Books with author SCOTT/ BROOM

Welcome to the Village of Woodley Bend. This is the home to one very curious cat named Breadsticks and one very clever fox named Bow-Bow. Breadsticks and Bow-Bow are the best of friends! Follow their adventures in this adorable Early Reader Series set in the English countryside. This time Breadsticks and Bow-Bow want to camp out under the stars in their new den made of twigs. There is just one problem...they have run out of twigs! Breadsticks and Bow-Bow's search for more twigs gets interrupted by a mysterious tappity-tap-tap sound coming from the woods! Your early reader will not stop reading until Breadsticks and Bow-Bow solve the mystery of the tappity-tap-tap sound and find more twigs for their den!

The extraordinary personal journey of a man who, against all odds, rose to become one of America’s most surprising and promising new political figures Scott Brown's greatest win did not occur on a cold January election night in 2010 when he came from behind to capture the U.S. Senate seat held by Ted Kennedy for nearly fifty years. It began when he survived a savage beating at the drunken, dirty-fingernail hands of a stepfather when he was barely six years old, while trying to protect his mother. In this gripping memoir of resilience and redemption, Brown tells the story of his difficult, often nomadic childhood, shunted from house to apartment, and town to town, seventeen times over his first eighteen years. He somehow thrived despite a largely absent father, who married four separate times. So did his mother, in relationships frequently stained with alcohol, anger, and even violence. For nearly two decades' growing up, Brown endured innumerable hardships and challenges, even stealing food to eat. He was periodically sent off to live with relatives, his possessions wrapped in a few old blankets. Saved by basketball, he was the boy who shoveled snow from the public courts to shoot hoops alone in the frozen cold. With clear-eyed conviction and unflinching can-dor, Brown tells the story of his own bad-boy days, of the coaches who mentored him, and of how he found a way out of familial chaos through the swish of a ball in the net, winning a starting slot on the Tufts varsity basketball team as a freshman player and becoming the tenth-highest scorer to graduate in the school's history. His rise from there was even more improbable: a first-year law student and member of the Massachusetts National Guard, he was picked as Cosmopolitan magazine's "America's Sexiest Man" and was vaulted into the glamorous world of New York modeling at the height of the 1980s. But the man who was once ushered into the backrooms of Studio 54 returned to Massachusetts to continue with his military and legal training, settle down, raise a family, and soon found an unlikely path that would lead him to national political stardom. Here, too, are the secrets from the unprecedented Senate race that captured the country's imagination and how Scott Brown won his remarkable victory. Poignant, heartfelt, humorous, and profound, this is the story of one man's dream and his determination to fight for a better future.

Millie and Cogs (aka the Blueberry Detective Team) are headed to the library to return a book. However, the Seaside Library is closed because they had a break-in last night! Eight library books were taken and the library was left a mess! But no need to worry. The Blueberry Detective Team is on the case. Help them discover the clues that lead them to the book thief. Not only do they find the missing books, they help clean up the mess in the library and learn some nifty science facts about...shhhh...the thief! The Millie Blueberry Mystery books are a contagious series for emergent readers that combines teamwork, mystery and science.

Against All Odds is the extraordinary personal story of the man who rose up to meet the challenge of terrific opposition and become one of America's most promising new political figures—Senator Scott Brown. Brown is famous for succeeding popular Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy after Kennedy’s death in 2010—but, as he reveals in a compelling memoir reminiscent of Sarah Palin’s Going Rogue and Clarence Thomas’s My Grandfather’s Son, his experiences with struggle and achievement go back a lifetime.