Flower School

Wiska Wildflower is relieved when she makes friends with Cleobelle and Primrose on her first day at Inkcap's Academy. They love Wiska's drawings and ask her to help them design matching outfits for a special fashion show in Spellbrooke City. But the more Wiska gets to know her new friends, the more she feels she must hide her true self and follow their rules. Can Wiska find the bravery she needs to get her creative spark back and discover true friendship?

Four Junie B. Jones stories in one collection brings four times the laughs! Includes: Junie B. Jones is (almost) a Flower Girl Junie B. is tired of everyone treating her like a baby. Too bad she wasn't picked to be flower girl at her aunt Flo's wedding. Then she could really show everyone how...

Step back in time and hear my parents tell how things used to be back in simpler days before the internet and smartphones. Hear Dad tell about growing up on a farm in Cleburne County, Alabama, when running water meant you had to run and get it. Ride on a troop ship with him to Europe, not knowing what he would face in Nazi Germany. Find out what it was like to be right there in the middle of the sheer joy and mad celebrations when the war in Europe ended. Hear Mom tell about the hurts, fears and joys of raising her two children from the moments they were born until the oldest begins school....

I'll never let a boy distract me. I promised myself that. But that was before Tate. Before the biggest pop star on the planet took an interest in me. Before private planes and secret dates and lyrics meant for me alone. There's so much I don't know. Like why he left music. Where he goes when we're not together. What dark past he's hiding. But when we kiss, the future feels far away. And now I'm not sure what I want.

Snow Flower has made a magical new friend, Nzui, a talking black panther. Deep in the forests of Cameroon, she and her Mamie Marguerite live together and help Nzui heal his hurt leg. Snow and her friend, Remi, saved him from a hunter’s trap one day in the jungle. Nzui is a kind and wise panther and always helps Snow when she is in need. At school, Snow’s friend Kia wanders off into the jungle. What will Snow, Remi, and Nzui do to bring her back safely?

Book Summary: At Nature School Exploring the Alphabet At Nature School is a beautifully written, rhyming children’s book that takes young readers on an adventure of learning and discovery in the great outdoors. The story follows a group of children who attend a special nature school, where the natural world becomes their classroom. Through playful and engaging verses, the book introduces key lessons about plants, animals, and the environment. Readers learn about the life cycle of an acorn turning into a mighty oak, the importance of respecting wildlife like bluebirds and bumblebees, and ...

Seventeen-year-old Viola Kent likes being invisible. Well, not literally, but she's content being a loner, reading her books, and hanging out with the animals at the shelter. She just wants to keep her head down and get through her senior year at Durham High. Driving Dare Frost to school every day wasn't part of the plan. And when Viola finds out her dad recruited Dare, his number one player, to be her friend? Her inner Slytherin demands revenge. The solution: Get Dare to be her fake boyfriend.

Bridget doesn't have dreams. Growing up across the tracks in the 50s and 60s, her life's a little tough having to take care of family and raise siblings. But it isn't all bad. She's adored by a throng at school, not for anything great, just for her flower child ways, occult knowledge, and listening. She can do telekinesis and tell when the phone’s going to ring, but her real gift is listening to boys concerned about going to Vietnam. Things explode when she loses her virginity at fifteen to the lead singer of a garage band. She even begins to dream of a crossroads ranch house to assist ...

Can two teachers learn God’s lessons in love, or will fear and doubt keep them apart? Sports teacher Fraser Maclean has worked with Sarah Browne for eight months at their Edinburgh high school. She's not involved with anyone else, and she seems to enjoy his company, so why won’t the pretty trainee teacher see him outside school? Despite their attraction, he has to take no for an answer. Besides, he wants a simple, uncomplicated life, and he suspects Sarah is far from uncomplicated. Sarah’s struggled to control her feelings for Fraser and keep him at arm’s length. He’s kind, ...

Flower is a book of realistic admissions, likes, dislikes, memories and no-brainer observations, treating personal truth as unavailable – something that must be made up and convincing. Taking cues from confessional literature, his daughter’s improvised games, poor internet writing and shitty AI, Ed Atkins, in his first work of non-fiction, equivocates between inanity and divinity, ease and pain, sentimentality and sterility.