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Sea of Glass
Twelve-year-old Teo spends his days helping his drunken papá hang windows on shanties along Baja's wild coast. When an old angler presses Teo to seek a goddess-the Sea Angel-for rescue, Teo sets out to test whether help can be found at the hands of the gods. To learn the truth, he must look beyond legends and summon the courage to challenge his papá. And to reach freedom, he must tap his own strength, hidden beneath wounds laid by glass.
Sun Child of the Moor
Darkness, no fourteen-year-old should fear. Or so Bastian believes until he discovers that, in the dark, hides a terror known only to old English legends-a terror that's stalked him since the day he was born.England's Sylphic Kingdom, peopled with its Forest Children and Faeries, its Oakmen and Sunwalkers and Sprites, awaits the coming-of-age of its hero-the Sun Child. For at the hand of a Wight Witch, risen to great power, the Sylphic Kingdom stands on the brink of destruction. And with its fall, so too will perish the natural world.To discover what hunts him, to understand why, Bastian must realize that some legends, holding both wonders and terrors, are real. And to protect his family, Bastian-a boy who fears the dark, who fears the fight-must face dire challenges and embrace who he was born to be, even at the cost of his life.
Little Girl Can Dance
A girl brave enough to dance may just find - grief sinks away through the soles of tap shoes.When Andromeda loses her family, her best friend, her city, and her freedom, she must discover where lies the power to forge on. Artistry, dance, individuality, imagination - these are her wells of nourishment and her weapons. And though they carry the potential to help her survive? they could also destroy her.
The Shepherd of the Stars
Swift Kingsley, at merely fourteen, finds himself on the brink of adulthood. The trauma of surviving a boating accident has destroyed his boyhood illusions. No longer can he believe that the people he loves will stay safe from the currents of change.Reaching the shores of recovery won't be easy. With each day that passes, Swift's family seems to drift further away. And the accident's aftermath threatens to divide him from a cherished hope that he might one day practice medicine.The accident has wreaked damage on more than Swift's body-it has crushed his ability to focus, making studying his medical texts almost impossible. And the trauma has all but dismembered his passion for sea legends, d...
Set the Night Singing
Set the Night Singing is a chapbook collection of 44 poems, each rich with artistry and lyricism, each drawing the reader in and ferrying them through a tiny tale. Some of the journeys are quick as the flashing of sun on the sea - in others, Wagner guides the reader to levitate a moment inside the beauty of the language.Wagner defines the muse as the characters peopling her story worlds, and to them she dedicates this collection. A central theme running through the chapbook is the worth of challenge and the value of viewing pain as a tool for creating art. And nature - many of the poems within this collection shed light on the bounty that nature lends not only as a source of inspiration for ...
Night Swiftly Falling
Facing the sea winds, the storm waves of change - how might a boy weather loss without losing himself? Eight-year-old Swift is lost in dreams of sea legends and pirate adventures, until an encounter with the deadly power of the ocean shocks him into reality. Swift struggles to hang onto his childhood fantasies, but his new understanding of the fragile nature of life and friendships threatens to swamp his hope. Under the guidance of his older brother, Caius, Swift must learn to brave the challenging waves of change without losing himself to their destruction.
African American Women of the Old West
The brave pioneers who made a life on the frontier were not only male—and they were not only white. The story of African-American women in the Old West is one that has largely gone untold--until now. The story of ten African-American women is reconstructed from historic documents found in century-old archives. The ten remarkable women in African American Women of the Old West were all born before 1900, some were slaves, some were free, and some lived both ways during their lifetime. Among them were laundresses, freedom advocates, journalists, educators, midwives, business proprietors, religious converts, philanthropists, mail and freight haulers, and civil and social activists.
The Strider and the Regulus
A starry-eyed boy. A cryptic map. A mythical treasure. What perils await in the chasing of dreams? The Strider and the Regulus is a masterfully written YA literary adventure about a boy finding his own way.
How to Enjoy Your Retirement
A book about retirement that leaves financial worries to other books and simply focuses on enjoyable ways to spend time.
