Local Child

Summer is around the corner, and Little League first baseman, Billy Kramer, is looking forward to playing another year with the LA Southgate Sharks. His plans are uprooted when his mother announces an unexpected move to rural Bennington, Nebraska. Billy's world is turned upside down.

One boy’s invented word becomes a phenomenon beyond his control in bestselling and award-winning author Andrew Clements’s hilarious classic children’s story about creative thought and the power of language. Is Nick Allen a troublemaker? He really just likes to liven things up at...

Ace basketball player, T.D. Lake, is about to break the school record for the all-time highest scoring player. He is good-really good. But with untamed talent comes arrogance. With plenty of games left in the season, T.D. knows breaking the record will be easy for him to do. However, T.D.'s life takes several unexpected twists and turns before he approaches the final game of his middle school career.

Written in 1930, Coronado's Children was one of J. Frank Dobie's first books, and the one that helped gain him national prominence as a folklorist. In it, he recounts the tales and legends of those hardy souls who searched for buried treasure in the Southwest following in the footsteps of that earlier gold seeker, the Spaniard Coronado. This is the tale-spinning Dobie at his best, dealing with subjects as irresistible as ghost stories and haunted houses.

What if the one thing you wanted most was waiting for you on the other side of the glass? Mark and Julia Hale’s marriage is fracturing under the crushing weight of infertility. Desperate to distract his wife from her profound grief, Mark buys a stunning antique mirror from a local yard sale. But this is no ordinary piece of silvered glass. Soon, Julia begins to see more than her own reflection. She sees a fully furnished nursery. And inside that nursery is a little boy who looks right at her and calls her "Mama." As Julia’s dangerous obsession deepens, Mark uncovers the terrifying truth...

Colt, a skilled junior golfer, has one huge problem…he falls apart when playing in front of a crowd. He thinks he might have found the solution to his golfing issues when a mysterious man moves into his Palm Springs neighborhood. Colt sets out with his two best friends to convince the man to be Colt’s new golf coach. Once they meet Pro Kitchen, they find out there is something special about this new neighbor.

Jacoby Howard was the star quarterback, and I was the middle linebacker who was going to stop him from scoring. I glanced up at the scoreboard; it read :03; 21-17. Jacoby had to go through me to win the game. My teeth clenched as I crouched, ready to surge forward.

It's finally here: the year of the Golden Puck tournament—eighth-grade hockey's Super Bowl. Superstar Caleb Geiger has one goal in mind: bringing the Golden Puck back to Huron County for the first time ever. With Caleb and his friends—the Frozen Five—leading the way, the Barn Burners have a real shot at the trophy. But there's a catch…Bobby "Bladebreaker" Hall, Caleb's number one rival, is joining their school and traveling hockey team. Although Caleb knows Bobby improves their chances of winning, he struggles to share the spotlight with his former enemy.

Football star "Tank" Armstrong has one goal: win another championship. But when the new kid, Marco Santiago, claims to be a football player, Tank and his teammates find it hard to believe. Linebacker Biff Taylor invites Marco to practice on the football field to embarrass him and eventually Tank joins in.

Told through "moments of despair, heartbreak, laughter, and triumph" (Kirkus), this "inspiring" (Booklist) and "hopeful" (School Library Journal) memoir tells the true story of how a modern teen girl and her Holocaust-survivor friend fought against hate to create change. In 2018...

A little girl has vanished...can a K-9 team find her? Preschool teacher Lydia Caldwell’s peaceful day in the Rockies becomes her most harrowing nightmare when she’s pushed over a mountain ledge and her three-year-old daughter is abducted. Lydia must now entrust her life and her child’s...

On the lonely coast of a young America, the sea gives...and the sea takes. Young Irish immigrant Molly McGwinn spends her nights holding a lantern high above the dunes. Guiding ships toward the rocks where they will shatter, spilling their bounty on the shore. The wreckage feeds the small, desperate world she lives in, and Molly has learned the hard way that survival is worth any sin. But when she meets Nathan Fortescue, a young English shipping merchant dreaming of an honest future, Molly begins to imagine a different life—one built not on wreckage, but on hope. Yet the sea keeps its ...

Searching For The Truth - Laura Scott A K-9 on a gunman’s trail will uncover a sinister scheme. Officer Autumn Riley and her K-9, Bear, are jolted awake in the middle of the night by an intruder — and just barely escape the shots fired their way. When rancher Jordan Clarke, who has been...

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Defending The Child Caught in a mountain blizzard...with a child to protect. After Marielle Coleman’s foster son witnesses his mother’s murder, he becomes a killer’s next target. Escaping into a raging Montana snowstorm, Marielle and her little boy hide at a remote camp — and...

Would you like to bring in more money with your books? Get tips to selling your books at local events from Angela Castillo, an award-winning, Amazon best-selling author. What are the benefits to selling locally? Titles can get 'lost in the millions' on Amazon. Local booths give people the opportunity to experience your creation in person. Many people would rather buy a book as a gift than toys or other items. People love to buy books signed by the author. Local booths are a great way to gauge an audience and see reader reaction first hand. Little to no competition at most events.Angela ...

What happens in the Ocean State in the winter? Find out in this fun tour around a snow covered Little Rhody.

The Space Zoo Patrol is an elite team of animals that live and work in a massive space station above the Earth, called the Space Zoo 1. The Space Zoo Patrol is a wildly fun group that solves problems, invents cool technical gizmos, and occasionally saves the Earth by using science. NASA meets MacGyver meets the National Zoo!

When Julia Scully was seven years old, her father committed suicide, and she and her sister were sent to an orphanage. Julia sought comfort in the rituals of the orphanage - learning to knit, roller-skating after dinner, listening to One Man's Family on the radio - and tried to adapt. But two years later, emotionally damaged by the isolation and brutality of the orphanage, the girls followed their mother to the near-wilderness of the gold-mining territory north of Nome, Alaska.

The spirit of an ancient witch haunts the woods outside Millsboro, Delaware. For two hundred years children have heard warnings about the old woman who would steal you away if you roamed her woods. What if the stories are true? What if she's still out there? Gifted child psychic Maggie Mumford is sure she is and is determined to stop her. But what would you do if you lost your child? It's a terrible question to even consider. Mollie Kehonk had to face a furture without her daughters in it. When the opportunity to snatch them back from the cold hand of death requires her to turn her back on ...