Books with author Paul Brett Johnson

As a freshman on the Gervin High basketball team, Castro's biggest rivalries come in the form of his upperclassman teammates. He and his best buddy, Sapp, devise a plan to break up the Starting Five by forcing Yusef, coach's son and star guard, to transfer to Archibald High freeing up a playing time window for Cash to slide in. Spoiler alert- Yusef comes back to The Igloo to torch his old team for FIFTY POINTS!***Gervin High school is the heart and soul of the Township of Gervin community. Everyone loves the blue-tiful landscaping, our icey wood floors in The Igloo and most importantly our school’s basketball history. The generations that have walked these Gervin halls have created one of the strongest alumni associations in the whole city. With all that being said, it sucks for us because WE’RE FROM BRACKETVILLE! Although crossing town lines won’t exactly cause a World War, let’s just say the shade can get shadier than Shady McShadington herself. Attending Gervin High was basically my idea. I had to do some convincing but ultimately I got Castro to buy in. See, Montrose AKA Munny AKA Bracketville’s Second Coming AKA King of the Honeydome AKA former-Swordsman-turned-Master Baller, has the starting guard spot over at Bracketville High all sewn up. I figured going there would only bury us at the end of the bench and the chances of us seeing playing time before sophomore year are slim to none provided we even make the team! Btdubbs, I say “we” but I really mean Castro—I don’t actually play basketball, I think it. Innovation and I have been friends since I was old enough to create my own apple sauce flavored pacifier at just six months old. ’Til this day, I do love a good Granny Smith.Castro, comes from a long line of ball players: Uncle Ice, our spiritual fruit and natural spices guide averaged over 40 points per game back in the day. Cash’s mom Cherry, still holds the all-time assists record at B-High with 16 per. I’m pretty sure she poured in close to 4 steals per game every game since her freshman year. Now that I think of it, that’s a lot of theft coming from a police officer. CK, Castro’s older sister and my idol, is my favoritest person in the whole wide world. She is the starting center for Bracketville State U., so you can imagine the pressure my main man feels even hooping in the first place. Her 39 points, plus her buddies Sizz’s 11 dimes and Amaru’s 17 rebounds per game, has led B-State to the number one slot in Bracketville’s City’s College Power Rank. Infiltrating the Gervin High Basketball system isn’t going to be difficult. It’s going to be quite simple actually. We’re going to march into the school, kick down Coach Abdullah’s doors, make the team, out-shine the seniors and get Castro the 31 minutes per game that he deserves. This is our time. This is our chance. This is our moment. Easy as pie… right?PS- I’m pretty good in Math and STEM, so if you need help with homework, feel free to email me at Sapp@BracketvilleBooks.com. With Castro’s playing time hanging in the balance, I’ll try my best to get back to you as fast as a gazelle on a carousel! Oh, and be sure to go online and grab a free poster.

First published in 1976, Paul Johnson's exceptional study of Christianity has been loved and widely hailed for its intensive research, writing, and magnitude. In a highly readable companion to books on faith and history, the scholar and author Johnson has illuminated the Christian world and its fascinating history in a way that no other has. Johnson takes off in the year 49 with his namesake the apostle Paul. Thus beginning an ambitious quest to paint the centuries since the founding of a little-known 'Jesus Sect', A History of Christianity explores to a great degree the evolution of the Western world. With an unbiased and overall optimistic tone, Johnson traces the fantastic scope of the consequent sects of Christianity and the people who followed them. Information drawn from extensive and varied sources from around the world makes this history as credible as it is reliable. Invaluable understanding of the framework of modern Christianity - and its trials and tribulations throughout history - has never before been contained in such a captivating work.

This is a book on practical book-making ideas for children in the primary school, with activities that cover a range of text types from a sequential narrative to advertising copy. There are step-by-step instructions and diagrams for each project, along with photographs of the the finished books which children have made. The aim is to give children the opportunity to explore how books work and to narrow the gap between their reading and writing. In making the books, children will gain practice both in tailoring their writing for a range of different audiences and in communicating visually through illustrations and design.

THE COW WHO WOULDN'T COME DOWN received two starred reviews (PW and SLJ) and was selected as an SLJ Best Book of the Year, a Bulletin Blue Ribbon winner, and received other impressive distinctions.Miss Rosemary knows that her cow, Gertrude, has a mind of her own. But when Gertrude takes up a new hobby, Miss Rosemary is faced with a problem: how do you milk a flying cow? First Miss Rosemary tries to lure Gertrude down with a fresh bale of alfalfa, then she tries to catch the cow with a fishing rod, next she tries to rope Gertrude with a lasso. Nothing works until Miss Rosemary has a brilliant idea. She makes a new cow, -Matilda, out of fabric and stuffing. When Gertrude sees she has been replaced, she decides to return to earth. Once there she finds a new hobby--driving the tractor.

In this enlightening and entertaining work, Paul Johnson continues his engaging history series. As he has done in previous books, he approaches the subject of heroism by example. Here are men and women from every age, walk of life, and corner of the world who have inspired and transformed their cultures and the world itself.Heroes includes: Samson, Judith, and Deborah; Alexander and Caesar; Henry V and Joan of Arc; Thomas More, Lady Jane Grey, and Mary Queen of Scots; Elizabeth I and Walter Raleigh; George Washington, the Duke of Wellington, and Lord Nelson; Emily Dickinson; Abraham Lincoln and Robert E. Lee; Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle; Mae West and Marilyn Monroe; Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, and Pope John Paul II.