Books with title The Family Tree

A young children's easy/beginning reader. High quality, comical, and colorful illustrations makes this book fun and interesting for both young readers and their adults. This book includes several pop ups for added fun learning. Learning opportunities in this book include recognizing the words for the following colors: white, red, brown, blue, black, yellow, gray and orange; and recognizing the words for these animal names: llama, cow, crow, and burro. This book introduces readers to the exclamation point. Concepts for discussion from this book include: Can animals' dung turn colors based on what they eat?; Composting as related to farming. What do farmers do with dung?; and finally this book will spark a discussion on the responsibilities that come with animal keeping.

For the Anasazi, life depends on precious rainfall. But after weeks without rain, the land is drying up, and the corn is dying. Soon Sosi's family will have to find a new place to live. Her mother and father are cross and tired as they pack; no one has time for Sosi. So she runs away, down into the bank of the small pool, and makes a family of mud dolls that dry in the hot sun. Here there is no crying or arguing. The mud father tells his mud daughter, You are my lark, my lizard. I will weave robes for you and never scold. Sosi makes the mud girl dance for rain. And the rain does come, bringing Sosi back to the family that needs her most of all.

Family Tree – Spy Back Page:A young man uncovers a secret about the last generation of his family. With the life of his mother at stake he begins a journey that uncovers a relationship broken by fate.A distraught German woman is torn between her saving her own life or the life of her Children.A troubled British soldier is rescued by the love of a woman he should never have met.The lives of a family start to unravel through history where the distinction between past and present becomes blurred for the sake of protecting their very existence.Family Tree – Spy Review:This Book takes the brutality of war, and creates an Adventure story. It follows the collision of the lives of two people. People from two distinct backgrounds, following two distinct paths in life, and it delivers unexpected consequences. War is a time that threatens many lives, and the lineage of many families. The Book follows the fragile relationship between members of a family during war time.The book opens with a small group of American soldiers making their way ashore in the aftermath of the opening morning of D-Day, World War 2, 1944. As the soldiers bed in for the night, a dishevelled British soldier, appearing lost and confused, is found on the beaches. This British soldier and the American soldiers are bought together by their Commanding Office, and offered the opportunity to re-ignite a task that had been written off in the chaos of the early morning on D-Day.In present day, a teenage boy is taking part in a game of hunt and chase in a local Forest that leads to a dangerous close. He is rescued by his friends, and revived in Hospital, but on awakening shares with his parents his prominent role in an unusual dream.A young German mother is forced to abandon her two girls, and join in the oppression of War torn Europe. She arrives in London, determined to find her way home, but must first complete the task assigned by her unbalanced Controller. She taunts and wins the heart of a troubled British solider, and following him to Scotland, seeks information that will lead her to escape, back to Germany and her daughters.A British soldier searches for the chance to forget his past, and arrange his own death through glory and self destruction. But he meets a beautiful woman, and while in Scotland falls in love, and begins to question the route in life he has forged for himself.The timing of escape for the German mother is accelerated as she finds she is pregnant. She makes a calculated decision to protect the life of her unborn son. In the aftermath she devastates the life of the Soldier who immediately sinks back into his search for self destruction.On instruction form their absent mother, two German girls leave the sanctuary of their home town, and join refugees fleeing from East Germany. They make their way to an agreed meeting place, and are lucky to find the safety of an orphanage run by a sympathetic German couple.Pursued by her Controller, the German woman races across Germany to meet her children. They lose themselves within the dislocated populations of the bombed out German Cities. But in the confusion they are picked up and forced into labour: to serve the Army that has been amassed to defend the Atlantic Coast of France.The lives of Jake a young teenage boy, and the troubled British solider collide as the soldier is tragically killed on entry to Normandy on D-Day. But though his legacy the soldier is resurrected and his re-incarnation is taken on by JakeThe German Controller catches up with his prey deep inside the Normandy countryside of France.The German woman defends her girls and new born son, against the pent up rage of her abusive Controller.And the revived British soldier stumbles upon his long lost love, and a chance to make peace within his troubled life through securing the lives of her children.Books in the Family Tree Series:- Spy- Mason (due 2013)- Antarctic (due 2014)

Little Jimmy has discovered that there are magical people in his family history. When an evil wizard ancestor kidnaps his baby sister, Jimmy receives help from the good wizard Karl who takes him back in time to find his baby sister and to confront the evil ancestor that took her. Along the way, Jimmy meets other ancestors and finds that he also has magical abilities. But, will that be enough for Jimmy to save his baby sister?

This is a really cool story. It sounds a little disgusting, with all that dirt, grease and cow patties. But just Immerse yourself in the filthy world of ‘Spud’. With his horridly wonderful family and his ambitions, brilliant in their absurdity.The only restriction is your imagination!“It takes more than just a vivid imagination to be a master storyteller. This is one of the greatest lessons I have learnt from reading your piece. Your use of craft is so clever that it has had me hooked from the start and almost over-eager to complete reading the story.Like a good pantomime it works on many levels, from 8 – 80 (and all ages in between).” Simon Halte (Writer)