Books published by publisher Blue Star Press

It’s INSANITY!Are you reacting to your kids the same way over and over again and expecting different results? Are you tired of battling with your kids and second-guessing the best way to raise them?If you’ve been searching for parenting enlightenment then this book is your Holy Grail!.No other parenting book addresses so succinctly the underlying reasons for parents’ disillusionment. No other parenting book offers such timely and critical messages for parents today that are relevant to the rapidly changing social landscape.Parents Take Heart explains the current paradigm shift happening in the parenting world; the cultural reset that is gaining momentum reaching a pivotal tipping point. Parenting in the 21st century is undeniably one of the toughest jobs on this planet and there’s a call for a better way. Parents Take Heart shows you the way. To honor and enact our hopes and dreams for a grander world with greater peace and sustainability, kindness and fairness, we must listen to the stirrings in our heart, the call to parent mindfully, with love and compassion.Parents Take Heart gives parents the guidance they are looking for on how to parent with authority without being authoritarian, how to discipline without punishment, how to connect and not coerce, and how to empower their children as well as themselves. Your kids will feel heard and understood and in return, they will listen and cooperate! This is the mindful and wholehearted way.Parents Take Heart gives detailed guidance and inspired action steps, along with links to additional resources and reading material.In easy to follow, practical steps, Parents Take Heart shows you how to:reframe exisiting issues with a broader perspective and a more positive approachrespond to challenges with effective strategies, not with knee-jerk reactionsbetter understand your child’s world, and relate appropriatelydiscipline with kindness and compassion, so your child acts respectfully and responsiblycommunicate to have your needs met and solve issues together with your childmanage self-care and reduce your parenting stress and anxietytake mindful and wholehearted actionMost importantly, Parents Take Heart shows you how to listen to your heart to hear what your soul is saying and live from that place to achieve peace, connectedness, and wholeness.Follow the invaluable guidance in this book and in no time you will be championing your relationship with your children. You will be rewarded with more calm, confidence, and loving connections. Every parent deserves to feel empowered.Parents Take Heart will get you there with mindful and wholehearted intentions.It is not by chance you are here reading this. Your soul is urging you to buy this book, save your sanity and bring more harmony into your home. Read Parents Take Heart now. It will change your life.Scroll to the top and click the “buy now” button.

Award-winning artist Richard Jesse Watson presents a warm, funny story about a rabbit who finds many treasures inside his magic hat--but nothing that's better than a special friend to share them with.One day, a magic rabbit hops out of a hat and discovers he can do tricks with it. He pulls out some juggling balls, a picnic, and even a car to drive, but there's no one to share in the fun. Rabbit needs a friend. He reaches into the hat for some new playmates, but the frogs hop off, the mice scurry away, and the birds flap up into the sky. But before Rabbit gets discouraged, he tries one more trick, and out pops another magic hat. Inside that he finds the perfect friend: another magic rabbit, just like him! Magic tricks may be fun, but finding a friend is the best magic of all.

Winner of the Mildred Batchelder Award, this very human novel of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict is both touching and timelyNothing could be more frightening to Samir, a Palestinian boy, than to be where he is now: an Israeli hospital ward, trapped among the very people he blames for his brother's death. Amid this explosive atmosphere, Samir begins to learn about the Israeli kids around him. He discovers their hurts and conflicts - and hesitantly begins to share his own. This is a story of violence and healing - the story of a boy facing the enemy he has been taught to fear.

Five very different young women sent to the woods to learn about Icelandic horses, beautiful, fluffy, stocky horses with an uncanny ability to survive harsh climates and dangerous terrain. But this summer camping trip reveals their true power the horses and their young riders must travel centuries into the past to save the village of their ancestors. Uncovering amazing abilities, girls and horses work together to challenge a ruthless enemy, rescue a young princess, and realize their destinies include a prophecy only they can fulfill. Will the girls develop the trust and friendship necessary to battle together? Are the horses going to survive a battle plan sure to end in disaster? Can the young princess be saved before the evil chieftain destroys her? Can true love cross the distance of seven hundred years? Their very lives will depend on the magic only the Ice Horses can provide, and the courage hidden within their hearts.

A year after her tumultuous exit from the Foxwoode Riding Academy, seventeen-year-old Brynlei returns to confront her demons and win Foxwoode’s elite Top Rider Award. When she stumbles over an antique doll at the construction site of a new barn, a series of inexplicable occurrences force her to question whether her condition as a “Highly-Sensitive Person” is to blame or if something more sinister is at play.As Brynlei becomes consumed with discovering the history of the unearthed doll, the bizarre happenings escalate to dangerous levels. She soon realizes that someone close to her is lying. But who? Could a decades-old tragedy and the threatening events at Foxwoode be more closely entwined than she ever imagined?

If women's rights were stripped away, would you stand up and fight?In 2064, that's exactly what happened.When women started outnumbering men 7 to 1, panic spread like wildfire. Women's rights were revoked and abortions enforced under federal law. Violent riots shook the streets of Washington D. C. and a nation-wide revolution began.Five years later, in the desolate wastelands of a once prosperous America, a colony of female survivors resides within the safety of an old penitentiary turned into a blooming garden—a haven known as Eden where only one rule protects them all: women may enter, but men are forbidden.Chilling, twisted, and frighteningly vivid, Eden will draw readers into a dark dystopian world like no other.Order all three books now through this box set and save 30%!This box set includes the first three books of the EDEN series—a dark dystopian survival fiction containing over 800 pages of chilling suspense and explosive action.★★★★★ - "Loved it! Certainly plausible, especially this day and age." - Amazon Review ★★★★★ - "What a terrific and highly entertaining read. I am now a huge fan!" - Amazon Review

With more than one million books in print, Ricky Ricotta and his Mighty Robot are a big hit with children! But have they finally met their match with the Jurassic Jack Rabbits from Jupiter?It's Ricky Ricotta's birthday, and as a special treat, his parents are taking him and his Mighty Robot to see dinosaurs at the museum. Too bad they've also invited Ricky's little cousin Lucy--she's a real pest! When they get to the museum, all the dinosaurs are missing their heads . . . because an evil spacebunny from Jupiter has used the dino DNA to create Jurassic Jack Rabbits! Now it's up to the entire Ricotta family, including Lucy, to stop them from taking over the planet. With their easy-to-read language and action-packed pictures, the Ricky Ricotta books are ideal for beginning readers.

Sometimes people vanish for a reason...Spending three weeks of her summer at the Foxwoode Riding Academy in northern Michigan should have been one of the happiest times of sixteen-year-old Brynlei’s life. But from the moment Brynlei arrives at Foxwoode, she can’t shake the feeling she’s being watched. Then she hears the story of a girl who vanished on a trail ride four years earlier. While the other girls laugh over the story of the dead girl who haunts Foxwoode, Brynlei senses that the girl—or her ghost—may be lurking in the shadows. Brynlei’s quest to reveal the truth interferes with her plan to keep her head down and win Foxwoode’s coveted Top Rider Award. To make things worse, someone discovers her search for answers and will go to any length to stop her. As Brynlei begins to unravel the facts surrounding the missing girl’s disappearance, she is faced with an impossible choice. Will she protect a valuable secret? Or save a life?

With more than one million books in print, Ricky Ricotta and his Mighty Robot are a big hit with children. Here the mightiest struggle of the solar system continues with Stupid Stinkbugs from Saturn!Ricky Ricotta and his Mighty Robot battle for the safety of the solar system once again! This time, smelly Sergeant Stinkbug arrives on Earth with a plan to kidnap the king of the world, but he ends up with Ricky's little cousin Lucy instead. Now it's up to Ricky and his Robot to save Lucy and the rest of mousekind from a stinky situation! With easy-to-read language and action-packed illustrations on every page, the Ricky Ricotta books are perfect for beginning readers. It's adventure that's truly out of this world!

Newbery writer Kathryn Lasky presents a wildly funny Frankenstein / Halloween tale in the vein of Dav Pilkey's bestseller THE HALLO-WIENER, with hilarious illustrations by new artist David Jarvis.Dr. Smart Pig is a famous inventor, but he doesn't have any friends. His brothers were eaten by the Big Bad Wolf, and now he's all alone. Halloween is coming up, and he doesn't have anyone to go trick-or-treating with. Suddenly, Dr. Pig has an idea. He can INVENT a friend--a pig who is bigger and better and absolutely wolf-proof! But things don't turn out quite as expected, and soon Dr. Pig realizes he's created a monster--an enormous porker who hogs the show but ultimately proves that true friendship comes in all shapes, sizes, and appetites. Who ate the Big Bad Wolf? PORKENSTEIN, that's who!