Books with title The Change

Teddy Webster is a little league baseball player who loves to pitch. Unfortunately, the other players in his league love to hit against him because his fastball isn’t quite fast enough. Struggling to compete, he learns how to throw an illegal curveball from his babysitter who just happens to be a high school baseball player.When Teddy uses the curveball in a game, it is called illegal and he loses the trust of his coach and teammates. He needs to find a new way to compete. He reluctantly turns to his mother’s new boyfriend who works at the local sporting goods store. The results show Teddy what is really important in life and baseball just might be second to family.

This short story is about a little boy, unique, special, unlike most kids his age. Paul nor his mother knew just how special he really was, his mother Mary asked her parents a question as a little girl like how did the sun get in the sky? Mary's parents would say someone threw a lightning bug far up and the sun came to be, Mary said ok. When Mary's son Paul asked his mother a question she responded much like her parents did, oh but Paul being the unique child he was tried everything his mother told him. Mary was unaware of the things happening around her until this particular day when the sky turned purple.

The Big Idea Gang is buzzing with excitement! They're going to show Clay Elementary just how important bees can be in this chapter book series about making a case—and making a difference—by the author of Jigsaw Jones.After Kym and Lizzie get the awesome opportunity to visit a bee colony, they realize all the wonderful things bees do! But how can it be that these amazing insects are disappearing? And what will happen to our food chain without the great pollinators buzzing about? If only everyone else at Clay Elementary could understand how important the bees are for the environment! Now that's a big idea that needs to be shared! With the help of Connor and Deon, Kym and Lizzie set out to show their school the beauty of bees, and use their powers of persuasion to make a difference in the world.

Ivy Carson belonged to the notorious Carson family, which lived in a run-down house in suburban Rosewood. But Ivy was not a typical Carson. There was something wonderful about her. Ivy explained it by saying that she was a changeling, a child of supernatural parents who had been exchanged for the real Ivy Carson at birth. This classic book was first published in 1970. It was awarded a Christopher Medal and named an outstanding book for young people by the Junior Library Guild.

Heidi awakens from the powerful dimension that exists during a near-death experience transformed into a change agent. An unlikely and unsympathetic superhero, she reluctantly possesses the power to return people to a time in their past where they struggle with tremendous regret. The change episodes take a toll on Heidi, yet she can’t resist helping people alter their actions and repair hearts. Obstinate, beautiful and born disadvantaged, Heidi drifts about living disobediently and choosing the benefactors of her gift selfishly. Although completely unlikeable, you will find yourself rooting for Heidi and her wayward life until she comes face to face with the ultimate decision.

Which child doesn’t instinctively know that there’s a hand lurking beneath your bed, just waiting to reach out and grab your ankle?Teenagers Ben Ford and Sammy Pritchard had stopped believing in such nonsense long ago – until the night they found out it was the hand of the Catcher.The Catcher hunts down any kid who, stumbling into a world of Scurriers, Dobblers and Nudwads, finds they can change into any creature nearby like some magically-powered chameleon.And if he can’t catch the kids? – well, he’ll just take their parents as collateral instead.