Product Description: A young mother dying from cancer finds peace within herself and joy and fulfillment with her husband and baby daughter during her last few months of life

Assigned beautiful new girl Crystal as her 'secret sister' as part of a class project to encourage the students to make new friends, Darci wonders if Crystal will want to be friends with her once she discovers Darci's identity.

Fleeing his ruined fortunes, Blake Corley agrees to drive the Durango stagecoach out of town, carrying a cargo of two dead railroad workers killed in a holdup, a prostitute gone straight, and a black laborer. Original.

Product Description: No one understands Declan. Not his mother or his father or his teachers. No one but maybe his new group of friends. After moving, Declan will do anything to fit in at his new school, even if it is illegal. When he and his new friends get caught, the consequences are tragic...read more

Loretta, unrelenting perfectionist, is devastated when she fails to earn the Golden Marshmallow Badge, but her grandmother's picture gives her a new perspective on things.

Best friends Hermie and Wormie are sad each time they see other creatures that are special when they, themselves, are so ordinary, but they trust that they are special in God's eyes and that He is not finished with them yet.

Product Description: Meet a most unusual crocodile!   Everybody knows that crocodiles love water, but this little crocodile is different—he doesn't like it at all! He tries to his best to change, but when attempt at swimming causes a shiver then a sneeze—could it be that this little crocodile isn't a crocodile at all? A hilarious and uplifting story about being yourself from a talented debut author-illustrator...read more

Feeling neglected by her divorced parents and distant older sister, fourteen-year-old Jessica discovers how easily she is able to attract the attention of men and boys, without realizing the risks of her behavior.

Product Description: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Jaris hides his own darkness from his parents: How hard he has to work for good grades. How quickly a teacher's pen stroke sends him slipping. How he tries out for every sport at Tubman and fails. And then there's Sereeta's scorn...

Product Description: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Sophie Miller is a totally average 3rd-grade girl. She's a middle child, lives in a town called Ordinary, and has finished 3rd in every race she's ever run. Boring! But Sophie is determined to find a name that proves just how special she really is...read more

Product Description: "Yoomee and the Bully" is an illustrated hardcover children's book (ages 4-10) about bullying, teasing and positive self esteem. Yoomee Adventures, the publisher is an all volunteer nonprofit 501-C-3 organization.

Product Description: When Grandma says that Emma's friend must have a dark colored heart because he was mean, Emma decides that she needs to find out the color of each family member's heart. From red for love to orange for hope, Emma discovers that everyone knows the color of their heart, except for herself...read more

“You all believe that losing one-hundred-plus pounds will solve everything, but it won’t. Something far heavier is weighing on you, and until you deal with that, nothing in your lives will be right.” –Betsy Glass, PhD, at first weekly group counseling session for ten severely obese teens admitted into exclusive weight-loss surgery trial Patient #1: Female, age 16, 5'4", 288 lbs.Thrust into size-zero suburban hell by remarried liposuctioned mom. Hates new school and skinny boy-toy stepsister.Body size exceeded only by her big mouth. Patient #2: Male, age 16, 6'2", 335 lbs.All-star football player, but if he gets “girl surgery,” as his dad calls it, he’ll probably get benched.Has moobies—male boobies. Forget about losing his V-card—he’s never even been kissed. Patient #3: Female, age 15, 5'6", 278 lbs.Morbidly obese and morbid, living alone with severely depressed mother who won’t leave her bed.Best and only friend is another patient, whose dark secret threatens everything Patient #3 believes about life. Told in the voices of patients Marcie Mandlebaum, Bobby Konopka, and Annie “East” Itou, Teenage Waistland is a story of betrayal, intervention, a life-altering operation, and how a long-buried truth can prove far more devastating than the layers of fat that protect it.Contains an afterword by Jeffrey L. Zitsman, MD, director of the Center for Adolescent Bariatric Surgery at Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital