Family Revolution

In a small village called Yellow Stone, below the mountains of southeastern China, Sisi is a model sister, daughter, and student. She brews tea for her grandfather in the morning, leads recitations at school as class monitor, and helps care for her youngest brother, Da. But when students are selected during a school ceremony to join the prestigious Red Guard, Sisi is passed over. Worse, she is shamed for her family’s past - they are former landowners who have no place in the new Communist order.

La guida gentile non è essere sempre perfetti e nemmeno essere sempre accondiscendenti: è porsi ai nostri bambini con onestà e rispetto della loro integrità, è scegliere di saper essere piuttosto che di saper fare, di avventurarsi nel mare tempestoso delle emozioni e attraversarlo, insieme a loro, con empatia, e usare queste emozioni come guida per comprendere e conciliare i bisogni di tutti.

Eighteen-year-old Emma Harper misses her brother. Two years ago, the bad news - MIA - killed a piece of her heart. Her father ignoring her dreams of building spaceships and demanding she become an accountant killed another. Lost and rudderless, Emma drifts through a life she doesn't want with friends who pretend to care. When a bizarre event sends her sailing across the universe, she'll have to decide what matters most to her. Life or death, the universe doesn't care. But does Emma?

The editors of the Encyclopaedia Britannica are pleased to present The French Revolution Series. Here you will learn about the grandeur and opulence of the French régime, as well as its chaotic downfall and the new order that rose from its ashes. In this edition, the editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica examine the lives of Marie Antoinette, her friends, family members, and closest allies.

Jo McReynolds is one crazy Mother Hunter.... After finally defeating the Vampire queen, Jo has one more important task to complete--finding her mother. There's just one problem. Cadence is somewhere inside of the Blood Moon Portal, a place Jo has never been before, and she has to rely on Christian Henry--no one's favorite Guardian--to help her find her mom. Will Jo and her team be able to find Cadence? And if they do, will she tell her mom the truth about the Guardian Leader? This new series, Blood of the Vampire Hunter, continues the story from The Clandestine Saga with some brand new ...