Special events and holidays are fun to celebrate, and Halloween especially seems to bring out our playfulness. We've brought together 23 fun crochet projects just for Halloween that are sure to have you reaching for your crochet hook and orange yarn! In this book, you'll find projects for the home, including throws, pillows, baskets, pot holders, coasters, and table decor, as well as treat bags, stuffed toys, games and more. Plus, you can stitch many of these patterns as fast as the flutter of a bat's wings!

When Sammy gets to be in charge of the family's haunted house next Halloween, he gets right to work, but his family isn't sure they can take a full year of Sammy's spooky tricks.

Sink your teeth into Olivia and Ivy's 17th fright-time adventure Olivia Abbott is used to vampires. . . after all, her twin sister Ivy is one! But she's never believed in ghosts. That all changes at the Café Creative Halloween party, when Olivia meets a beautiful girl who's dressed in a strange red gown and behaving super spookily! Ivy isn't convinced. . . until she learns the legend of the tragic Calhoun sisters, who died over 100 years ago. Could Franklin Grove be haunted? One thing's for certain--the twins are in for their spookiest Halloween ever!

The third full-color, illustrated, hilarious title in new chapter book series by illustrator Jason Tharp. It's Halloween at Happy Tails School and Peachy and Keen want to uncover what's really making that "Ooooo" noise coming from the locker rooms and write about it for Purrfect9. But when they sneak into school after hours, they discover something they weren't quite ready for. Could Happy Tails School be home to a spooky ghost or is there some other explanation for all of that spooky singing?

Have you ever been in a formal setting and needed to laugh but didn’t dare? Have you ever fought back a smile, a silent giggle that produced a tsunami of shaking that became contagious to those seated next to you? Life is full of these surprise moments as presented in YOU CAN’T MAKE THIS STUFF UP. This is a must-read if you have had these moments caused by the actions of others that made you want to scream, yell, or run out of the room before you exploded. This book is a collection of these kinds of moments which may remind you of your experiences where it wasn’t kosher to find the funny side of life. Although life has its many serious moments, it also has a funny side where many are afraid to advance. Try it, you’ll like it!

"A boldly authentic new voice in queer fiction." —Abdi Nazemian, author of Stonewall Honor book Like a Love Story and The Chandler Legacies Two track and field athletes find an unexpected but powerful love in this unapologetically blunt and unforgettably real YA debut. Sebastian Villeda is over it. Over his rep. Over his bros. Over being "Bash the Flash," fastest sprinter in South Jersey. His dad is gone, his mom is dead, and his stepfather is clueless. Bash has no idea what he wants out of life. Until he meets Sandro. Sandro Miceli is too nice for his own good. The middle child in an always-growing, always-screaming Italian family, Sandro walks around on a broken foot to not bother his busy parents. All he wants is to get out and never look back. When fate—in the form of a party that gets busted—brings these two very different boys together, neither of them could’ve predicted finding a love that they’d risk everything for…

This is the fourth foray into the author's life experiences and this time the family unexpectedly fly across the Atlantic to spend a glorious time in Florida. It was unexpected because when they went to book the holiday their intended destination was Egypt! Florida was booked as a once-in-a-lifetime holiday but they all loved it so much that they returned every year for over twenty years, until Borry became too unwell to travel such a distance. Borry relates tales of the mountains of food, travel and getting lost, villas vs. hotels and of course the wonderful attractions. Welcome to the trans-Atlantic fun!

Even the youngest readers and writers in today’s classrooms can benefit enormously from engagement with a wide range of traditional and nontraditional texts. This teacher-friendly handbook is packed with creative strategies for introducing K–3 students to fiction, poetry, and plays; informational texts; graphic novels; digital storytelling; Web-based and multimodal texts; hip-hop; advertisements; math problems; and many other types of texts. Prominent authorities explain the research base underlying the book’s 23 complete lessons and provide practical activities and assessments for promoting decoding, fluency, comprehension, and other key literacy skills. Snapshots of diverse classrooms bring the material to life; helpful reproducibles are included.

After the birth of her baby triggers a manic maelstrom, Dyane Harwood struggles to survive the bewildering highs and crippling lows of her brain’s turmoil. Birth of a New Brain vividly depicts her postpartum bipolar disorder, an unusual type of bipolar disorder and postpartum mood and anxiety disorder. During her childhood, Harwood grew up close to her father, a brilliant violinist in the Los Angeles Philharmonic who had bipolar disorder. She learned how bipolar disorder could ravage a family, but she never suspected that she’d become mentally ill—until her baby was born. Harwood wondered if mental health would always be out of her reach. From medications to electroconvulsive therapy, from “redwood forest baths” to bibliotherapy, she explored both traditional and unconventional methods of recovery—in-between harrowing psychiatric hospitalizations. Harwood reveals how she ultimately achieved a stable mood. She discovered that despite having a chronic mood disorder, a new, richer life is possible. Birth of a New Brain is the chronicle of one mother’s perseverance, offering hope and grounded advice for those battling mental illness.