What do you call your grandparents? Silly Yaya is a children's picture book written for children who do not call their grandparents the traditional grandma and grandpa. Instead, Silly Yaya tells the story of why "Each one (grandparent) needs their own special name. From family to family, they are not always the same." Explore the book with your child or grandchild to see if the names they call their grandparents are listed in the book. Find the special spot at the end that makes Silly Yaya a Keepsake Book.
The Sunday Dinner table is where families share stories about their week, tell bad jokes, share upcoming events, and solve problems. Everyone is talking at the same time; it's loud and full of love. Best of all, the food is always great! Join Silly Yaya's fun loving Greek/Italian blended family at the dinner table and discover their silly ways.
Perry The Sheep is searching for the Magical Rainbow. The Magical Rainbow is full of Love,Hope,and Kindness which Perry wants to spread all over the world. Perry and his friends go on many adventures and travel around the universe in search of the Magical Rainbow.
Yaya The Sheep and 19 of her super silly, furry, friends explore amazing, exciting, fun, jobs. Who do you want to be when you grow up? A hot air balloon pilot, an author, a butterfly catcher, a pastry chef, a super hero? Join Yaya and explore 17 incredible jobs.
Does Unkie Munkie live at the zoo? Explore the story as told by two year old Lu, who went to visit her uncle who she believes lives at the zoo. You'll have to decide if it's false or if it's true. And the answer to that and the ending of the story are left up to you. Read the story through and look for the clues. Parents should engage in a conversation with the reader to discuss why they think the story may or may not be true.
To help her younger sister Leen fall asleep at bedtime, YaYa describes the Sun's amazing exploits--it rides roller coasters, teaches fireflies to shine, and takes bubble baths. Skeptical Leen challenges YaYa's tales, but she invents her own clever twists. Includes scientific facts about the real Sun.
In 1910, six year old Pete embarks on an adventurous journey with his family as they make America their new home. The powerful emotions, hopes, and dreams of this young boy are delightfully brought to life with classic sepia themed illustrations of the era.
Jandy Nelson meets Friday Night Lights in this sweeping, warm, arrestingly original novel about family, poverty, and hope. Wing Jones, like everyone else in her town, has worshipped her older brother, Marcus, for as long as she can remember. Good-looking, popular, and the star of the football team, Marcus is everything his sister is not. Until the night everything changes when Marcus, drunk at the wheel after a party, kills two people and barely survives himself. With Marcus now in a coma, Wing is crushed, confused, and angry. She is tormented at school for Marcus’s mistake, haunted at home by her mother and grandmothers’ grief. In addition to all this, Wing is scared that the bank is going to repossess her home because her family can’t afford Marcus’s mounting medical bills. Every night, unable to sleep, Wing finds herself sneaking out to go to the school’s empty track. When Aaron, Marcus’s best friend, sees her running one night, he recognizes that her speed, skill, and agility could get her spot on the track team. And better still, an opportunity at a coveted sponsorship from a major athletic gear company. Wing can’t pass up the opportunity to train with her longtime crush and to help her struggling family, but can she handle being thrust out of Marcus’s shadow and into the spotlight? "The swiftly paced story will quickly sweep up readers...[a] well-crafted, inspirational debut with plenty of heart, hope, and determination." —Booklist "A story showing how hope and love can blossom in the midst of chaos." —Publishers Weekly
To know the Sweet Potato Queens is to love them, and if you haven't heard about them yet, you will. Since the early 1980s, this group of belles gone bad has been the toast of Jackson, Mississippi, with their glorious annual appearance in the St. Patrick's Day parade. In The Sweet Potato Queens' Book of Love, their royal ringleader, Jill Conner Browne, introduces the Queens to the world with this sly, hilarious manifesto about love, life, men, and the importance of being prepared. Chapters include: • The True Magic Words Guaranteed to Get Any Man to Do Your Bidding • The Five Men You Must Have in Your Life at All Times • Men Who May Need Killing, Quite Frankly • What to Eat When Tragedy Strikes, or Just for Entertainment • The Best Advice Ever Given in the Entire History of the World From tales of the infamous Sweet Potato Queens' Promise to the joys of Chocolate Stuff and Fat Mama's Knock You Naked Margaritas, this irreverent, shamelessly funny book is the gen-u-wine article.
Within forty-eight hours, Yaya Betancourt will go from discovering teeth between her thighs to being hunted by one of the most powerful corporations in America.She assumes the vagina dentata is a side effect of a rare genetic condition caused by AlphaBeta Pharmaceutical, decades ago, when she and several thousand others were still in the womb.But, when ABP corporate goons upend her life, she realizes her secondary teeth might be evidence of a new experiment for which she's the most advanced test tube . . . a situation worsened when Yaya's condition sprouts horns, tentacles, and a mind of its own.On the run and transforming, Yaya may be either ABP's greatest success, or the deadliest failure science has ever created.
