A companion novel to Priscilla Cumming's highly acclaimed The Red Kayak and The Journey BackThirteen-year-old Kate Tyler must ask herself how far she will go to protect her older brother, J.T., when he returns home after nearly a year in a juvenile detention facility, only to find himself ostracized and bullied as he attempts to make a fresh start.  Kate compromises her own values and risks getting herself into serious trouble as she launches a secret campaign to protect her brother long enough for him to find his place in the family – and in the world – again.As a follow-up to Red Kayak, Cheating for the Chicken Man brings J.T., Kate, and Brady Parks together again as they struggle with the complicated issues of fairness, friendship, and forgiveness.

Product Description: In many ways, Natalie O?Reilly is a typical fourteenyear- old girl. But a routine visit to the eye doctor produces devastating news: Natalie will lose her sight within a few short months. Suddenly her world is turned upside down. Natalie is sent to a school for the blind to learn skills such as Braille and how to use a cane...read more

Product Description: Land and sea creatures of the Chesapeake Bay are all brought in to this delightful poem that relates how every animal sleeps in a different way. Herons, crabs, clams, turtles and fish each go to sleep in a different place in the water...read more

Product Description: AUTUMN JOURNEY IS THE STORY OF SEVERAL JOURNEYS, NOT JUST THAT OF A CANADA GOOSE OR A YOUNG BOY. IT IS THE TALE OF LOVE KEEPING A STRUGGLING FAMILY TOGETHER IN THE FACE OF HARD TIMES.

Product Description: Ages 5 to 8 years. Beneath the back steps, by a rock in the shade, Beetle Boddiker lives in the house that he made. A jumble of sticks and a tumble of leaves, It is a simple bug house. But do not step on it, please! Beetle Boddiker is a tiny beetle who rarely leaves home...read more

Product Description: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Twelve-year-old Kelley decides to cut off contact with her friends and classmates after suffering third-degree burns to her face and body in a car accident near her home on Maryland's Kent Island.

Living near the water on Maryland's Eastern Shore, thirteen-year-old Brady and his best friends J.T. and Digger become entangled in a tragedy which tests their friendship and their ideas about right and wrong.

When three girls accuse their music teacher of improper behavior, the world turns on its head for Mr. Mattero as parents, school staff, and the police get involved to uncover the truth. Jr Lib Guild. Reprint.

Chadwick the crab is determined to get to the National Aquarium in Baltimore, where he hopes to become a star

When the financial situation gets worse during the Depression and the McFarland children are separated into various temporary foster homes, eleven-year-old Grace isn’t happy and wants to go back home, but when the Hammonds invite her into their loving and prosperous world, Grace begins to think that maybe she doesn’t want to return to her own family when the time comes.

Rhyming text identifies items of every color of the rainbow found in or near the Chesapeake Bay.

Teaches the alphabet by using the words of things that can be found in the Chesapeake Bay.

Introduces Chadwick, a blue crab, and his various animal friends who live in and near the Chesapeake Bay.

Uncle Toulouse describes his first migration from Canada to Chesapeake Bay, when he got separated from the rest of his flock along with Dezzy, a snow goose, and the two of them survived the winter together after an encounter with hunters.

When Chadwick and Esmeralda the crabs return to Shady Creek, they learn that Hester, the Delmarva Peninsula fox squirrel, has discovered that she is an endangered animal and wants to leave the area, and they call a meeting of the other animals, many of whom are also endangered.Chadwick and Esmeralda the crabs learn that Hester, the Delmarva Peninsula fox squirrel, has discovered that she is an endangered animal and wants to leave the area, and they call a meeting of the other animals, many of whom are also endangered

When condo builders destroy their home, two ospreys move to a channel marker in Chesapeake Bay, where they open a diner

Chadwick, a lovable crustacean, is getting married, and all his friends prepare for the big event

Product Description: Since the publication of Chadwick the Crab, tens of thousands of children have become familiar with -- and concerned about -- the engaging family of creatures who inhabit Shady Creek, a tributary of the Chesapeake Bay. This coloring book offers youngsters the chance to become even more involved with Chadwick and his friends...read more

Chadwick the Crab, with the help of his friends, is determined to save Chesapeake Bay from the garplegrungen, called pollution by people