Books with title Emma's New Beginning

Sam Hendry is not looking forward to starting at her new school. Things go from bad to worse as the day of truth arrives and all of her fears come true... and then some.When Sam meets a different group of people who immediately accept her as a friend, she begins to feel more positive.With her new friends and interests, will Sam finally feel able to face the bully who taunts her, and to summon up the courage to perform on stage?

This is the first book of Stryders Odyssey, a SciFi / Fantasy series that will take the reader on adventures to other worlds. When Sam goes camping in the woods near his home town of Big Bear, it is a time when he comes in contact with more than just the local wildlife. He travels through a portal and learns that the human spirit exists on other worlds besides his own. For this discovery will take him to the nine colonized planets on a search to find those with the rings of council. But be mindfull of the ‘Order for they have their own agenda. [Ver 2-14] ...and did I tell you there be Starships! Excerpt... Cassie (short for Cassandra) had just arrived as one of the replacement astronauts to the International Space Station. This being her first night in space, she found it very hard to sleep; she was simply too excited. She floated round the station until she came to the Tranquility Module. She recalled that this was where the Cupola observatory was located. Now the Cupola was a dome that was comprised of seven distinct windows and they gave the viewer one of the best views of the Earth from the station’s 230 mile high orbit. As she stared down upon the Earth a glint of something yellow caught her eye. She thought nothing of it at first but afterwards she wished she had triggered the high speed cameras. For it was only when the band of yellow light coalesced into a solid object that looked remarkably like a starship that it really got her attention. It was at least a hundred miles away and so quite far, but then the craft itself was very large, even for that distance. Before she could catch herself she blurted out, “Please tell me somebody else saw that?” Her request was answered by silence. But that night she saw an up-close version of the same event replay itself in her dreams. There was a flash of yellow that came together to form itself into a sleek starship which drifted by the International Space Station as she herself was looking out the Cupola. As it passed by it then did a graceful 90 degree counter-clockwise roll. She knew there was some writing down the side of the vessel but she just couldn’t manage to resolve the letters. Also, for some reason, she felt she had seen two young men standing in the forward section. The ship steadily disappeared into the distance. Cassie turned over in her sleep. “I wonder who I ask for a transfer?” she murmured. Excerpt... Up the proa rose as it was carried towards the crest of the great wave. In a trice Great-grandfather had overcome his fears and for the second time in his life, with adrenalin now surging through his old body, he found new strength to surf his outrigger at the top of the hundred foot rogue. Keanu looked back at his ‘Grandfather just as an intense flash of light illuminated the wave and the entire night sky. The picture of his ‘Grandfather riding his outrigger would now be forever etched in his mind for all time. Keanu had seen his Great-grandfather act out his tale. It hadn’t been imaginary fiction after all. It had all been for real. It was then when Keanu moaned to himself. For now, just like his Grandfather and his Great-grandfather, he too had a story to tell, and he also knew from first-hand experience that no one he told would believe him.

When Nick and Sarah are taken to a foster home, their feelings of self worth suffer. Then Nick becomes angry with the kids at school who tease him about his poor reading skills and with his foster parents who set up rules. When he and Sarah are taken to a second foster home, he becomes even more upset. The school counselor helps Nick learn to control his anger and adjust to his new family. This book emphasizes accepting the changed family situation and reassures foster children that they are important and cared for. (Grades 3-4)

Rachel Yoder has been out-of-sorts ever since her best friend moved away. What will she do without her? When a new girl named Audra shows up at the Amish schoolhouse, Rachel soon finds herself with a sticky sandwich, a mud-spattered dress, a sore nose, and a rotten attitude. As things go from bad to worse, Rachel is in danger of losing more than one friend. Will she ever learn the value of forgiveness?

Top Secret Kayla and Katharine are identical fourteen-year-old twins who have just discovered that their parents have been keeping a secret from them their whole lives. Once they find out the secret, they are told they are not allowed to tell anyone about it. Will they keep the secret, or will they spill it? Find out in this great book entitled, A New Beginning.

Despite living amongst luxuries only the son of eccentrically rich socialites could have, Scott Benson is miserable and alone. With limited connection to his parents and even less to his classmates, all Scott can do with his life is narrate someone else?s. Sitting alone in the cafeteria, he meets Tristan, a charismatic stranger with an insatiable desire for excitement. Within one week, Scott is catapulted into the center of his high school?s most elite social circle; a new world is suddenly opened to him and it?s all he can do to follow along. He gets his first taste of drugs and alcohol, watches as his new best friend dates the girl of his dreams, and finds himself the pawn in the manipulative games of others, all in the name of good fun. Yet even as Scott is trying to make heads or tails of the chaos, Tristan?s appetite for adventure only continues to grow, escalating from the innocently daring to the recklessly destructive.

Sam Hendry is not looking forward to starting at her new school. Things go from bad to worse as the day of truth arrives and all of her fears come true. . . and then some. When Sam meets a different group of people who immediately accept her as a friend, she begins to feel more positive. With her new friends and interests, will Sam finally feel able to face the bully who taunts her, and to summon up the courage to perform on stage?

New Beginnings is set around the country estate of Reddock and a young girl, Izzy. Through longing, love and endurance of time this coming of age adventure story follows a girl learning to appreciate fully her family, her rural community and the fact that she is never going to have the money her school peers have, and her struggle with a somewhat impoverished background. But she learns that money is not so important in life. Through humour, and strange ghostly happenings her supernatural encounters and the gift of her beautiful horse she soon learns to love who she is and the precious gifts she has been given, that of her beautiful Tommy and her time travelling adventures.

Rachel Yoder has been out-of-sorts ever since her best friend moved away. What will she do without her? When a new girl named Audra shows up at the Amish schoolhouse, Rachel soon finds herself with a sticky sandwich, a mud-spattered dress, a sore nose, and a rotten attitude. As things go from bad to worse, Rachel is in danger of losing more than one friend. Will she ever learn the value of forgiveness?

Rachel Yoder has been out-of-sorts ever since her best friend moved away. What will she do without her? When a new girl named Audra shows up at the Amish schoolhouse, Rachel soon finds herself with a sticky sandwich, a mud-spattered dress, a sore nose, and a rotten attitude. As things go from bad to worse, Rachel is in danger of losing more than one friend. Will she ever learn the value of forgiveness?