Books with author Sr. Humphrey

In the Wonderful World of Redberry there is a lost penguin! Never before has a penguin been lost in Redberry. Three friends get together to solve the problem. Tom the triangle, Claire the square and Peter the pentagon work together to help the penguin find his way home. This is a fun adventure story for kids and a chance to learn a few shapes along the way. Find out if the residents of Redberry manage to help poor Penguin home!

Celebrate some of the oddities and strange happenings that have taken place alongside the more momentous events of space exploration.Find out how the Americans missed the chance to launch the first satellite,and how a Cuban Cow was the unsuspecting victim of a rocket mishap. Discover why the Russians presented the US coastguard with an Apollo capsule and where you could ride the scariest zip-wire in the world.Sometimes bizarre, often ridiculous and frequently surprising ‘To Boldly Go’ presents twenty tales of what can happen when people set out to go where no one has gone before.

So you want to be a writer? Congratulations!Writing can be a rewarding and fulfilling hobby or it can be a life-long career. But it can be hard to get started when you don't yet know what you don't know.For example, do you know when to show with your writing versus when to tell or omit? Do you know the five different types of point of view? Or the three tenses?What about choosing between trade publishing and self-publishing. Do you know the three must haves for any self-published novel? Or the eight questions you should ask any potential agent? Or the eleven things you should know before signing that first contract?This book answers those questions and much, much more. If you want to be a writer, but don't know where to start...Start here.

Artist and troublemaker Noah King finds his entire life is uprooted when his mother decides to move them out to middle-of-nowhere Springhill Valley. Resentful and missing his familiar world, Noah vows to give her every reason to send him home... until he meets Lysander.In a whirlwind summer, Noah learns that falling in love might be easy, but when his haunting past refuses to stay buried nothing is as simple as he wants it to be.

When Runt Shelby is released from prison, his second sentence, he knows what he did wrong the other times - going it alone. He will organize a gang, and nobody will send him back to prison. After stealing a horse, he rides into a small town and immediately befriends an orphan in his mid-teens, Luke Carter. And the gang is started.At the Double Bar W ranch, Ben is concerned about his grandfather's increasing forgetfulness and tells his sister, Charity. After driving a wagon into town to pick up supplies, Ben successfully assists a lady who is being accosted by two drunks. After finding out that the woman, Fiona Sullivan, will be his new teacher when school starts, he invites her out to the ranch. She and the kids' grandfather take an immediate liking to each other. Ben is thrilled. But Charity suspects something is wrong, and she will watch the woman. Unknown to Charity, her suspicions are correct. Miss Sullivan is a blackmailer and a murderess. And Andrew Wright will be her next victim.Runt Shelby adds more people to his gang. Patch Harris and a gunman known only as "Puma" join up with Runt. A bar maid, Big Sal Hudson, also joins. Only problem, Luke is having second thoughts about being an outlaw. But he knows Runt would kill him before letting him leave. Luke is eventually able to sneak away from the gang. He is replaced by a renegade Indian, "Sioux Nape."Ben has no prejudice toward Mexicans or Indians. When he finds a wounded Apache boy a couple of years older than him, Ben takes the boy, Gray Wolf, to a cabin on the ranch and begins to nurse him back to health. He brings the boy food every day, and the Apache begins teaching Ben words in the Apache language. Gray Wolf wants to go to Canada, where he can live in peace. But Ben wants him to remain on the ranch until spring. Gray Wolf agrees.Ben's first encounter with Shelby's gang is partially successful for him. When he comes upon a stagecoach being held up, he runs them off with accurate rifle fire, but not before they abscond with the contents of the strong box. After pulling a few more jobs, the Shelby gang attacks Little Black Water, taking some kids and their teachers hostage. Charity was helping out, and she is one of the hostages. When Ben finds out that the gang will be leaving the town with seven hostages - one of them Charity - he and his best friend, Kwahu (a full-blooded Hopi boy two years older than Ben), set an ambush. But can two boys, one thirteen and the other fifteen, defeat five outlaws who just as soon kill the boys as look at them?

What happens when you’re far too inquisitive for your own good? When you talk to strangers and follow your instinct? You arrive in an unfamiliar world where sorcery has control of the weather and whose unusual inhabitants do all they can to survive.Luckily Emily and her trusted friend are quick witted and determined. But can they avoid the sorceress’s traps and restore natural order before it’s too late?Anschuan is a world not restricted by ordinary time and space. It has become dominated by Toraina, an evil sorceress who has seized control of the country’s weather. Emily embarks on a journey to restore the rightful Queen Aurora but her quest is full of dangers. Assisted by friends new and old - a mysterious Boatman, a family of wolves, and a blind ranger with a bottomless backpack, she learns and develops from each new experience and adventure.Toraina’s use of the weather to intimidate and cause physical harm, the guidance of a trio of very familiar sentinels, and her beloved Sammy, are the only things which remain constant throughout.But the boundaries between the two worlds aren't always quite as clear as they first appear.

AAAAHHH....HELP! HELP! SOMETHING’SGOT ME!” screamed Flop. Horrified, Diz watchedas the ground swallowed his best friend, replacinghim with a cloud of dust. He could hear him but hecouldn’t see him! The others heard Flop screamingand dashed to the edge of the slope to see what hadhappened. Logan almost slid down the slope just asFlop had but Jackson grabbed him in time, pullinghim back…Hang on as you experience thisroller coaster ride for dear life! This sometimes-brave group of seven friends dodges death at every turn while learning about true friendship, courage, truth, and hope...as in the hope of getting out alive!

The Chocolate League is back and now the kids from Detroit are engaging in a fun game of Truth or Dare. The dare starts with a very stinky mess and grows out of control. Everyone gets involved and the dares never stop. Parents grab your kids and kids grab your parents to engage in this very funny tale of a group of kids who have non-stop fun in their Detroit neighborhood.

Theodore Andrew McCall has spent his entire life (twelve years, to be exact) moving from place to place. When he starts his 8th grade year at Fulbright School for Boys, Theodore begins to think that things may finally be looking up. But when an unexpected phenomenon occurs, Theodore happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, becoming witness to some very classified, top-secret information. He quickly finds himself face-to-face with the SCAB Division, a secret division of the FBI that is solely dedicated to keeping the real life existence of cartoons under wraps. Given an ultimatum, Theodore reluctantly embarks on a new mission that, if failed, could jeopardize the entire world as he knows it.