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My name is Danielle. I'm eighteen. I've been stealing things for as long as I can remember. Dani has been trained as a thief by the best-her mother. Together, they move from town to town, targeting wealthy homes and making a living by stealing antique silver. They never stay in one place long enough to make real connections, real friends-a real life. In the beach town of Heaven, though, everything changes. For the first time, Dani starts to feel at...

There are times when only a polar bear will do. . . When Joe's parents told him the family would be moving, Joe took it in stride. Moving to a new house would be an adventure, nothing to worry about, right? But then they dropped the bomb: they weren't simply moving to a different house down the road, or even one in the same town. No, they were moving to a new country! They urge Joe to make new friends and try to fit in, not seeming to understand...

Mommy says that some things can't be said with just words . . . Sometimes you have to say it with your feet. A young girl watches her mommy proudly take to the streets to march for what she believes in. Mommy marches through the sunshine, through the rain and through the deepest snow, on her own or hand-in-hand with others, to give voice to causes that need to be heard. Inspired to join the next generation of young activists, her daughter dreams...

A delightful holiday book from beloved author Marianne Richmond, Little Bird Finds Christmas reminds us all of what's really important during the holidays. "Okay," said Little Bird. "But where do we find Christmas?" She had looked in a lot of places, and she was tired. "In your own heart," said Mama. "In my heart. In all the grateful, giving hearts. It's our thank-you to God for His gift to love us." An adorably sweet new Christmas story from...

All dead. No one survived. All dead. This morbid chant haunts seventeen-year-old Blue as she trudges through the countryside with just the clothes on her back, heading to her childhood home on the ocean. Something absolutely awful has happened, she knows it, but she doesn't know what. She can't even remember her name, so she calls herself Blue. This gripping survival story-peppered with flashbacks to bittersweet times with her boyfriend, Jake-strips...

Une belle histoire à lire dès 9 ans ! À la fête foraine, Léo, un enfant adopté après avoir été abandonné à la naissance, dépense son dernier billet sur un coup de tête pour consulter une voyante. Celle-ci lui annonce qu'il retrouvera sa mère en suivant les traces d'un ours polaire. Troublé par cette révélation, dans le plus grand secret, Léo va tenter l'aventure, accompagné par son amie Laura. Question combien délicate que celle...

We offer psycho-education books and ebooks on parenting and lifestyle interests. Our purpose is to help individuals and families address the fulfillment and complexities of life.

A Year Without Mom follows twelve-year-old Dasha through a year full of turmoil after her mother leaves for America. It is the early 1990s in Moscow, and political change is in the air. But Dasha is more worried about her own challenges as she negotiates family, friendships and school without her mother. Just as she begins to find her own feet, she gets word that she is to join her mother in America - a place that seems impossibly far from everything...

After the murder of their mother by their father, Lulu and Merry grow up living tenuous lives where Lulu denies he ever existed and Merry dutifully visits him in prison, only to find their lives on the brink of collapse when they learn that their unrepentant and manipulative father is about to be paroled.

Twelve-year-old Ella loves visiting her grandparents in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina every summer, and this year her grandfather announces they are going catfish noodling--but Ella is unsure about catching a fish with her bare hands.