Books with author Tanya Lee Stone

Pick up your Special Visitor's Pass and come along for a tour through some of America's most interesting factories in this series. You'll get a behind-the-scenes look at how familiar items like crayons, sneakers, chocolate, and guitars are made. And you'll have a chance to see and understand the whole manufacturing process--from raw materials through finished product. As you tour, you'll see how each company has solved special problems and challenges in putting its product together. You'll also appreciate what people can accomplish with good technology and some creative thinking! By the time you're done, you'll really appreciate just how much work goes into making some of your favorite things! Each volume includes: Glossary For More Information Index

The highly anticipated sequel to The Wolf and the Rain (2019 IndieReader Discovery Award Winner (best YA fiction), Wishing Shelf Book Awards bronze medalist (teen category), B.R.A.G Medallion Honoree, Readers' Favorite Book Awards silver medalist (best YA sci-fi), shortlisted for the Whistler Independent Book Awards, and one of the Kirkus 'Great Indie Books Worth Discovering').Girls are being snatched from the Barrow. Who has been buying them and why is unclear, but one thing is certain: they are being taken south of the wall into Seira, the military state that Samarra escaped a year ago. The military state that wants her dead.After a tumultuous night that leaves one of their own murdered, Samarra and her friends manage to thwart this year's shipment. With the trafficker's cart in their possession, they have an opportunity—trick their way into Seira by masquerading as the kidnapped girls and their guards.It's a grandiose plan born out of grief and guilt and rage. A doomed mission, they all know, though the enemy they are moving toward is far more powerful than any of them could have imagined. But before they can take on the puppetmaster, they'll have to fight their way through the Waste.For Raina. For Anna. For all the girls that vanished in the night.PLEASE NOTE: This work contains mature themes

Now reference can be accessible even to younger readers! Thousands of captivating facts and figures about America are packed into these ten colorful introductory reference volumes. Clear, simple spreads about our nation's most awe-inspiring natural features and landmarks make America's Top 10 books a wonderful way to get young readers hooked on reference. Easy-to-digest entries provide the most important background and history while bulleted boxes offer quick, at-a-glance highlights and facts. Beautiful full-color photographs make the pages come alive as the text sparks curiosity and further interest in the subjects. Also included are a glossary, further reading section and an index.

Pick up your Special Visitor's Pass and come along for a tour through some of America's most interesting factories in this series. You'll get a behind-the-scenes look at how familiar items like crayons, sneakers, chocolate, and guitars are made. And you'll have a chance to see and understand the whole manufacturing process--from raw materials through finished product. As you tour, you'll see how each company has solved special problems and challenges in putting its product together. You'll also appreciate what people can accomplish with good technology and some creative thinking! By the time you're done, you'll really appreciate just how much work goes into making some of your favorite things! Each volume includes: Glossary For More Information Index

Boldness, imagination, and ruthless competition combine in Tanya Lee Stone and Steven Salerno's Pass Go and Collect $200, a riveting picture book history of Monopoly, one of the world's most famous games.In the late 1800s lived Lizzie Magie, a clever and charismatic woman with a strong sense of justice. Waves of urban migration drew Lizzie’s attention to rising financial inequality. One day she had an idea: create a game that shows the unfairness of the landlord-tenant relationship. But game players seemed to have the most fun pretending to be wealthy landowners. Enter Charles Darrow, a marketer and salesman with a vision for transforming Lizzie’s game into an exciting staple of American family entertainment. Features back matter that includes "Monopoly Math" word problems and equations. Excellent STEM connections and resources.This title has Common Core connections. Christy Ottaviano Books

Now reference can be accessible even to younger readers! Thousands of captivating facts and figures about America are packed into these ten colorful introductory reference volumes. Clear, simple spreads about our nation's most awe-inspiring natural features and landmarks make America's Top 10 books a wonderful way to get young readers hooked on reference. Easy-to-digest entries provide the most important background and history while bulleted boxes offer quick, at-a-glance highlights and facts. Beautiful full-color photographs make the pages come alive as the text sparks curiosity and further interest in the subjects. Also included are a glossary, further reading section and an index.

A gorgeous, full-color oversized book about educating girls across the world inspired by the documentary that Entertainment Weekly says “every mother, sister, daughter, should see, as well as the men who love and support them.” This is the right book for the present moment and perfect for fans of inspirational nonfiction such as I Am Malala and anyone who believes that one girl can change the world.Worldwide, over 62 million girls are not in school.But one girl with courage is a revolution. Girl Rising, a global campaign for girls’ education, created a film that chronicled the stories of nine girls in the developing world, allowing viewers the opportunity to witness how education can break the cycle of poverty.Now, award-winning author Tanya Lee Stone deftly uses new research to illuminate the dramatic facts behind the film, focusing both on the girls captured on camera and many others. She examines barriers to education in depth—early child marriage and childbearing, slavery, sexual trafficking, gender discrimination, and poverty—and shows how removing these barriers means not only a better life for girls, but safer, healthier, and more prosperous communities. With full-color photos from the film, infographics, and a compelling narrative, Girl Rising will inspire readers of all ages to join together in a growing movement to help change the world.A Junior Library Guild Selection Bank Street Best Children’s Books of the Year “A moving account of hardships and triumphs that is bound to inspire future activists, this is a devastating but crucial read.” —Kirkus Reviews, Starred Additional Praise for the Film: “Delivers . . . tangible hope that the world can be healed in a better future.” —Meryl Streep“Girl Rising stands as a testament to the power of information.” —The Los Angeles Times

Josie, Nicolette, and Aviva all get mixed up with a senior boy–a cool, slick, sexy boy who can talk them into doing almost anything he wants. In a blur of high school hormones and personal doubt, each girl struggles with how much to give up and what ultimately to keep for herself. How do girls handle themselves? How much can a boy get away with? And in the end, who comes out on top? A bad boy may always be a bad boy. But this bad boy is about to meet three girls who won’t back down.