Books with author Stephanie J. Morris

Get ready for a brain-building STEM adventure! Give kids the academic advantage with STEM Quest for Minecrafters: Grades 3–4. This problem-solving workbook challenges young minecrafters to apply their natural creativity and reasoning skills to real-world situations. Science, technology, engineering, and math come to life on the pages of each colorfully illustrated lesson. This book: Allows young gamers to engineer solutions, crack codes, and stretch their brains in fun and exciting waysSupports STEM education initiatives and builds twenty-first-century learning skillsEncourages kids to dive eagerly into a unique, colorful, kid-friendly offline learning adventure Whether it's designing a new mob, evaluating natural resources, engineering a mine cart, or using the binary alphabet to crack a code, third and fourth graders will discover new ways to stretch their brains, build their confidence, and satisfy their appetite for hands-on learning.

Get ready for a brain-building STEM adventure! This colorfully-illustrated, video-game themed learning tool is focused on four critical domains for young, 21st century learners: Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math. These content areas can be taught in isolation, but teaching them together (using diamond swords, zombies, creepers and redstone traps for added fun) allows for deeper understanding and authentic connections to the world where kids live and play. Children won’t need to be nagged to dive headfirst into this collection of over thirty S.T.E.M. challenges. Each lesson invites gamers to use the same kinds of creativity, critical thinking and problem-solving skills they enjoy using in their favorite video game. Stand back as they go beyond rote learning and enjoy having the freedom to take risks, form theories, and pose unique solutions to complex real-world problems. Whether they’re learning binary code, considering the laws of physics, or delving into architectural design, they’re finding new interests and building confidence in the classroom and beyond. Perfect for video-game-loving kids who want to learn STEMIncludes hundreds of step-by-step, full-color photos to guide readers of all agesHelps encourage creativity and problem-solving skills This forward-thinking workbook challenges young Minecrafters to use their natural creativity and problem-solving skills to address real-world problems. Science, technology, engineering, and math come to life on the pages of each colorfully-illustrated lesson. Whether it’s breaking codes, deciphering maps, designing buildings, or engineering a Redstone trap, first and second graders will discover new ways to stretch their brains, build their confidence, and satisfy their appetite for hands-on learning.

The most amazing trains are coming through—with big, bright art and fun facts! Chugga, chugga choo—can you hear the train coming through? Take your train-loving toddler on a ride through the wide world of locomotives. From a chuffing, puffing steam train to a cargo-carrying diesel train to a lightning-fast bullet train, your child will meet some of the coolest trains from early days to modern times. Kids will be fascinated by the fun facts, including what each train looked like, where they traveled, and how they zoomed while big, colorful, dynamic train illustrations bring the railroad right into your tiny train rider’s room. Trains Coming Through includes: Colorful choo choos—Vibrant, detailed illustrations of each train show moving parts, as well as a range of settings, railroad workers, animals, and more. Rhymes about rails—A fun rhyming refrain introduces kids to a variety of trains, including helper, long-distance, switcher, high and low, and electric trains like subways.Facts on tracks—Did you know the Maglev, the world’s fastest locomotive, floats above the tracks? Your child will love learning simple, fun facts about trains through the ages. Step aboard the train to fun and learn about a world of locomotives with your little one.

“Within These Lines is a moving story of love, hope, and family set against the dark history of Japanese internment in America. This book had me captivated!” —Maureen McQuerry, YALSA award-winning author of The PeculiarsEvalina Cassano’s life in an Italian-American family in 1941 is quiet and ordinary … until she falls in love with Taichi Hamasaki, the son of Japanese immigrants. Despite the scandal it would cause and the fact that interracial marriage is illegal in California, Evalina and Taichi vow they will find a way to be together. But anti-Japanese feelings erupt across the country after the attack on Pearl Harbor, and Taichi and his family are forced to give up their farm and are incarcerated in a Japanese internment camp.Degrading treatment at Manzanar Relocation Center is so difficult, Taichi doubts he will ever leave the camp alive. Treasured letters from Evalina are his sole connection to the outside world. Embracing the boldest action she can to help Taichi, Evalina begins to radically speak out at school and at home, shining a light on this dark and shameful racial injustice. With their future together on the line, Evalina and Taichi can only hold true to their values and believe in their love against all odds to have any hope of making it back to one another.Within These Lines is:A historical YA novel set against the backdrop of WWII and the shameful era of American injustice surrounding Japanese internment campsTold from the dual points of view of an Italian-American woman and Japanese-American man brought together by love then separated by war, injustice, and hatredAs haunting and unflinching as it is hope-filled and love-drivenPerfect for fans of Monica Hesse, Ruta Sepetys, and Elizabeth Wein

Ellie Sweet is a lot of things—good girl, novelist, silent adorer of the new boy at school, Palmer. But when “outcast” gets added to the list, she decides it’s time to take reality into her own hands … and tweak it as needed.In the pages of her book, she’s Lady Gabrielle, favorite of the medieval Italian court. Her once-friends are reduced to catty ladies-in-waiting, and the too-charming Palmer—who in real life never spares her a second word—gets to be nothing more than a rake wracked by unrequited love for her. She even has a perfect real-life villain in the brooding Chase, who hails from the wrong side of town.But just when she’s getting along great in her fictional world, the real one throws her a few curves. With Chase pursuing her, Palmer wanting to date her—but in secret—and the details of her manuscript going public, Ellie suddenly receives more attention than she ever really wanted. And when her former-friends discover what she’s been writing, they’re determined to teach Ellie a lesson about the severe consequences of using her pen as her sword.

There are millions of fish in the ocean, but this fisherman is never able to catch any of them no matter how hard he tries. He starts to get nervous when strange things happen that he can't explain. "Could the laughter be coming from under the sea? Could the fish be the ones leaving notes for me?". This is a fun story about fish fighting back and refusing to be caught.

Book 2 in the Ellie Sweet series.For once, Ellie Sweet has it all together. Her hair now curls instead of fuzzes, she’s tamed the former bad-boy, Chase Cervantes (she has, right?), and her debut novel will hit shelves in less than a year. Even her ex-friends are leaving her alone. Well, except for Palmer Davis, but it can’t be helped that he works at her grandmother’s nursing home.Life should feel perfect. And yet, it’s not that easy. Ellie’s editor loves her, but the rest of the publishing biz? Not so much. And they’re not shy about sharing their distrust over Ellie’s unlikely debut.Ellie has always been able to escape reality in the pages of her novel, but with the stress of major edits and rocky relationships, her words dry up. In fiction, everything always comes together, but in real life, it seems to Ellie that hard work isn’t always enough, the people you love can’t always be trusted…and the dream-come-true of publishing her book could be the biggest mistake she’s made yet.

“Within These Lines is a moving story of love, hope, and family set against the dark history of Japanese internment in America. This book had me captivated!” —Maureen McQuerry, YALSA award-winning author of The PeculiarsEvalina Cassano’s life in an Italian-American family in 1941 is quiet and ordinary … until she falls in love with Taichi Hamasaki, the son of Japanese immigrants. Despite the scandal it would cause and the fact that interracial marriage is illegal in California, Evalina and Taichi vow they will find a way to be together. But anti-Japanese feelings erupt across the country after the attack on Pearl Harbor, and Taichi and his family are forced to give up their farm and are incarcerated in a Japanese internment camp.Degrading treatment at Manzanar Relocation Center is so difficult, Taichi doubts he will ever leave the camp alive. Treasured letters from Evalina are his sole connection to the outside world. Embracing the boldest action she can to help Taichi, Evalina begins to radically speak out at school and at home, shining a light on this dark and shameful racial injustice. With their future together on the line, Evalina and Taichi can only hold true to their values and believe in their love against all odds to have any hope of making it back to one another.Within These Lines is:A historical YA novel set against the backdrop of WWII and the shameful era of American injustice surrounding Japanese internment campsTold from the dual points of view of an Italian-American woman and Japanese-American man brought together by love then separated by war, injustice, and hatredAs haunting and unflinching as it is hope-filled and love-drivenPerfect for fans of Monica Hesse, Ruta Sepetys, and Elizabeth Wein

“Within These Lines is a moving story of love, hope, and family set against the dark history of Japanese internment in America. This book had me captivated!” —Maureen McQuerry, YALSA award-winning author of The PeculiarsEvalina Cassano’s life in an Italian-American family in 1941 is quiet and ordinary … until she falls in love with Taichi Hamasaki, the son of Japanese immigrants. Despite the scandal it would cause and the fact that interracial marriage is illegal in California, Evalina and Taichi vow they will find a way to be together. But anti-Japanese feelings erupt across the country after the attack on Pearl Harbor, and Taichi and his family are forced to give up their farm and are incarcerated in a Japanese internment camp.Degrading treatment at Manzanar Relocation Center is so difficult, Taichi doubts he will ever leave the camp alive. Treasured letters from Evalina are his sole connection to the outside world. Embracing the boldest action she can to help Taichi, Evalina begins to radically speak out at school and at home, shining a light on this dark and shameful racial injustice. With their future together on the line, Evalina and Taichi can only hold true to their values and believe in their love against all odds to have any hope of making it back to one another.Within These Lines is:A historical YA novel set against the backdrop of WWII and the shameful era of American injustice surrounding Japanese internment campsTold from the dual points of view of an Italian-American woman and Japanese-American man brought together by love then separated by war, injustice, and hatredAs haunting and unflinching as it is hope-filled and love-drivenPerfect for fans of Monica Hesse, Ruta Sepetys, and Elizabeth Wein

Welcome to the world of Skylar Hoyt, a high school senior whose exotic Hawaiian looks have propelled her to the height of the "in" crowd, but who's no longer sure that's where she really fits. New friends, old friends, a reluctant romance, and a family crisis swirl around Skylar as she tries to keep it together and figure out who she really wants to be.Debut novelist Stephanie Morrill opens her first young adult series with a compelling story about characters every teen will recognize and relate to. Morrill addresses real teen issues, like popularity, friendship, sexuality, and more, with grace and style.