Books with title The Wall of Mirrors

This book celebrates melanin and promotes body positivity. As you turn each page, young readers will fall more deeply in love with all body types, skin tones, and learn to challenge beauty standards out of western cultural norms. This book is a great resource to develop self-esteem, confidence, and self-awareness particularly, for black and brown children.

14 year old Say lives with her family in a dystopian America three hundred years in the future. Supporters of the emperor have split America with a wall that goes across the country. Nobody has been on the other side of the wall in generations. Say's family lives on the emperors side, her family does not support the emperor. Secretly, they speak ill of him, disgusted by segregation in their country. When Say's older brother Jacob tells her about what it's like on the other side of the wall after he accidentally sees across, she is determined to do something about it. She knows she'll be killed, but she knows she can't let her country be segregated by the wall any longer.

Aiby Lily is in danger! A special reunion of the Enchanted Emporium’s shopkeeper families turned out to be a deadly trap — and Lily’s talented father is powerless to stop it. Finley McPhee needs to rescue his friend and find out where the meeting of the seven families is being held, all while fending off the evil Semueld Askell. But along the way, Finley will finally come face to face with the part of himself that he never wanted to meet.

Mirror Mirror on the Wall is a tool for mothers in helping explain body changes that girls go through in puberty. Team this up with practical tips on how to take care of hair, skin, and nails and you have a hit with moms and daughters! The culture today emphasizes beauty as the most important asset of a girl. This book puts the emphasis on true beauty, inner beauty while also giving girls what they need to know about looking their best. The girls can make their own bath salts and masks by following the recipes provided in this book.

Aiby Lily is in danger! A special reunion of the Enchanted Emporium’s shopkeeper families turned out to be a deadly trap ― and Lily’s talented father is powerless to stop it. Now Finley McPhee needs to rescue his friend and find out where the meeting of the seven families is being held, all while fending off the evil Semueld Askell. But along the way, Finley will finally come face to face with a part of himself that he never wanted to meet.

In "The Passage "and" The Twelve, "Justin Cronin brilliantly imagined the fall of civilization and humanity s desperate fight to survive. Now all is quiet on the horizon but does silence promise the nightmare s end or the second coming of unspeakable darkness? At last, this bestselling epic races to its breathtaking finale. "The world we knew is gone. What world will rise in its place?" The Twelve have been destroyed and the hundred-year reign of darkness that descended upon the world has ended. The survivors are stepping outside their walls, determined to build society anew and daring to dream of a hopeful future. But far from them, in a dead metropolis, he waits: Zero. The First. Father of the Twelve. The anguish that shattered his human life haunts him, and the hatred spawned by his transformation burns bright. His fury will be quenched only when he destroys Amy humanity s only hope, the Girl from Nowhere who grew up to rise against him. One last time light and dark will clash, and at last Amy and her friends will know their fate. Praise for Justin Cronin One of those rare authors who work on two different levels, blending elegantly crafted literary fiction with cliff-hanging thrills. " Fort Worth Star-Telegram" "" "The Passage" Magnificent . . . Cronin has taken his literary gifts, and he has weaponized them. . . . "The Passage" can stand proudly next to Stephen King s apocalyptic masterpiece "The Stand, " but a closer match would be Cormac McCarthy s "The Road." "Time" Read this book and the ordinary world disappears. Stephen King [A] big, engrossing read that will have you leaving the lights on late into the night. "The Dallas Morning News" "" "The Twelve" [A] literary superthriller, driven at once by character and plot. " The New York Times Book Review" "" Gripping . . . Cronin [introduces] eerie new elements to his masterful mythology. " The San Diego Union-Tribune" "" An undeniable and compelling epic . . . a complex narrative of flight and forgiveness, of great suffering and staggering loss, of terrible betrayals and incredible hope. Milwaukee" Journal Sentinel""

Ava's father is so proud to reopen Ursula's Funland. But when creepy incidents threaten to shut down the park, Ava is determined to save the park for her dad. Ava enters the Hall of Mirrors with her friend, but she doesn't leave with him. Is he a ghost? Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated to state standards. Spellbound is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO.

Chris Creighton, 17, is surprised to learn that in appearance, he resembles a pair of identical twins, Alex and Max, separated since birth. Alex, abandoned by his mother, has followed a dark path—violence, drug trafficking, murder. Max, adopted by a prominent family, is a hero on the high school basketball court. The Hall of Mirrors at the amusement park becomes the focus of where Chris and Max confront Alex. With identical images of the three swirling on all sides, Alex threatens them both. Chris has to find a way to save himself and Max from the catastrophe Alex has planned for them.