Family Chapter

Book Three in the steampunk Land of Twilight Trilogy. How can the most colorful world in the universe turn hapless and gray?! That's what mystifies Sam and Lorna. Falling from the Land of Twilight, their friend Trix shows up at the discarded camper shell where Sam and Lorna are making secret plans. The Arizona desert is no place to hide. Trix and Melvin focus on reviving the Land of Realtime. Both Lorna and Sam's lives depend on it. Twilight and Earth, now interwoven, are crumbling together. How can the four friends unravel themselves and save their worlds? Things take a bad turn when a ...

Laura et Marie-Douce sont des camarades de classe. La première est populaire, tandis que la seconde se fond dans le décor. Marie-Douce admire Laura en silence et rêve de lui ressembler, mais Laura n'a pas du tout envie de lui adresser la parole.

Starke Heldin und gerissene Gegner: Pirschkunde, Jagdtechnik und Kampfkunst - bei ihrer Ausbildung auf den Inseln der bösen Tiere muss Lizard superviel lernen. Doch zum ersten Mal im Leben hat sie richtige Freunde und fühlt sich zu Hause. Hier ist sie auch sicher vor dem weißen Tiger Raj, der sich an ihr rächen will. Aber dann erhält sie einen Anruf aus New Orleans. Ihre Schwester Esmeralda sei in Gefahr und nur Lizard könne sie jetzt noch retten. Außer sich vor Angst um Esmeralda flieht Lizard heimlich in der Nacht und setzt damit alles aufs Spiel.

Your life is a story, and it’s yours to write, all the way through to the end. There are numerous decisions to be made regarding aging, illness, and end-of-life issues, but many people put off those decisions until it’s too late. We may be purposeful in planning for our lives, but we often leave the last piece, the final chapter, undefined.

When ten-year-old Liam moves house to be closer to his dementia-suffering grandma, he's thrown into an unfamiliar place, with a family that seems to be falling apart. Liam doesn't remember what his grandma was like before she became ill. He only knows the witchlike old woman who snaps and snarls and eats her birthday cards. He wants to fix it, but he can't. Walking his dog one day, Liam discovers an old stone gargoyle in a rundown church, and his life changes in impossible ways.

Genevieve the cat is on the warpath. Her human family is ignoring her, the house is filled with strange foods and unusual decorations, and a hoard of distant relatives are due to arrive any minute. The only way to bring things back to normal is to get rid of Thanksgiving altogether... but will things turn out the way Genevieve expects? Told in an accessible, easy-to-read style, this story will captivate the hearts of adults and children alike.

Ein Verräter auf den geheimen Inseln! Lizard beschleicht ein schreckliches Gefühl. Wieso taucht ihr bester Freund Taiyo nicht zum Schwimmtraining neben der Mangroveninsel auf? Ein Anruf von ihrem Begleittier Ajax, einem Seeadler, beruhigt sie nicht wirklich. Taiyo wird in geheimer Mission gebraucht - es muss also etwas Schlimmes passiert sein. Erst als Lizard die Insel verlassen und zurück nach Hause rudern will, bemerkt sie Tausende von Termiten, die um sie herumkrabbeln. Und die scheinen einen finsteren Plan auszuhecken.

Join Gem as he introduces his family. There are many feelings, emotions, and faces that we experience daily. This book seeks to assist our family to become more comfortable with their feelings. Have you ever felt or met any of these feelings before? Be sure to check in at the end with Gem, when you reach the end.

A few months ago, Dan had to make a choice. Go to Geneva with his parents for a year, board at school, or move into a house with his 22-year-old bass-playing aunt, Jacq, and her friend, Naomi. He picked Jacq's place.

Now he's doing his last year at school and trying not to spin out, trying to master calculus, and trying to pick up a few skills for surviving in the adult world. Problem is, he falls for Naomi, and things become much more confusing.

Olivia and Edward Lereux live a quiet life with their chocolate border collie Axel in a picturesque cottage flanked by Maine’s blustery cliffs, far from town and people. Outwardly, their lives appear normal, but they’re not ordinary people. The Lereux family is cursed with something that has claimed their ancestors for many years. When Ravine Lereux receives a distressing letter from her Uncle Edward, she must return to a place she swore never to return - a place that’s haunted by something, an abnormal presence she feared as a child.

After their father dies in a tragic accident, heiresses Evelyn, Georgia and Olivia Belle are left with a massive hole in their finances. With the world's media and National Crime Agency looking on, their family home, cars, and other assets are sold at auction, leaving the sisters penniless, homeless, and jobless. Shunned by their celebrity friends, the sisters must learn to fend for themselves for the first time in their lives.

Beneath a façade of palm trees and sunshine, homelessness and addiction are bubbling to the surface. It can be hard to shake the brands others place on you; Derek, currently homeless, knows this better than most. Meanwhile, 17-year-old Melissa has a new boyfriend. Her best friend hates his guts but won't say why. Melissa and Jess find themselves drawn into a battle for reconciliation between their friends. With their help, painful truths from the past stand a chance of release, and a family receives the gift of restoration.

Nine-year-old MATTY BRATTY may have flunked third grade, but America wants him to be President of the United Sates. And some rich, powerful people are begging him to be their candidate in the national U.S. presidential election. It does not matter if Matty has never worked before. Who cares if he got an F in government? Matty is a celebrity!

Zu jeder Geschichte wartet ein besonderer Inhalt, der zum Nachdenken anregt und die Entwicklung fördert. 6 wahre Kindheitsgeschichten, erzählt von Elli, Frederike, Vara, Hanna, Meike und Lara. 6 wundervolle Geschichten, mit folgenden Botschaften. Positive Psychologie und Persönlichkeitsentwicklung für Mädchen.

Empieza un nuevo curso y, mientras va creciendo el bebé en la barriga de mamá, la familia Butterfield empieza a planificar unas navidades especiales.

Another day in paradise dawns as the small tribe prepares to welcome a young child into their communal family. But after Kaimi hears a soft message from her soul, she must make a difficult life-changing decision: can she give her younger sister, Maka, the baby she truly desires? And how will she deal with the grief and loss of handing over her own child? With authenticity and solitude as her guides, Kaimi trusts even deeper and begins to see that this adoption is really a gateway to higher spiritual growth.

La vida en la jungla nunca es aburrida. Desde el momento en que nació, la curiosidad de Jasper lo ha consumido. Con su hermano Willie, hicieron nuevos amigos y aprendieron más sobre la selva amazónica. Los jóvenes se han acercado. El trabajo principal de Jasper es asegurarse de que su hermano esté a salvo, pero es más fácil decirlo que hacerlo: la jungla está llena de peligros, y si no tienen cuidado, las cosas pueden salirse de control rápidamente. Siempre hay nuevos desafíos a la vuelta de la esquina.

A story of friendship, courage and a bit of crime. Bridget wants a quiet life, including, if possible, keeping her parents out of prison. Then a boy called Menzies makes her an offer she can't refuse, and they set off on a job of their own. It's a desperate, daring plan, to rescue two kids, Jamal and Bibi, from a desert detention centre. Can Bridget and Menzies pull off their very first jail break, or will they end up behind bars too? Sometimes to help a friend, you have to dig deep.

Piper Reed and her fellow Gypsy Club members are in need of a clubhouse. Raising money to buy one proves a challenge. Piper, being the resourceful fifth grader that she is, launches her own party-planning business and gets her first job throwing young Brady's birthday celebration. But things don't go as expected on the day of the big event. Fortunately for Piper, her friends and family come to her rescue!

Eighty-five-year-old Henry Arthur Applebee has had a pretty good life. But one regret has haunted him for the last 65 years. And so, on an ordinary December morning, he boards a train from London to Edinburgh. His goal is simple: to find the woman who disappeared from his life decades earlier. But Henry isn’t the only person on a mission. Also bound for Edinburgh is troubled teen Ariel. And when the two strangers collide, what began as one humble journey will catapult them both into a whole new world.