebook in their clubhouse. When a message from a scientist from the future appears in that notebook Cam begins to question everything he thinks he knows about Shelter, his friends, and even himself.

Saddle up for an adventure with two sisters as they revitalize their school's horseback riding club while also helping out at their family's bakery in DK Adventures: Horse Club. Emma adores horses as much as she idolizes her older sister, Amanda. She dreams about riding a cinnamon-colored horse in a show alongside her one day. Emma's wish looks like it's about to come true — but it's not such a smooth ride. Join Emma and Amanda at Paddock Promises' camp and learn how to handle, groom, tack up and ride a horse, meet horses from myths and legends, plus get a recipe to bake sweet pony cupcakes in DK Adventures: Horse Club. DK Adventures are an innovative mix of narrative and nonfiction for kids ages 8-11 featuring engaging, action-packed stories that help kids build their skills in vocabulary, grammar, comprehension, and critical thinking while developing a love of reading. With diaries, recipes, poetry, instructions, graphics, or songs, the genre spreads in each DK Adventures title enhance the story and reinforce curriculum learning, while the expansive range of entertaining nonfiction subjects will appeal to boys and girls everywhere. Supports the Common Core State Standards.

It?s 1972. Twelve-year-old Joan is sure that she is going to be miserable when her family moves. Then she meets a most unusual girl. Sarah prefers to be called ?Fox,? and lives with her author dad in a rundown house in the middle of the woods. The two girls start writing their own stories together, and when one wins first place in a student contest, they find themselves recruited for a summer writing class taught by the equally unusual Verla Volante. The Wild Girls brilliantly explores friendship, the power of story, and how coming of age means finding your own answers.