Books with author Sadie Anderson

In the tradition of Harry Potter and Eragon. LAKEN is a mistreated orphan who lives in a basement with his sister, SUMMER. They lead a poor and dingy life—save for an invisible ring that was placed on his finger at birth. Laken can feel the ring’s power, but its origin and purpose are unknown to him. On his thirteenth birthday, he is sucked into a magical world of elves, minotaurs, and giants. All of them can see Laken’s now-not-so-invisible ring and, because of it, they chase after him. In the nick of time, an angel named GABRIEL swoops down to save him from the pack of monsters. Gabriel is the headmaster of the Dogma School for Magic and Flight. After the rescue, he reveals to Laken the secret of the boy’s life. Every seventy-five years, a human is given the magic ring and declared to be the Chosen One—the result of a sacred oath made thousands of years ago between angel and man. Angels, who were created to aid humans, do not have the ability to ever harm a human. This makes the Chosen One a very powerful being in the Angelic world. LORD BRONE, the previous Chosen One, used his supremacy for evil. He and his gang of fallen angels had nearly taken over the Angelic world until the ring was passed to Laken, thus banishing Lord Brone back to the world of humans. Laken learns that it was Lord Brone who killed Laken’s mother in an attempt to steal the ring when the boy was just an infant. With this new and terrifying knowledge, Laken accompanies Gabriel to Eden, where he enrolls in the Dogma School of Magic and Flight, and begins his journey to fully embrace his calling as the Chosen One. At school, Laken befriends an assortment of oddballs and quirky companions, including HEATH and PEYTON, shape-shifting brothers; BAYLOR, an eight-foot tall giant boy; and CIRQUE, a handsome young lady’s man. Each boy can interact with their own “conscience,” called a numa. Laken’s numa is named DAVE—a sarcastic, funny fellow who doesn’t always agree with Laken (or Gabriel!) Laken soon learns that he has a distinct advantage in Eden. Though others can’t, Laken can hear the numas of friends and enemies alike! Laken soon settles into his new routine. At Dogma, the students are instructed in magic, trained how to battle, given wings, and taught to fly. The boys soon discover, however, that someone at the school is plotting to kill Laken. To add to the intrigue, Laken disappears every night, waking up each morning in different locations around campus…. When he disappears, Laken leaves Dogma to enter a middle-world in which he can visit his sister, Summer. Anytime Summer is in trouble or needs help, Laken is sucked from the angelic world to come to her aid. Everyone is surprised to learn that Laken has become Summer’s guardian angel. Lord Brone catches wind of this, and uses Laken’s ability to his own evil advantage, capturing Summer to lead Laken out of the angelic realm. Lord Brone threatens to kill Summer unless Laken returns to the ordinary world. An epic battle commences in which Laken is struck a nearly fatal wound. In a magnificent twist, Laken is saved by Summer, who leads him through a portal and back into the angelic world. It is then revealed that Summer also possesses strong magical abilities. But there is no time to celebrate. Lord Brone manages to follow the siblings through the portal— and his plans for revenge are greater than ever…

Pandora Katsaros, a sophomore in high school, is struggling to adjust to her new life and home after her parents’ unexpected death in a plane crash. She knows that she must learn to accept her foster parents, let go of the past, and embrace the future, however difficult and hopeless it may seem. Unbeknownst to her, Pandora’s Greek ancestry is about to take her on a dangerous and amazing journey of self-discovering, love, and hope that will forever change her life and the lives of those around her.

Way back in the bayou country lies Crawdad County. The Spanish moss on the live oaks hangs so thick that unless you look especially closely, you might not notice rickety Alligator Acres, huddled cozily upon the water s edge. Its country just teeming with folks, a friendly kind of place Cecil, the alligator, calls home. Back beyond live Cecil's neighbors, including little Woo, the armadillo, and a zebra named Eloise. Just how a zebra came to be there is a story for another time. The wind does not often blow through the steamy bayou but when it does, a story is sure to follow. The wind is blowing tonight, there's a distant fiddle singing, and the story we are here to tell is about the Crawdad County dance of Eloise, who didn't quite fit in, and of Cecil and Woo, who made sure that she did.

This oversized board book traces a city across the span of a night -- filled with the people, traffic, parks, streets, stores, and buildings that make up the town. The breadth of the urban experience may all be found here: from the bicyclist lazily gliding through the park to the raucous swooshhhhh of traffic; from the clanging crash of construction work to the quiet of a sweeping streetscape as seen from a high-floor apartment building. Vibrant colors that zing with the heat rising from a steaming sidewalk are perfectly matched to a syncopated, sound-filled, chant-again-and-again text. Ingeniously die-cut pages reinforce the experience of the city skyline in a stylish book that represents a tour-de-force performance by Sara Anderson.

Start at the tips of the foamy waves, where the sun glints off the water, and go down to the depths of the sea, where the eel's phosphorescence glows in the dark with otherworldly intensity. Below the waves, there are to be seen, among a myriad of living creatures, the octopus, the snail, and the angelfish. Deeper still are the whales, the lobsters, and the sticklebacks. Resting on the floor are barnacles, pompanos, and eels. Returning to the surface, there are still more magnificently depicted examples of sea life—until the sunny beach and golden sand beckon. A journey through the ocean is imaginatively plumbed in words and pictures. Informative, clear, and graphically lovely, readers of all ages who dive into this book will never look at the sea in quite the same way.

Nine-year-old Sandy was quite comfortable living in the town of Prescott. She went to a school with rows of clean children in tidy desks. All the serenity and order was soon to end, for they were moving again! Into a canyon, at the edge of civilization.Hillside Castle tells the true story of a family’s brief time living in a remote mining camp in central Arizona. The times were lean…and primitive…and interesting!

It is not true that toddlers don't like vegetables at least, it won't be true after leafing through this delectable board book. Faster than the pages are turned, youngsters will gobble their celery and carrots! In her uniquely graphic drawings, Sara Anderson conveys through her brilliant use of color the ripeness of a tomato, the elegance of an eggplant. Exactly matching the kinds vegetables to be found in the kitchen and on the table, this book will inspire young children to count, classify, identify, add to their vocabularies, and enlarge their repertoires of favorite foods.