Books with author Sara Gruen

What would breakfast be without cereal and milk? W.K. Kellogg changed the breakfast routine of millions of people with his invention of Corn Flakes. His company quickly grew into one of the largest food companies in America. Learn about the transformation and read up on some of the worlds favorite breakfast cereals in this title for inquiring minds.

"Fawnie Stops Pushing Things Off" is the first of the "Let's Speak About" series.How can we get Fawnie to stop procrastinating and to stop pushing off walking? Would a gaily-wrapped present get her going? How about a chart with star stickers? What if her brothers put her food and water a little farther away? No, Fawnie would still push off walking. She is happy to just lie on the forest floor.Until..., Fawnie hears about all the fun she missed at cousin deer's birthday party. Will grandma's advice help Fawnie learn to stop pushing things off?Children discover how to change pushing off behavior and how they can start doing the opposite, to motivate themselves. This book is insightful and entertaining. "Fawnie Stops Pushing Things Off" is a sure success with children.

Orphaned and penniless at the height of the Depression, Jacob Jankowski escapes everything he knows by jumping on a passing train—and inadvertently runs away with the circus. So begins Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen’s darkly beautiful tale about the characters who inhabit the less-than-greatest show on earth. Jacob finds a place tending the circus animals, including a seemingly untrainable elephant named Rosie. He also comes to know Marlena, the star of the equestrian act—and wife of August, a charismatic but cruel animal trainer. Caught between his love for Marlena and his need to belong in the crazy family of travelling performers, Jacob is freed only by a murderous secret that will bring the big top down. Water for Elephants is an enchanting page-turner, the kind of book that creates a world that engulfs you from the first page to the last. A national bestseller in Canada and a New York Times bestseller in the United States, this is a book destined to become a beloved fiction classic.