Books with title Making Waves

“Just try it one time. It won’t hurt you.”High school junior and avid swimmer Kate Walker has decided to try something new this year. She leaves the comfort and freedom of open water and secures a spot on her school’s swim team. She soon becomes obsessed with practice and excelling at the championships in pursuit of a college scholarship.When Kate’s friends encourage her to do something illegal to get through her events at the most important swim meet of her life, she must choose between letting down her teammates by doing the right thing or risking it all no matter the consequences.What will Kate do? What will YOU do?Making Waves is part of the What Now? collection where teens like you get to make the choices about hot topics like drinking, relationships, stealing, drugs, cheating, and purity. Written especially for girls like you facing difficult decisions and lots of peer pressure, the What Now? Collection allows you to step right into the life of the main character and choose your own ending."It's evident that Nicole is a rare author. She has a tender heart for teenage girls and has poured that care into her stories. May her tribe increase! And may her books lead many readers to make wise choices."--Robin Jones Gunn best-selling author of the Christy Miller Series and theKatie Weldon SeriesMAKING WAVES is a solid story with interesting teens that shows the consequences of choices—good or bad. This book is not only a good read for teens, but would also make a foundation for a discussion in a Sunday School Class, Youth Group or between parents and teens. Faith element: medium. Recommended.(Carolyn R. Scheidies Author's Choice Reviews 2010-03-31)

Heaven’s favourite bad boy seems to have turned over a new leaf, so when Brice asks Mel to follow him and Lola on a mission to the 17th century Caribbean, she happily zooms off to pack her bikini. But the lush paradise of the New World has a dark side – piracy, slave ships and cruel plantation owners, and when Mel finally catches up with her friends she finds them both suffering from severe cosmic memory loss, having totally forgotten who they are and what they came to Earth to do. Then Brice abruptly abandons her and Lola, running off to Port Royal the notorious Jamaican city where pirates live like kings. It’s up to Mel to get their mission back on track, but Lola is not in the mood to co-operate.

When Jesus says love our enemies, some people take him literally. What happens when you start to love your enemies and serve others? Read about fifty inspiring people who have chosen to love their enemies and done good to those who harmed them. Filled with true stories from past and present, this captivating book is a showcase of heroes who have stood up for whats right to make the world a better place. What would it mean to step between soldiers and someone they are trying to harm? Could you love the person who bullied your friend? Would you rescue the man chasing you across a frozen river because of your beliefs? Would you serve a meal to the people trying to break into your house? Fifty ordinary people. Fifty extraordinary acts of peace.

Andy Devereux invites Nancy, Ned, and Bess to a sailing regatta near his family’s estate in Annapolis, Maryland. Andy is the co-owner of a boat-designing company, and he all but guarantees that his boat will win the cup. But his hopes—and his life—are suddenly blown off course when the police arrest him for murder! Andy’s partner, Nick Lazlo, has vanished at sea, his boat stained with blood and riddled with bullet holes. Nancy’s investigation into the company reveals that the business had a strange and unsavory side—both personally and financially. In a case of missing money, missing boats, and missing bodies, the most dangerous discovery of all may be the truth!

Finding out about rhythmic motion is more than just a day at the beach. Young scientists can follow the fun-filled, step-by-step instructions provided to build wave generators, bubble domes, and eighty-legged centipedes and then use the devices to do more than fifty ingenious experiments that demonstrate how wave energy travels through matter. "This title offers exciting, creative activities in an appealing format."--School Library Journal. A Boston Children's Museum Activity Book.

“Just try it one time. It won’t hurt you.” High school junior and avid swimmer Kate Walker has decided to try something new this year. She leaves the comfort and freedom of open water and secures a spot on her school’s swim team. She soon becomes obsessed with practice and excelling at the championships in pursuit of a college scholarship. When Kate’s friends encourage her to do something illegal to get through her events at the most important swim meet of her life, she must choose between letting down her teammates by doing the right thing or risking it all no matter the consequences. What will Kate do? What will YOU do? Making Waves is part of the What Now? collection where teens like you get to make the choices about hot topics like drinking, relationships, stealing, drugs, cheating, and purity. Written especially for girls like you facing difficult decisions and lots of peer pressure, the What Now? Collection allows you to step right into the life of the main character and choose your own ending. "It's evident that Nicole is a rare author. She has a tender heart for teenage girls and has poured that care into her stories. May her tribe increase! And may her books lead many readers to make wise choices." --Robin Jones Gunn best-selling author of the Christy Miller Series and the Katie Weldon Series MAKING WAVES is a solid story with interesting teens that shows the consequences of choices—good or bad. This book is not only a good read for teens, but would also make a foundation for a discussion in a Sunday School Class, Youth Group or between parents and teens. Faith element: medium. Recommended. (Carolyn R. Scheidies Author's Choice Reviews 2010-03-31)

Finding out about rhythmic motion is more than just a day at the beach. Young scientists can follow the fun-filled, step-by-step instructions provided to build wave generators, bubble domes, and eighty-legged centipedes and then use the devices to do more than fifty ingenious experiments that demonstrate how wave energy travels through matter. "This title offers exciting, creative activities in an appealing format."--School Library Journal. A Boston Children's Museum Activity Book.