Books with author S. Jae-Jones

Literary Classics 2017 International Book Award Winner! Readers' Favorite 2016 International Book Award Finalist! CLC Seal of Approval - Recommended for home and school libraries.Life moves on -- no matter what... Following his father's puzzling disappearance and his mother's death, ten-year-old Samuel Baker goes through the motions of living in a world turned upside down. He wears an Apache talisman, a long ago gift from his father, in hopes its promise of strength and guidance is true. But what he truly wants is the power to bring back his parents. Heartless Aunt Janis is elated at the prospect of becoming Samuel's legal guardian. She is sure an orphan boy will elicit such an outpouring of public sympathy that her husband will win his Senate bid by a landslide. But when Grandpa Tate arrives, things don't go as expected, especially after black lightning strikes!

"Well behaved women rarely make history" Alex's teacher, Mrs. Muffin, says one day during class. "Hmm" Alex taps her finger on her chin as she thinks about this quote. The look of mischief in Alex's eyes makes her teacher uneasy. You see, Alex has a reputation. Alex has been known among the staff as the "ingenious prankster". Little does Mrs. Muffin know, Alex is about to put them all in a very, sticky, situation!

Jeanie Everett has been been jumping at the idea of leaving her sleepy childhood town for years and now that she’s eighteen, she decides she’s ready to go. She won’t leave without giving her town the proper farewell that she has planned to have. Anything she has ever wanted to say or do is being done, along with some teary goodbyes to her life that she's leaving behind. Her last 24 hours in Fanningmont, Virginia aren’t like her expectations, instead it teaches her more about living, loving, and losing than she learned. Battling fear of leaving all she’s ever known behind, she experiences more than she ever has in her eighteen years. Before Jeanie go, she’ got places to go, things to say to certain people. Jeanie is going to turn every “I wish” into an “I did”. She’s got a lot to do in these last hours.