Gemmy

Gemmy
Author: Edward Holzman
Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2019-06-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1644717603

In this beautifully illustrated and magical story, Gemmy, a sweet young Kangaroo is born into an idyllic world where Kangaroos flourish. Gemmy is perfect except she was born without a pouch - a big deal for Kangaroos! As she nears adolescence, she is shunned by some and teased by others in her herd. This makes her very sad. On an otherwise normal day, through a series of unexpected events, Gemmy finds herself hundreds of miles from home in the faraway land of the Australian Outback. She finds herself alone - totally alone, in a new and incredibly dangerous place. But Gemmy is not doomed - far from it, she soon meets her new and very colorful friends, both animal and human, and they unite as The Three. They soon discover a plan, a human plan, to destroy her homeland. It must be stopped... Gathering some unlikely allies along the way, the mission takes The Three on an exciting, action packed, fraught with danger adventure - all against seemingly insurmountable odds! Will she succeed, and how? Will Gemmy save her family, her precious homeland, and the habitat of hundreds of kindred spirit critters? "A great story! I loved it! "Heartwarming and compelling- full of great characters, positive life lessons and humor- all told in the context of thrilling Action and Adventure Appealing to all genders and age groups. A straight out of the gate classic!" Paula Jameson-Whitney, Assistant Superintendent Educational Services, Ret. National School District

Therapeutic Storytelling

Therapeutic Storytelling
Author: Susan
Publisher: Hawthorn Press
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2014-05-02
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1907359494

Working with imaginative journeys and the mystery and magic of metaphor, the author has developed the art of therapeutic storytelling for children's challenging behaviour.

Blueroo’s Adventures

Blueroo’s Adventures
Author: Rose Chiello
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 42
Release: 2013-06-25
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1483651312

One day, Koala Bella was sound asleep on top of a gum tree. Suddenly a thunderous noise awakened her, almost knocking her out of the tree! Hundreds of kangaroos hopped madly below. She noticed a horrible burning smell in the air, and birds screeching above. There was a feeling of panic all around. Koala Bella was getting scared — she couldn’t move. This is a story about a bush fire .Where a young Joey called Blueroo, fell out of his mother’s pouch and was lost and alone; that’s when he met Koala Bella. She saved him. Bella knew she had to find Blueroo’s mother, as he would be getting very hungry soon. Bella loved eating her gum leaves, but had no idea what kangaroos ate. She gave Blueroo some leaves to eat also. The smoke had cleared so she could see further away. Now Bella was trying to think of a plan to get Blueroo back to his family. On one of his adventures Blueroo met a beautiful young female roo, her hair was bright red and her name was Scarlet. One day Blueroo went to visit Scarlet, with her parent’s permission and they were allowed to go for a hop. All the bush birds were invited to a party, there was going to be a big gathering. Koala Bella and her family had also being invited; there were going to be lots of flowers, cakes and dancing. There were also a lot of tears, some people were going away, and there was a little sadness, but a lot of hope for love. There would be a trip to the Blue Mountains. Blueroo’s Adventure is about a family of Kangaroos going for a picnic out for the day when suddenly the fires around them are so intense and frightening that they try to hop away from the fire and smoke. A baby joey is lost scared and frightened; the parents don’t realise till later that he is lost, the little Joey is crying when Koala Bella hears him and brings him to safety. When they go back into the bush to find him, much to his mother’s surprise, the joey has been named Blueroo by Koala Bella because he was so blue when she found him. Mrs Roo and her husband and brothers are very grateful to Koala Bella for saving their baby. They became friends for life. A few months later the Joey is missing Koala Bella, but most of all the adventure he had when she took him from the top of the trees, while escaping from the horrible bush fires. So Blueroo pestered his mother until she agreed to go and visit Koala Bella again; just as any child does until they get their way. When Blueroo got older he wanted to go and visit Koala Bella again, his mother gives in but warns him to come home before dark. He promises her he will and off he goes. On the way he meets Scarlet, a little red roo and becomes friends. He asks her mother if she can go with him to visit Koala Bella. Her mother says yes on one condition, that he brings her back before dark or her father will be very angry. Blueroo gives her his word and off they go. On the way Blueroo tells Scarlet why he calls Koala Bella his fairy godmother, and how she saved him from death. “She is not really a fairy but I call her that because she rescued me”. On the way back they bump into a young Greyroo, he is furious when he finds out that Scarlet was allowed to go with Blue roo, as he was always shooed away by her mother. Greyroo leaves but in his mind was already plotting a way of getting Scarlet back. So accidents happen. The minister, who is Scarlet’s uncle, gets very sick. Blueroo has proposed, the wedding date had been set, and all are worried that the minister would die or be too sick to perform the marriage. They find out that Greyroo went to the church, and was seen to replace the water at the ceremony, so blueroo asked his bush friends the birds to keep an eye on Greyroo until the minister got better. The owls watched Greyroo night and day. The minister got better, and Scarlet’s mother and Blueroo’s mother got busy.

Stories to Light the Night

Stories to Light the Night
Author: Susan Perrow
Publisher: Hawthorn Press
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2021-02-09
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1912480484

More than 90 healing stories for telling during difficult times, written and collated by acclaimed therapeutic storyteller Susan Perrow, including 30 contributions from different cultures and countries worldwide. The book covers issues of grief, bereavement, separation, and loss. Chapters include: Loss of a Loved One; Loss of Place; Loss of Family Connection; Loss of a Pet; Loss of Health and Well-being; Other Kinds of Loss; Environmental Grief and Loss; Cycles of Life and Change; plus Patterns and Templates for Extension Activities (provided for some of the stories).

Parties

Parties
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 204
Release: 1928
Genre: Entertaining
ISBN:

The Starship Mantis

The Starship Mantis
Author: Rod Little
Publisher: Starbase One
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2024-07-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

The Starship Praihawk meets the Starship Mantis in a battle of three sides. In the 3rd voyage through the Angry Galaxy, Sam, Bohai & Teak, now with Kirin, Tenken and the robot Max, cruise through a deadly galaxy to explore new resources on their journey back to Earth. On the way through a dark corner of the cosmos, they are attacked by multiple sides of a war that has raged in this sector for years. And then a great ship stops them cold. Shaped like a praying mantis, it is crewed by an alien species with technology far beyond anything seen before. The crew of the Praihawk must play two sides against each other and try to rescue a cargo ship to save their own lives. Until they realize what the cargo ship holds! They are caught in battle once more, this time against a force more advanced than any they have encountered before. To escape, they must land on a storm-ridden planet. This is no accident. They have been steered here from their first entry into the dark galaxy. Something needs them on the cruel planet. Everything rests on the mysterious cargo and the mission to save it. The third voyage through the Angry Galaxy will bring the Praihawk nose to nose with the most advanced society and the most feared ship in the cosmos. The Starship Mantis 244 pages - Angry Galaxy Book 3

The Terrible

The Terrible
Author: Yrsa Daley-Ward
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2018-06-05
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0143132628

Winner of the PEN Ackerley Prize • Longlisted for the 2019 PEN Open Book Award “Devastating and lyrical.” —The New York Times “Suspenseful and affecting.” —The New Yorker From the celebrated poet behind bone, a collection of poems that tells a story of coming-of-age, uncovering the cruelty and beauty of the world, going under, and finding redemption Through her signature sharp, searing poems, this is the story of Yrsa Daley-Ward and all the things that happened. “Even the terrible things. And God, there were terrible things.” It’s about her childhood in the northwest of England with her beautiful, careworn mother Marcia; the man formerly known as Dad (half fun, half frightening); and her little brother Roo, who sees things written in the stars. It’s also about the surreal magic of adolescence, about growing up and discovering the power and fear of sexuality, about pitch-gray days of pills and powder and connection. It’s about damage and pain, but also joy. With raw intensity and shocking honesty, The Terrible is a collection of poems that tells the story of what it means to lose yourself and find your voice. “You may not run away from the thing that you are because it comes and comes and comes as sure as you breathe.”

Half a Man

Half a Man
Author: Tony Jacobs
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 125
Release: 2016-07-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1524515299

Half a man is a simple story that highlights the true strengths of great mateship. It also endeavours to recall the struggle that returning soldiers faced after the Great war and describes the challenges, the way of life and the ways of the Australian bush in the 1920s and glories in the absolute beauty of the Murrindindi valley through all of the seasons. It is also a love story and tells of Jessies great love and compassion for her Peter, her wounded husband and of the healing power of Tims love for Penny

How I Became a Spy

How I Became a Spy
Author: Deborah Hopkinson
Publisher: Yearling
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2021-01-26
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0399557091

From the award-winning author of The Great Trouble comes a story of espionage, survival, and friendship during World War II Bertie Bradshaw never set out to become a spy. He never imagined traipsing around war-torn London, solving ciphers, practicing surveillance, and searching for a traitor to the Allied forces. He certainly never expected that a strong-willed American girl named Eleanor would play Watson to his Holmes (or Holmes to his Watson, depending on who you ask). But when a young woman goes missing, leaving behind a coded notebook, Bertie is determined to solve the mystery. With the help of Eleanor and his friend David, a Jewish refugee--and, of course, his trusty pup, Little Roo--Bertie must decipher the notebook in time to stop a double agent from spilling the biggest secret of all to the Nazis. From the author of The Great Trouble, this suspenseful WWII adventure reminds us that times of war call for bravery, brains and teamwork from even the most unlikely heroes.

Winnie the Pooh

Winnie the Pooh
Author: A. A. Milne
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2009-09-03
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 110115893X

Happy 90th birthday, to one of the world's most beloved icons of children's literature, Winnie-the-Pooh! The adventures of Pooh and Piglet, Kanga and tiny Roo, Owl, Rabbit, and the ever doleful Eeyore are timeless treasures of childhood. In this beautiful edition of Winnie-the-Pooh, each of Ernest H. Shepard's beloved original illustrations has been meticulously hand painted. Bright in color and elegant in design, this lovely volume of Milne's classic tales welcomes friends old and new into the most enchanted of places, the Hundred Acre Wood.