Books with author Roger Thomas

An interactive adventure for children. You take part in writing a letter to Santa because you feel he has never been given a present for himself. As the story progresses you have to try to work out exactly what Santa has asked for from a list of fourteen items! The story will have you laughing right through to the final page where there is an illustration of the gift. Can you guess what it is? Buy the book and have lots of laughs and fun!

Spanish Middle/High School, Level 3 Homework Booklet continues to expand the Spanish language. This level 3 book expands the Spanish vocabulary with the weather and the seasons, while also introducing irregular verbs, possessive adjectives, and more! Students’ understanding of the Spanish language will grow quickly as they enjoy completing these fun activities. Features: • A pull-put answer key in the center of the book to make checking answers quick and easy. • This book is intended to be completed by the student with little or no help from a parent or teacher, which makes it a great resource for use at home or school. Our extremely popular Homework Booklet series is a must have for any student! Great for reinforcing, reviewing, or teaching specific skills these booklets feature step-by-step practice drills with easy-to-understand directions and highlighted examples. With over 85 titles for children in preschool to high school and covering all key subjects including math, reading, social studies, grammar, foreign language, and more, students will find the extra practice they need to succeed in all subjects! Help your student today and collect all the titles in this amazing series!

For Steve York, life was good. He had a 4.0 GPA, friends he could trust, and a girl he loved. Now he spends his days smoked out, not so much living as simply existing. But his herbal endeavors -- and personal demons -- have lead to a severe lack of motivation. Steve's flunking out, but if he writes a one-hundred-page paper, he can graduate. Steve realizes he must write what he knows. And through telling the story of how he got to where he is, he discovers exactly where he wants to be....

Steve details his descent from bright star to burnout in this newly repackaged edition of the definitive, highly acclaimed novel from the creator of Veronica Mars and Party Down.Houston, sophomore year: Steve is on top of the world. He and his friends are the talk of the school. He’s in love with a terrific girl. He can even deal with “the astronaut”—a world-famous hero who happens to be his father. San Diego, senior year: Steve is bummed out, drugged out, flunking out. A no-nonsense counselor says he can graduate if he writes a 100-page paper. So Steve starts writing, and as the paper becomes more and more personal, he reveals how a National Merit Scholar has become an under-achieving stoner. And in telling how he got to where he is, Steve discovers how to get to where he wants to be.

Spanish Elementary, Level 1 Homework Booklet is a wonderful way to teach or review basic Spanish vocabulary. The many illustrations give clues to the meanings of the Spanish words. This level 1 book begins by introducing students to the Spanish alphabet, numbers, colors, and the calendar. Students’ Spanish vocabulary will grow quickly as they enjoy completing these fun activities. Features: • A pull-put answer key in the center of the book to make checking answers quick and easy. • This book is intended to be completed by the student with little or no help from a parent or teacher, which makes it a great resource for use at home or school. Our extremely popular Homework Booklet series is a must have for any student! Great for reinforcing, reviewing, or teaching specific skills these booklets feature step-by-step practice drills with easy-to-understand directions and highlighted examples. With over 85 titles for children in preschool to high school and covering all key subjects including math, reading, social studies, grammar, foreign language, and more, students will find the extra practice they need to succeed in all subjects! Help your student today and collect all the titles in this amazing series!

Rob Thomas, creator of Veronica Mars and author of Rats Saw God, delivers a poignant tale of a young man caught in the crossroads of growing up with nowhere to go but forward.Determined to pursue his dreams of becoming a reporter, Patrick Sheridan leaves his deeply religious family behind in his small Texas town for a job on a teen news show in Los Angeles. Before he knows it, he’s mingling with the rich and famous, lying to his parents, and cheating on his girlfriend, who’s waiting for him back home. While on assignment across the pond in Ireland, he learns that it was his pretty face—not his talent—that landed him the job in the first place. Devastated and at a loss of what to do, Patrick runs. He knows it’s up to him to pick up the shattered pieces of his life, but what do you do when everything you thought you knew turns out to be wrong?