Books with author Sam Smith

Callie has spent her life running away from foster homes and shoplifting to survive. After being warned that her next offence would mean being sent to juvenile detention, Callie is very worried when she gets arrested. Can Barry and Heather help her avoid being sent away or has she used up her very last chance?Maxwell House is a foster home with a difference. Barry and Heather have always enjoyed fostering and have a great success rate with turning kids lives around. When a benefactor leaves his large home to the department, they have the opportunity to expand the number of kids they're helping.

Not every kid was blessed with living in a loving home with their parents. That's why Barry and Heather had chosen to become foster parents. They'd both come across too many kids who needed a stable home life. Now they've been offered an opportunity to help more kids. Will they grab it with both hands or choose to stay with the comfortable life they already have?This is the first in the series "Maxwell House". Look out for more titles in the series coming soon.

Help your child review concepts learned in school with this comprehensive workbook! This comprehensive workbook helps your child review and reinforce concepts learned in school with minimal preparation and materials. Includes sections on: - Language arts - Math - Social Studies - Science - Critical thinking - And more! With over 600 pages of educational activities, this beneficial primer promises hours of learning fun for ages 5-7.

In a future where growing your own food is against the law, three young friends risk their safety by studying the illegal subject of gardening.The children's mentor, an elderly acquaintance named Ana, entices the children with her description of the food she knew as a child--food unlike the square, processed, packaged food they have always known.Constantly watching, however, is GRIM, the government agency that controls the nation's food and keeps in check all potential troublemakers.Will the children succeed in their quest to learn about gardening, and find a place of food freedom? And can they, only children, help change the world? Treasure is the 2013 YA Runner-up at the Green Book Festival. Lily, Heirloom, Keeper are available now.

Describes, in great detail, the tidal shifts in Michael Jordan's psyche; the role of Jordan's father in causing him to take up & then abandon baseball; Jordan's purchase of a handgun & increased use of bodyguards & handlers; & his sometimes supportive, frequently scathing treatment of teammates. Depicts the subtle motivations that drive owner Jerry Reinsdorf; Scottie Pippen's slow boil over the team's personnel decisions; coach Phil Jackson's behind-the-scenes lobbying on behalf of Jordan & season-long frustration; & the complexity of Jordan s ''supporting cast'' as the team began its 1996-1997 season.

It's definitely not what she had in mind for summer vacation. When her friends disappear under mysterious circumstances, thirteen-year-old Lily sets out to discover more about the secret organization with which they had become involved. Her investigation unearths a disturbing secret from her own past, unsettling her world even more. In the meantime, Lily makes a new friend and falls for a mysterious young man even as she remains unsure about whom she should trust. As her world crashes down around her, Lily struggles to decide what to do next. Lily is volume two of the Seed Savers series but can easily be read out of order. It is is a suspenseful and reflective book with themes of self-empowerment, trust, acceptance of diversity, gardening, and politics.

It's late in the twenty-first century and large corporations have merged with U.S. government agencies to control the nation's food supply. Not only is gardening and seed ownership illegal, but fresh food is unheard of by the masses who are fed the processed food groups of Vitees, Proteins, Carbos, Snacks, and Sweeties. Thirteen-year-old Clare and her brother Dante have escaped to Canada where the old ways still exist. There they make friends with the roguish Jason and learn the political history of their own country's decline of freedoms.Meanwhile, Lily, the friend who was left behind, begins her own journey to find the father she never met--a former leader in the ill-fated Seed Savers rebellion of fifteen years earlier. From Florida to the Smoky Mountains, Lily follows the signs in search of her father and is helped along the way by the quirky characters she meets. Not to mention the attractive Arturo who shows up midway to "protect" her.Heirloom seamlessly weaves the gentle agrarian story of Clare and Dante together with the swiftly-paced adventure of Lily and Arturo. Themes of family, empowerment, and politics meet in this futuristic tale nostalgic for the past. Heirloom is a hopeful dystopia in today's current sea of post-apocalyptic literature. Second Edition Published March 2014