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Biography of President Eisenhower

When Ian Slater’s best friend, Teddy, suddenly vanishes, it’s up to Ian to discover what happened. He and Teddy were supposed to take photographs together on the day Teddy disappeared–but Teddy never showed up. Rumors are flying, and everyone looks to Ian for answers. As Ian tries to hold it all together and search for […]

The ghost of a young soldier from the Civil War haunts a troubled teen. “I sat up. The jagged trenches were only soft grassy depressions in the sunny battlefield park. I felt tears burn my eyes, the relief was so strong, and then the misery of losing the ghost hit me.” Alexander has the ability […]

Growing up in the 1830s, Louis Pasteur saw the horrifying effects of diseases like rabies and tuberculosis. He spent his lifetime searching for answers to his many questions and saved millions of lives with his discoveries.

While spending his summer vacation at his grandmother’s old Virginia home, Benjy Stark meets the ghost of a Virginia Military Institute cadet who died at the Battle of New Market during the Civil War.  

Someone murdered Brian’s girfriend, Amanda. The police think it was her father. Brian isnt so sure. But everyone he knows is telling him to move on, get over it, focus on the present. Focus on basketball. Focus on hitting the perfect shot. Brian hopes that the system will work for Amanda and her father. An […]

In 1880s Wyoming, Ned Chapman dreams of finding a dinosaur skeleton. When he discovers some old bones on his father’s ranch, Ned is thrust into the world of bone hunters — men so competitive that they will do anything to bring back the best fossils!

To successfully write books that children will read and treasure, you need to discover what makes a kid want to curl up with a book in the first place. CREATING CHARACTERS KIDS WILL LOVE can make the difference between publishing success and failure. The book explains how characters, more than any other story element, draw […]

Cameron Miller is pretending to be someone he isn’t. When he began presenting himself as Neil Lacey, it was the only way he could think of to distance himself from what Pop had done, to finally climb out of his nightmarish existence. He thought it would be easy–playing the rich kid, sailing his boat–but he […]

Was an innocent man wrongly accused of murder? On April 26, 1913, thirteen-year-old Mary Phagan planned to meet friends at a parade in Atlanta, Georgia. But first she stopped at the pencil factory where she worked to pick up her paycheck. Mary never left the building alive. A black watchman found Mary’s body brutally beaten […]