Books with author Rachel Baker

An explosion releases a deadly spore that kills every tree on the planet. The printed word fades into obscurity before finally disappearing from all memory. Centuries later, an order of mythological women emerge from their self-imposed hiding into a world where metaphor is dead. In a future where sunlight is measured, sidewalks charge user fees and you can be torn apart by virtual bears, the heroine, Kenda, is an everyman caught up in a future that has no past. Due to a faulty grid on the console embedded in her head, she is able to resist the lure of screens. Will it be enough to help her chart humanity’s new course?

Badass heroine Devi Morris returns for another action-packed space adventure in the thrilling conclusion to Rachel Bach's Paradox trilogy.From the moment she took a job on Captain Caldswell's doomed ship, Devi Morris's life has been one disaster after another: government conspiracies, two alien races out for her blood, an incurable virus that's eating her alive.Now, with the captain missing and everyone-even her own government-determined to hunt her down, things are going from bad to impossible. The sensible plan would be to hide and wait for things to blow over, but Devi's never been one to shy from a fight, and she's getting mighty sick of running. It's time to put this crisis on her terms and do what she knows is right. But with all human life hanging on her actions, the price of taking a stand might be more than she can pay.

A children's book about the TRUE adventures of Nut, a chipmunk that was rescued from the wild and brought up in captivity. Nut was then released back into the wild and now comes to visit his rescuers everyday in their backyard. The message is to value all life, even the smallest of lives. Nut was found abandoned in our backyard. His eyes were closed and ears still pressed down. He was so tiny and helpless. I had to help! I took him in, got him warm and started to feed him a bottle. Soon his eyes opened, he was growing and thriving. We eventually put him in a cage, where he could run around and play. We would take him out and he would run all over us. He loved to sleep in my hair! We knew the day was coming where he had to be released back into the wild. It was a hard decision but I knew it had to be done. So we let him go but he came back that night! So every morning we would open the cage and he would run out and hagout in our yard all day but come back to his cage to sleep at night. One day he stayed out all night long, then the next night and the next. Until finally he just lived outside all the time. But he would come and see us every morning. He loved all kinds of nuts like almonds and walnuts. All summer and fall he came to see us everyday but we knew winter was coming. He eventually went into hibernation. We didnt see him for 4 months! Then one spring day he was back! He survived the long and cold winter. So continues the adventures of Nut!

A perfectly age-appropriate introduction to reading informational text, the Let's Race series brings the excitement of vehicles and racing to kids just learning to read. Up-close action photographs, carefully leveled text, and controlled vocabulary provide reading practice about "real stuff" for emergent readers. A photo-illustrated book for beginning readers that tells the story of a hot-air balloon rally. Who will drop the marker the closest? Includes a photo diagram.