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Backyard nature is one of the first science experiences young children have. Getting them outside to play and interact with nature is an important step in nurturing a lifetime of enjoyment in the outdoors. Little Beth romps through her personal playground showing how she learns the proper names and characteristics of her bird friends. Her antics come alive in the delightful illustrations. In the future series she will introduce readers to her backyard mammals, face her fears of the dark, learn about habitat and discover the best place for her to live.

In Book 2 of this inspiring series, we discover the power of friendship and the gold mine of positive energy that’s hiding inside all of us. There have been many characters created to help children understand why these two forces exist. The Friendesahns and Oily Spoilies are the new beings from outer space visiting Earth. We hope you’ll enjoy their on-going stories.

This is a story about an angry man who goes in to a school with a gun and hurts people. It is also a story about those who survived and how they cope.

Phyllis can't convince Uncle Phil to get out of bed to make his prediction on Groundhog Day. When Uncle Phil realizes he has missed all the signs of an early spring, he knows it's time to retire and pass on the title of Punxsutawney Phil. Only this time, it's Punxsutawney Phyllis!

Harry Yakamoto grew up in Seven Cedars, California playing baseball, going to school, and working at his family’s restaurant. As a young Japanese American, he faced discrimination daily. But when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, his life would change forever. Forced to move to a relocation center in the desert of California, Harry and his family have to start a new life behind barbed wire and guarded watchtowers. Follow Harry Yakamoto in this World War II story as he learns to live through difficult conditions in a Japanese-American internment camp.

In this book, Ms. Roth argues that there are four seasons of empowerment for adolescent girls. Sadly no adolescent girl can simply wake up one day, snap her fingers, and be empowered to tackle the world and all the forces that exist inside and outside. Becoming empowered to be who we are can be truly difficult. This book consists of a step-by-step guide to help adolescent girls achieve self-empowerment.

When a baby is born, he or she has certain characteristics: eye color, hair color, personality. Even though some characteristics may be the same, like hair color, each baby also is different from the others. We love each child for who he or she is, not for what they look like or for the way they smile.

In his picture book, SILENT VOICE, Author Barry Rudner has written a story about children that may look much like other children, but they think differently and do not enjoy the things most children enjoy, such as swinging or playing hide and go seek or even laughing. Some children seem to live in a world that only they can see, and it’s nothing like the world of the other children.

2014 IPPY Gold Medal for Juvenile Fiction --Independent Publisher Book Awards

He was the sole survivor when his village was massacred. The boy spends his days alone in the woods, feeling more of a kinship with animals than with the people who took him in but never really accepted him. THE BOY WHO RAN is a middle grade novel about a Native American orphan trying to find a place in the world. The story is set six thousand years ago in the mid-archaic period of North American history.

Meet the Friendeshans, a lovable race of beings who spread friendship and positive energy throughout the galaxy! In his first book of an inspiring new series, the Friendeshans encounter the Oily Spoilies, creatures that thrive on meanness and negativity. What will happen when an Oily Spoily spy gets aboard the Friendeshans' ship?!

As the series unfolds, the friendeshans will travel to Earth, where they will work their pozzi-power on our planet, unseen by humans. For any child who has ever been bullied or picked on, the Friendeshans are like loyal, invisible friends they can carry with them in their imaginations. With the Friendeshans around, every child has a friend!