Books with author elizabeth ring

The Axis are a powerful force in World War II. Learning their secrets gives the Allies a chance to stop them. Will you: Fly the deadly skies to take pictures of German military sites? Share secrets that come over wireless communication from Nazi-occupied Paris? Steal information from the Japanese military as a secret agent? You Choose offers multiple perspectives on history, supporting Common Core reading standards and providing readers a front-row seat to the past.

Raven Birchfield has dug up an ancient nursery rhyme book as well as a crystal in the backyard of her new home. After finally getting rid of Mary, Mary (Quite Contrary) who haunted Raven's head and tried to take control of her life, she now has another problem to deal with and it concerns her best friend, Candy.After researching the ancient nursery rhymes, Raven discovers some horrible hidden meanings behind them. And now, Little Miss Muffet is starting to emerge, using Raven's friend, Candy to do her dirty work. Not to mention, the girl isn't afraid of spiders, but actually loves them instead.Will the evil Muffet use an innocent girl's own anger toward an abusive stepfather to do her bidding, or will a twist of fate keep Candy trapped in a realm where nursery rhymes aren't for children after all?Watch for Blue - Book 3 (Little Boy Blue) coming soon. And be sure to read Mary, Mary - Book 1 (Mary, Mary Quite Contrary) as well.

Golden Palm Contest Finalist!Being invited to see Mary's garden was not a good thing unless you wanted to end up dead!Raven Birchfield moves into her deceased eccentric aunt's home with her mother and younger brother not realizing her life is about to change in ways she's never imagined. The house backs up to a small graveyard. When she goes to plant a flower in her new yard for her horticulture class, strange things happen.She digs up an old nursery rhyme book as well as a quartz crystal on a necklace. A raven keeps following her around and she keeps hearing an eerie voice calling out the name Mary on the breeze. To make matters worse, at her new high school she starts getting bullied by one of the popular, pretty girls who happens to have a boyfriend that Raven wishes was hers. After researching the origins of nursery rhymes for her term paper, Raven finds out that they are really stories of horrid people and events from history, one of them being about Bloody Mary who is featured in the nursery rhyme, Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary.When Raven enters into an alternate reality where she ends up in the body and hearing the thoughts of the man killer, Mary, she is forced to make choices that will alter her life as well as Mary's forever.

Emus, the second largest birds in the world, can’t fly, and maybe that’s a good thing! (Can you imagine the five-to-six foot creatures over your head?) One part of the problem stems from their weird feathers. But there’s much more! Read why these birds are stuck on the ground, and see the skills nature’s provided to compensate for this glitch in their development. Mild mannered emus enjoy interacting with people, and if you’re hanging out nearby, a bird might do its best to get you to join in its game of “tag” or horsing around. Emus are curious beyond words. They edge closer to the action, study you with their beady eyes and probe objects with their beaks, trying to understand what you’re up to. Learn why Stanley, a Massachusetts farmer, raises the odd birds and loves this form of agriculture. He understands why his clever emus behave as they do in captivity, and he’s learned techniques for outfoxing them and their tricks. He guides the reader through the fun and the science of emus. See how the female emu rules her roost—or does she? How does an unborn chick breathe? Learn what pipping, booming and grunting mean. And follow Stan’s experiment that determines if his farm-raised birds can “remember” how their ancestors behaved in the wilds of Australia. Miraculously, these birds have survived, virtually unchanged, for millions of years and through drastic climate changes as the earth evolved. Today, the quirky critters thrive in wildly varying climates across most of the U.S. on some 5,000 farms and in many other countries too. Discover where they originated and how they arrived in their current destinations. Amazing Amusing Emus leads readers on a fun investigation of the birds’ past and present and poses thoughtful questions about their futures.