PROMISING, the riveting follow-up to AWAKENING by Rebel Miller. Faced with diverging loyalties - between those she loves and her responsibility to the Realm - Kira has to make heartrending and strategic decisions that threaten to jeopardize her future. As her connection to Tai deepens and turmoil in the Realm builds, so does Gannon's frustration at being unable to call Kira his own. While the Realm stands defiant amidst rising unrest, Kira is thrust...

Kira Logan is teaching a summer workshop in Plein Aire painting. One student, Jason, convicted several years before of wrong-way driving and causing a fatal car accident, was sentenced to only a few years in jail. Many people, resentful of the short time he was incarcerated, have gathered for Kira's class, with revenge in mind. From the fi rst day problems arise and things begin to go wrong. Threats are made, not-so-subtle warnings issued and a wildfire...

Our beloved champion from Arizona, Kira Logan, takes on another murder mystery in the latest thriller series by Joan Andrew. Her latest project in Phoenix brings her closer to home. She is commissioned to paint the portrait of her friend from an exercise class, Bonnie Barlow. The business partner of Bonnie's realtor husband, Frank Thornton, also commissioned Kira to do his portrait, his wife Patricia, and Carlton, Bonnie's husband. To make things...

This biography introduces readers to Cynthia Kadohata, the Newbery Medal winning author of Kira-Kira. She is also the author of A Million Shades of Gray, Outside Beauty, Weedflower, Cracker! The Best Dog in Vietnam, and other young adult and adult novels. Readers will learn about Kadohata's early life in the South, the influence of her Japanese heritage, her struggle to get short stories published in magazines, her switch to young adult fiction,...

Moments ago, Ellie and Jen Aston were in their small midwestern town of Groverton, but now, they find themselves on a parallel Earth, in the magical land of Kiamada. Accompanied by Alistair Doyle, his twin sister Kira, Kira's husband Jerry, and the giant Wiler, Theonus, Ellie and Jen have to adapt to their new lives in this similar, yet still different, world. Weird plants and strange animals aren't that surprising, but Bar Truga, the sentient island...

Once in a lovely, small valley surrounded by rolling hills and covered by a wide-open sky, where red-tailed hawks, blue herons and sometimes even great condors glided on the invisible currents, there was a place called, The Say Yes Ranch. Living all together there were, dogs, cats, horses, chickens and a rabbit. At one time or another, as life would have it, each of them found themselves challenged or launched into a great adventure. Let me tell you...

Lame and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the all-powerful Guardians.

"In our polarized environment, the censorship and outright banning of children's books that some people deem to be controversial or objectionable remains a major concern for schools, libraries, and communities across the United States. Intellectual freedom champion, the American Library Association, created Teaching Banned Books to Kids, a guide that includes both contemporary books that have been banned and classic literature that continues to be...

"In a world where any biological matter can be used to create life, stolen celebrity DNA sells to the highest bidder--or the craziest stalker"--

S.T., a domesticated crow, is a bird of simple pleasures: hanging out with his owner Big Jim, trading insults with Seattle's wild crows (those idiots), and enjoying the finest food humankind has to offer: Cheetos ®.Then Big Jim's eyeball falls out of his head, and S.T. starts to feel like something isn't quite right. His most tried-and-true remedies--from beak-delivered beer to the slobbering affection of Big Jim's loyal but dim-witted dog, Dennis--fail...