Books with author Shane L Johnson

Nefertiti was the most beautiful girl in all the land. So beautiful in fact that she was held prisoner by the Great Lake itself. With her people in peril, she has to make a great sacrifice. This book celebrates young girls ages 2-10 while teaching them a joyful and self-respecting representation of “beautiful”. This book was created out of the need to redefine the black princess and black fairy-tales as a whole.It seems like a simple idea, but love and respect for all girls of color, honoring their regality and admiring the beauty within each and every one of them creates the loving effects of positive reinforcement for girls about the acceptance of who they are. Moreover, it has a profound and unquestionable influence not only on themselves, but on those who are in their lives. Let’s champion our young ladies and mold them into the beautiful princesses they are all meant to be.

From and Amazon #1 Best-selling author of "The Book of Barkley - Love and Life through the Eyes of a Labrador Retriever, "Small Town Roads", and "True Course - Lessons From a Life Aloft - another Amazon #1 Best Seller - a story of family, redemption, and hope. It started with a piece of paper--a birth certificate, sent to the author's parents long after her birth. There is much history in that piece of paper. For she was born to an unwed mother in the generation prior to Roe v. Wade, on a warm day in August-a small, painful beginning in which she had been an unwilling participant, yet one that would shape her destiny. She is adopted into a loving home with another child that would become her beloved brother. She finds herself pregnant; she's a teen and a college student, abandoned at the news. The options are obvious, but there is only one decision she could make: to give her child up to a family praying for one, and walking away. Saving Grace is more than a story of adoption. It's a deep look into family-at hope and faith and why we end our days surrounded by souls that may not bear our name or share our blood, but who are our true family.

A rotten donut turns the Rabbids into terrifying zombies in this hilarious Level 3 Ready-to-Read based on a popular episode!When one of the Rabbids eats a rotten donut, he gets very ill and turns completely green! He tries to warn the other Rabbids not to eat the donuts, but they think he’s a zombie…and of course they eat the donuts, anyway! Soon there’s an army of zombie Rabbids roaming the streets. Can they be stopped? Rabbids TM & © 2016 Ubisoft Entertainment

The eight short stories in this collection look at the ties that bind and the transformations they provoke. Whether bound by love, blood, or violent circumstance, the characters in these tales are fundamentally altered by those closest to them ... and not always for the better.Two mothers become entwined in revenge against a violent man, with unexpected consequences. A roving gang of sirens finds themselves challenged from without and within. In a last, desperate act of love, a young surgeon goes under the knife. And in a distant territory, a mother and daughter struggle to survive--but the aid they summon is far more dangerous.At turns brutal and tender, subtle and shocking, these stories blend realism, fantasy, and horror to create an unsettling--and unforgettable--experience.

Everything is on the line as Agent Glyker tries to save the city from the Rabbids in the fifth book of this hilarious illustrated chapter book series!Agent Glyker of the SGAII-RD (Secret Government Agency for the Investigation of Intruders-Rabbids Division) is finally getting a chance to prove himself. Director Stern is going on vacation and leaving him in charge! Not only will Glyker get to pretend he’s really, really important, but he will also have full access to the Closet of Super Secret Spy Gadgets. It’s a dream come true…Or is it? When the Rabbids follow Glyker back to the office, they end up raiding the gadget closet, and steal all the best gadgets—including some that are so highly experimental, the secret agents aren’t even allowed to use them yet. With top-secret gadgets in the hands of the Rabbids, there’s practically no end to the mayhem they can cause!Can Glyker save the city from disaster? Can he even save his job? It’s a race against the clock as Glyker scrambles to clean up his mess before Director Stern returns!Rabbids TM & © 2015 Ubisoft Entertainment

The Rabbids are going global—and Agent Glyker is on their trail—in the sixth book of this hilarious illustrated chapter book series!Agent Glyker has been trying to catch a Rabbid ever since he joined the SGAII-RD (Secret Government Agency for the Investigation of Intruders—Rabbid Division), but his last encounter with the Rabbids has left him in deep trouble—and on administrative leave. With his entire career hanging in the balance, Glyker knows the only way to save his job would be to finally catch a Rabbid…no matter what it takes. When a popular reality show, The Astonishing Trek, comes to town and the Rabbids are drawn out of hiding, Glyker thinks he’s hit the jackpot! But if he wants to follow the Rabbids, who are following the contestants of the show, he’ll have to travel all over the world. Can Glyker finally succeed at catching the Rabbids? Can he even afford the plane ticket? Rabbids TM & © 2015 Ubisoft Entertainment

From the author of The Tenth Gift comes another story of exotic, foreign lands, entwining storylines spanning generations, and the quests to overcome love lost."My dear Isabelle, in the attic you will find a box with your name on it."Isabelle's estranged archeologist father dies, leaving her a puzzle. In a box she finds some papers and a mysterious African amulet — but their connection to her remains unclear until she embarks on a trip to Morocco to discover how the amulet came into her father's possession. When the amulet is damaged and Isabelle almost killed in an accident, she fears her curiosity has got the better of her. But Taib, her rescuer, knows the dunes and their peoples, and offers to help uncover the amulet's extraordinary history, involving Tin Hinan — She of the Tents — who made a legendary crossing of the desert, and her beautiful descendant Mariata.Across years and over hot, shifting sands, tracking the Salt Road, the stories of Isabelle and Taib, Mariata and her lover, become entangled with that of the lost amulet. It is a tale of souls wounded by history and of love blossoming on barren ground.