Ethan's Stepmom

Ethan's Stepmom
Author: Miller
Publisher: Carson-Dellosa Publishing
Total Pages: 28
Release: 2018-07-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1641567333

Book Features: • 24 pages, 8 inches x 8 inches • Ages 5-8, Grades K-2 leveled readers • Simple, easy-to-read pages with illustrations • Features a simple vocabulary list • Includes reading and teaching tips The Importance of Reading: Introduce hard and important topics to your child with Ethan's Stepmom: A Story About Stepparents. The 24-page book features pictures, simple language, and reading tips to practice early reading comprehension skills. Hands-On Reading: Ethan misses his mom, but he now has a new stepmother. Follow along as Ethan discovers how having a stepmom can be special, too! Features: More than an insightful story about grief, divorce, and parents remarrying, this kids book also includes a vocabulary list as well as reading and teaching tips for additional interaction and engagement on the topics discussed in the story. Leveled Books: Vibrant illustrations and leveled text work together to engage your child and promote reading comprehension skills. The leveled book engages k-grade 2 readers with new vocabulary and relevant topics like loss, divorce, and stepparents. Why Rourke Educational Media: Since 1980, Rourke Publishing Company has specialized in publishing engaging and diverse non-fiction and fiction books for children in a wide range of subjects that support reading success on a level that has no limits.

Swarm

Swarm
Author: Scott Westerfeld
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2016-09-27
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1481443410

X-Men meets Marissa Meyer’s Renegades when New York Times bestselling author of the Uglies series Scott Westerfeld teams up with award-winning authors Margo Lanagan and Deborah Biancotti in the second book of an explosive new trilogy about six teens with unique abilities. They thought they’d already faced their toughest fight. But there’s no relaxing for the reunited Zeroes. These six teens with unique abilities have taken on bank robbers, drug dealers, and mobsters. Now they’re trying to lay low so they can get their new illegal nightclub off the ground. But the quiet doesn’t last long when two strangers come to town, bringing with them a whole different kind of crowd-based chaos. And hot on their tails is a crowd-power even more dangerous and sinister. Up against these new enemies, every Zero is under threat. Mob is crippled by the killing-crowd buzz—is she really evil at her core? Flicker is forced to watch the worst things a crowd can do. Crash’s conscience—and her heart—get a workout. Anon and Scam must both put family loyalties on the line for the sake of survival. And Bellwether’s glorious-leader mojo deserts him. Who’s left to lead the Zeroes into battle against a new, murderous army?

Zeroes

Zeroes
Author: Scott Westerfeld
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 576
Release: 2015-09-29
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1481443380

X-Men meets Marissa Meyer’s Renegades when New York Times bestselling author of the Uglies series Scott Westerfeld teams up with award-winning authors Margo Lanagan and Deborah Biancotti for this explosive trilogy filled with “cinematic nonstop action,” (Booklist) about six teens with unique abilities. Don’t call them heroes. But these six California teens have powers that set them apart. Take Ethan, a.k.a. Scam. He’s got a voice inside him that’ll say whatever you want to hear, whether it’s true or not. Which is handy, except when it isn’t—like when the voice starts gabbing in the middle of a bank robbery. The only people who can help are the other Zeroes, who aren’t exactly best friends these days. Enter Nate, a.k.a. Bellwether, the group’s “glorious leader.” After Scam’s SOS, he pulls the scattered Zeroes back together. But when the rescue blows up in their faces, the Zeroes find themselves propelled into whirlwind encounters with ever more dangerous criminals. At the heart of the chaos they find Kelsie, who can take a crowd in the palm of her hand and tame it or let it loose as she pleases. Filled with high-stakes action and drama, Zeroes unites three powerhouse authors for the opening installment of a thrilling new series.

Lizzie Mcguire: Episode Guide

Lizzie Mcguire: Episode Guide
Author: Heidi Hurst
Publisher: Volo
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2004-11-15
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780786846634

It's the totally gotta-have-it book for every Lizzie McGuire fan! The guide includes summaries of all 65 Lizzie McGuire television episodes plus an 8-page full-color photo insert. It even includes cool trivia, actor bios, and a "Can You Spot the Bloopers?" challenge. A perfect companion to the Lizzie McGuire television series compilations released by Buena Vista Home Video on DVD and VHS.

The American

The American
Author: Amal A. Usman
Publisher: SuperNovel(HK)Co.,Limited
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2022-06-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

This is a story about two people who knew how to express the word hate more than anything else to one another. Ethan hates Adina more than anything in the world and would give anything to see her perish into thin air. While on the other hand Adina could careless about Ethan other than the fact that she won't let him walk all over her with his arrogant character. What happens when a big incident changes all that. How do these two different people deal with a feeling that is supposed to be forbidden to feel for the each other. Read to find out how the person you hate the most is the one person you can love the most.

A Year Without Mom

A Year Without Mom
Author: Dasha Tolstikova
Publisher: Groundwood Books Ltd
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2015-09-24
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1554986931

Now available in paperback, Dasha Tolstikova’s acclaimed graphic novel 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 and everyone she loves. Dasha Tolstikova’s major talent is on full display in this gorgeous and subtly illustrated graphic novel. Key Text Features map Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.7 Analyze how visual and multimedia elements contribute to the meaning, tone, or beauty of a text (e.g., graphic novel, multimedia presentation of fiction, folktale, myth, poem). CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.3 Describe how a particular story's or drama's plot unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution.

Get a clue

Get a clue
Author: Lisa Banim
Publisher:
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2004
Genre: Detective and mystery stories
ISBN: 9780786846771

Someone is putting notes all over school with bad information and they all seemed to be written by Lizzie McGuire. Now it's up to Lizzie to find out who is framing her.

Her Christmas Offer

Her Christmas Offer
Author: Marie Johnston
Publisher: LE Publishing
Total Pages:
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

The celebrity vet is back in town. Bunny’s high school crush has returned to town just in time for the holidays. Ethan, celebrity veterinarian to the stars, has even called her with an early Christmas present: his company wants to buy out her vet clinic. Sure, the clinic’s a little dated, the staff is clamoring for a raise, and the clientele is scattering, but she can’t trust a word out of Ethan’s perfectly chiseled mouth…even if it does wicked things to her when he stops talking. Ethan’s arrogance drove Bunny away once, but twenty years hasn’t diminished his infatuation with the curvy veterinarian. This time, staying off Bunny’s naughty list will be even harder since he works for the company planning to buy her out. She thinks he’s nothing but a pretty face for a cold corporate machine. But he’s not here to dismantle her life’s work, he’s here to save it, because without a Christmas miracle, her clinic won’t survive another year. The clock is ticking down, and not just until Santa’s arrival. Ethan needs an answer from Bunny before Christmas. A yes means putting coal in the stockings of all her employees, but a no means Ethan’s bosses will spend the new year driving her business into the ground—and she’ll have to give up the only man she’s ever wanted for Christmas.

Free Lunch

Free Lunch
Author: Rex Ogle
Publisher: WW Norton
Total Pages: 135
Release: 2019-09-10
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1324003618

Winner of the 2020 YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Award. Instead of giving him lunch money, Rex’s mom has signed him up for free meals. As a poor kid in a wealthy school district, better-off kids crowd impatiently behind him as he tries to explain to the cashier that he’s on the free meal program. The lunch lady is hard of hearing, so Rex has to shout. Free Lunch is the story of Rex’s efforts to navigate his first semester of sixth grade—who to sit with, not being able to join the football team, Halloween in a handmade costume, classmates and a teacher who take one look at him and decide he’s trouble—all while wearing secondhand clothes and being hungry. His mom and her boyfriend are out of work, and life at home is punctuated by outbursts of violence. Halfway through the semester, his family is evicted and ends up in government-subsidized housing in view of the school. Rex lingers at the end of last period every day until the buses have left, so no one will see where he lives. Unsparing and realistic, Free Lunch is a story of hardship threaded with hope and moments of grace. Rex’s voice is compelling and authentic, and Free Lunch is a true, timely, and essential work that illuminates the lived experience of poverty in America.

Here and There

Here and There
Author: Tamara Ellis Smith
Publisher: Barefoot Books
Total Pages: 35
Release: 2019-03-31
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1782857583

A young boy, Ivan, experiences the early stages of his parents’ separation and finds hope in the beauty and music of nature. This tale of personal growth will provide a much-needed mirror for children in times of change -- and an important reminder for all that there’s beauty everywhere you look.