Monster Megan’s BIG Clean Up


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The place is a mess, but Monster Megan has a plan to get a BIG monster clean-up underway. Even though monsters don’t usually like picking up, they make a game out of sorting circles from squares and triangles from rectangles. Meet Molly, Max, Megan, and Mo—The Busy Monsters. This new series of fun stories from Ruby Tuesday Books has been carefully crafted to help young children learn to read. To build reading confidence, each book combines repetitive, predictable text with high-frequency and familiar sight words. Illustrated with bold, quirky, collage-style artwork, this title helps young readers build on their understanding of shapes and shape words as they enjoy the fun monster story.




Monster Max's Big Breakfast: Have Fun with Numbers


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Monster Max is feeling very, very hungry. He eats one tractor, two trees, and three pizzas. Later, he gobbles down six socks and seven sausages. When Max starts to burp, his best friend Molly suspects things are about to get yucky! Meet Molly, Max, Megan, and Mo--The Busy Monsters. This new series of fun stories from Ruby Tuesday Books has been carefully crafted to help young children learn to read. To build reading confidence, each book combines repetitive, predictable text with high-frequency and familiar sight words. Illustrated with bold, quirky, collage-style artwork, this title helps young readers practice counting and number words as they enjoy the fun monster story.




The Coolest Monsters


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The pieces in this collection range in setting from the small towns of New England to the deserts of the Southwest. Grounded in personal experience these essays ask through narrative what it means to be a rebel girl, a rebel teenager, and a rebel woman in a world that seems to offer no real alternative to traditional roles. Infused with lyrical and figurative language, this collection combines the swiftness of the prose poem with the power of the personal essay resulting in writing that pulls the ground out from under the reader again and again. The collection is organized chronologically in a way that charts the development of a woman as she attempts to adapt to the world around her through stories of love, heartbreak, and adventure. The essays travel with the narrator from a summer camp in Maine, to opal mining in Nevada, to the story of a deadly thunderstorm in Vermont, to hunting for ginseng, asking the questions about belonging, expectation and, ultimately, if there is a chance for real happiness.




Miracle on Voodoo Mountain


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"It took months of God waking me up in the middle of the night before I realized I was the one He was calling to leave my comfortable American life and move to Haiti." Miracle on Voodoo Mountain is the inspirational memoir of an accomplished and driven 24-year old who quit her job, sold everything, and moved to Haiti, by herself—all without a clear plan of action. Megan Boudreaux had visited Haiti on a few humanitarian trips but each trip multiplied the sense that someone needed to address the devastation—especially with the children, many of whom were kept as household slaves on the poverty-stricken and earthquake-devastated Caribbean island. God guided her every step as she moved blindly to a foreign land without knowing the language, the people, or the future. From becoming the adoptive mother of former child slaves, to receiving the divine gift of the Haitian Creole language, to starting, building, and running a school for more than 500 children, "the amazingness of what God did after I made the choice to be obedient is incredible," said Megan. Three years later, six acres on Bellevue Mountain in Gressier is the home of the nonprofit Respire Haiti at the former site of voodoo worship, and in the area that many still come to make animal sacrifices, Megan and her staff of nearly 200 are transforming this community as they educate, feed, and address the needs.







Monster in the Closet


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Private Investigator Clay Maynard locates missing children for clients, but has nearly given up hope of finding his own daughter, cruelly stolen from him by his ex-wife 23 years ago. Equine therapist Taylor Dawson has chosen to intern at Daphne Montgomery-Carter's stables so that she can observe the program's security director - her father, Clay Maynard. Trying to reconcile the man she's getting to know with the monster her mother described, Taylor never expects to become the target of a real monster. Neither does she expect to fall for Ford Elkhart, who is dealing with his own demons. Taylor starts to imagine a permanent life in Baltimore. But not if the real monster gets to her first...




Broken


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Cassandra Whitman seems like a normal girl on the outside. Sure she doesn't really have any friends, but she gets by--and she has Adam. But what happens when she doesn't have him anymore, and how far will she go to get him back?




The Happy Runner


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Is your daily run starting to drag you down? Has running become a chore rather than the delight it once was? Then The Happy Runner is the answer for you. Authors David and Megan Roche believe that you can’t reach your running potential without consistency and joyful daily adventures that lead to long-term health and happiness. Guided by their personal experiences and coaching expertise, they point out the mental and emotional factors that will help you learn exactly how to become a happy runner and achieve your personal best.




The 'Naturals


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A small town full of secrets. A coming darkness. Teenagers with supernatural abilities. Think you know the story? Think again. As Summer ends, the students at Silverwood High are getting ready to go back to school and resume their normal, everyday lives. Too bad "normal" is no longer an option. When these teens get their very first tastes of what destiny has in store, will they embrace that destiny... or flee from it? Will they be selfless... or ruthless? Will they master their abilities... or will their abilities master them? This is their awakening, the first step of an epic journey. But it's only the beginning of something bigger than they could ever imagine. Four teenagers. One town. Four authors. One story. The sleepy little town of Silverwood is about to wake up. * * * IN THESE EPISODES... In the season finale of The 'Naturals, "Awakening" comes to an adrenaline-fueled conclusion, as secrets are exposed and shocking events change the small town of Silverwood forever... Hailey: Episode 17 Her horrific dreams are intensifying and her powers are growing. Is Hailey powerful enough to survive when the unthinkable happens? by K.C. Neal Marshall: Episode 18 Marshall and his friends are in real danger and there's no one coming to help. But that's nothing compared to the game-changing surprises they're in store for. by Robin Parrish Avery: Episode 19 While learning to harness her powers, Avery grows closer to Riley. But Dexter's not going to let her go without a fight -- and he's still got some big surprises up his sleeve. by Melody Carlson Israel: Episode 20 All his life, Israel has lived in fear of his abusive parents. Tonight, everything finally comes to a head, and nothing will ever be the same. by Aaron Patterson For readers who enjoy teen & young adult literature & fiction action & adventure, teen & young adult science fiction supernatural paranormal, teen & young adult, teen & young adult fantasy superhero, teen & young adult social issues adolescence, teen & young adult science fiction & fantasy science fiction mysteries.