There are many special helpers for people with disabilities. These special helpers include guide dogs, wheelchairs, walkers, video phones, prosthetic limbs, and more.
Celebrating Holidays! Arizona learns the best gifts are those made from the heart. Arizona and Ollie create New Years resolutions. Arizona and her family find a way to thank their grocery store's customers at Thanksgiving. Stories by Lissa Rovetch.
Tally has been transformed from a repellant ugly to a supermodel pretty. The good, the bad, the pretty, the ugly. Tally's seen it all.
Now, finally, she's a special. A super-amped fighting machine. (Think Carrie-Anne Moss (aka Trinity) from The Matrix. Her mission is to keep the uglies down and the pretties stupid. To maintain order in a world built on carefully engineered perfection. But Tally's never been good at playing by the rules...
Starring the special bond between sisters throughout history, this fun and inspiring biography collection from author Aura Lewis is perfect for fans of Rad American Women A-Z and the Women in Art/Science/Sports series.
Sisters are spectacular! They can be your biggest cheerleaders, your most trusted confidants, and your much-needed fashion advisors (as long as they’re not stealing your clothes!).
But sisterhood can also be complex: full of rivalry, jealousy, and not-so-friendly competition. From pop culture sensations like the Kardashians/Jenners to civil rights activists Coretta Scott King and Edythe Scott Bagley to tennis superstars Venus and Serena Williams, these sisters—and so many others throughout history—have not only impacted art, culture, and society, but also illustrate the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood.
At the end of the day, whether you’re mortal enemies or best friends, spectacular sisters will always have your back. Share this book at home or in the classroom. It's a great source for capsule biographies of a wide variety of powerful women.
Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.
Four more of David Walliams’ side-splitting stories on one spectacular CD! Read by the number-one bestselling author himself.
Thirty-nine minutes of side-splitting stories for the very young, hilariously read by David Walliams. This unabridged compilation includes:
BOOGIE BEAR
Up at the North Pole, a big furry polar bear is swimming, fishing and eating. But when she nods off and finds herself far from home, she thinks things can’t get any worse.
But they can….
Much worse!
GERONIMO
Meet Geronimo – the baby penguin who has one dream and one dream only – and that is to fly!
But everyone knows penguins can’t fly…or can they?
With a little help from his dad and friends, baby Geronimo discovers that even the wildest of dreams can come true.
THE CREATURE CHOIR
There’s more than one star of the show…In fact, there’s a whole choir of them!
Warble the walrus loves to sing.
Unfortunately, she is not very good at it! And when her atrocious warbling causes an avalanche, the other walruses leave her all alone.
But when you sing like no-one is listening, sometimes, they start to hear you…
LITTLE MONSTERS
Howler is a small werewolf with a big problem. He is just not scary! And that makes him the odd one out at Monster School…
But when Howler finds some new friends, he discovers that being the odd one out might just make him the coolest one of all…
Eli, a longed-for child, is born to David and Kathy Coolman. David and Kathy are absolutely overjoyed about their new son.
However, as Eli grows and develops, sadly he also develops an unexpected speech impediment. His parents are at a loss about how to help him. To get Eli through the hardships and traumas of his speech difficulties, not to mention all the unfortunate accompanying bullying and teasing from the other students, David and Kathy take Eli to a series of speech therapists.
In Eli's later childhood years, many other people come to his aid during his most troubling times, including his dear cousin, Sally, some very concerned and thoughtful teachers, and a few new friends that Eli has made, during his hurtful yet empowering journey.
They are outcasts. Hal, Stig, and the others - they are the boys the others want no part of. Skandians, as any reader of Ranger's Apprentice could tell you, are known for their size and strength. Not these boys. Yet that doesn't mean they don't have skills. And courage - which they will need every ounce of to do battle at sea against the other bands, the Wolves and the Sharks, in the ultimate race. The icy waters make for a treacherous playing field . . . especially when not everyone thinks of it as playing.
John Flanagan, author of the international phenomenon Ranger's Apprentice, creates a new cast of characters to populate his world of Skandians and Araluens, a world millions of young readers around the world have come to know and admire. Full of seafaring adventures and epic battles, Book 1 of The Brotherband Chronicles is sure to thrill readers of Ranger's Apprentice while enticing a whole new generation just now discovering the books.
When Nadia's family moves to Captive's Sound, she instantly realizes there's more to the place than meets the eye. Descended from witches, Nadia can sense that a spell has been cast over the tiny Rhode Island town-a sickness infecting everyone and everything in it. The magic at work is darker and more powerful than anything she's come across and has sunk its claws most deeply into Mateo . . . her rescuer, her friend, and the guy she yearns to get closer to even as he pushes her away.
Mateo has lived in Captive's Sound his entire life, shadowed by small-town gossip and his family's tormented past. Every generation, the local legends say, one member of the family goes mad, claiming to know the future before descending into insanity. When the strange dreams Mateo has been having of rescuing a beautiful girl from a car accident actually come true, he knows he's doomed.
Despite the forces pulling them apart, Nadia and Mateo must work together to break the chains of his terrible family curse, and to prevent a coming disaster that even now threatens the entire town, including Nadia's family, her newfound friends, and her own life. Shimmering with magic and mystery, New York Times bestselling author Claudia Gray's new novel depicts a dark and unforgettable world of witches, curses, buried secrets, and star-crossed romance.
A blind girl and a unicorn in a world where magic and reality merge together. Can Laura save the Wild Ones and take them to the safety of the Bright Wilderness?
Laura is blind, but though she cannot see, she is an acutely perceptive child. As soon as she climbs onto the unicorn's back she is hurled into a wild and magical world. Though a contemporary child, living in a contemporary setting, Spellhorn and the Wild Ones see Laura as their leader and they know that only through Laura can they reach the safety of the Bright Wilderness. But can the unicorns lead Laura back home to her own world?
Powerful and moving, a delicious blend of fantasy and reality.
Although Laurel has come to accept her true identity as a faerie, she refuses to turn her back on her human life and especially her boyfriend, David to return to the faerie world.
But when she is summoned to Avalon, Laurel's feelings for the charismatic faerie sentry Tamani are undeniable. She is forced to make a choice; a choice that could break her heart.
Kylie is jealous when her best friend, Myra, befriends the new girl in class, Rena Morningstar. Over time Kylie realizes that she and her best friend can be friends with others without it threatening her friendship with Myra.
