You can only hide for so long before fate steps in... She crept back out of the room being careful to not make a sound, debating for half a second whether she should close the door or just leave it. She left it. Every instinct was telling her to get out of there, fast. Rayne left Chicago that morning, with a random poke a map sending her, wholly unprepared, into the wilderness. Needing a place to regroup and find a new direction, she could never...

How much do young readers know about their heart? From pumping to sending blood around the body, it's time to explore heart basics and more. Heart presents incredible facts and stories about how hearts work-and what happens when it doesn't! Includes table of contents, glossary of keywords, index, author biography, sidebars, and health tips. Activities for further learning Author/Illustrator biography Glossary of key words Index Table of contents How...

Heart began in conversations amongst friends: loving, genuine exchanges of life experiences, whether good, bad, or somewhere in between. This collection of haikus is about feelings because we all have them, and because true friends can be trusted with our sorrows and-more importantly-our joys. The poems explore disparate elements ranging from gardens to boxing, jealousy to salsa, sailing to motherhood, and what they say about living truthfully with...

When Rose is arrested for assaulting a girl at her high school, the eighteen year old is given one last chance to turn her life around. Sentenced to community service at a local boxing gym, she meets Cathy, a rough, old school trainer, who reluctantly takes the wayward teen under her wing. For Ila, it seems everyday she deals with her brother's troubles with the law, her father's depression and her mother's constant pressure to succeed in her...