What do you get when you mix a lonely girl, a mysterious land full of colors and magic, unusual characters, a missing prince and a dangerous quest? Annas Adventure! This amazing book is full of dazzling illustrations that create a remarkable journey through 14 chapters that is sure to please readers of all ages! Annas adventure features a young girl faced with a new baby sister and an older brother who tends to ignore her. Anna's loneliness leads her to investigate an unusual appearance of rainbow colored bananas which bring her to The Land Of Zuz. The color is fading from the land with the disappearance of the prince and Anna agrees to help. Along with Odo the Monkey, Hannah the giraffe, the Magic Medallion and many other citizens of Zuz, Anna embarks on a quest that will change her life. Once you finish this sixty-page adventure youll want to buy one for your school, church, niece, and neighbor! Everyone will want to experience the magic!

This book covers in unmatched detail the life history, relationships, biology, and conservation of all the world's toucans, barbets, and honeyguides. These number 133 species, found in tropical regions around the world. The toucans are especially well-known because of their dramatic bills and their association with the Amazon rainforest. The colour plates, painted by well- known US artist Albert Earl Gilbert, are probably the best paintings of these birds ever produced.

For many years the Amazon rainforest had been attacked by the invaders. They illegally cut the trees for the economical advancement. They also slash and burn the soil barren, unfertile and unproductive. The animals are being neglected by their ruthless act. If captured alive, they are imprisoned in cages, dragged out the forest to be illegally sold at the cities outside markets. Morjah, a respected toucan is the new elected keeper of the jungle. With special power, he trains as much birds as he can in an attempt to sweep evil out of the forest. Morjah only starts to see change when his fostered parrot he named Xavier becomes mature and takes the forest destruction into a new level. A war is declared, the forest is divided in two worlds. On one side are the defenders led by Morjah the other are the destroyers led by an evil envy creature. Who will wins the battle? Will the good guys be able to sweep evil out of the forest for good?

Nothing makes Horus happier than being with his family in their jungle home. But the human bulldozers are about to move in on his paradise. Not only will the destruction of all the trees leave his family homeless, the rising temperatures due to climate change are about to leave his species with no food – meaning Hummingbirds could be gone forever. With his dad missing and no bird willing to make a stand, Horus needs a miracle. So when he hears of a mystical bird called the ‘Bird of Destiny’ who can listen to the wind and change the future, he makes it his mission to find this extraordinary bird so they can save his species and shake up the humans so they see how climate change is killing the planet. But does the Bird of Destiny truly exist? Can Horus save Hummingbirds from extinction? And will he ever get to see his dad again?

Teach literacy skills through poetry. Word study activities based on poems develop phonemic awareness as well as vocabulary and spelling skills.

Sergeant Davida Uri is the only volunteer willing to locate a missing group of people simply called the Survivors by the lethargic group of World Leaders that run Shamayim, a city designed to shelter civilians that have already been rescued. As Sergeant Uri journeys through this new wasteland, she runs into a reluctant and hostile academy, a group of beings known as the "Caretakers," who have taken on the task of restoring the Earth, as well as a being Uri simply refers to as the Shadow, when she is unable to make out its features throughout most of her journey.

The barbarians are coming and what do they bring? A vivid, turbulent novel following the fates of two very different people in a land that is not their own drawn together at The Hour Of The Thin Ox In tranquil, prosperous Bryland, a young heiress learns of a new engine of war which will bring terrible change in its wake. In the distant, arrogant nation of Escaly, the elderly Imperial Geometer is sent upon an unexpected and frightening mission. In the dark, feverish jungles of Belanesi, a strange half-human people wait for a season of rain and the call of a mysterious piper. At the Hour of the Thin Ox three cultures collide, with violent and paradoxical consequences.

In a world full of caring adults, how is it that we keep missing the cries of hurting kids? “Today, when the bell rings, kids might leave their school campus, but they can never escape the other world, a world where mockers and intimidators thrive. Ironically, they carry a gateway to that world right in their pockets, because they see that world as an avenue of escape. . .but in reality, it’s putting them in bondage." --Jonathan McKee With chapters including: Digital Hurt The Escape Key Why Didn’t You Say Anything? Meet the Principal Real-World Solutions and More! An expert on youth and youth culture, McKee shares his own heart-rending story and offers a sobering glimpse into the rapidly changing world of bullies, bystanders, and the bullied while providing helpful ways to connect with these kids, open doors of dialogue, and give them the encouragement they need and the validation they're searching for. . .too often in all the wrong places. The Bullying Breakthrough promises real-world help for dealing with today’s bullying culture.

The book is a fiction for kids that talks about the deforestation in Brazil. The animals are trying to save what men are destroying, so the keepers and the Yanomami tribe are going to fight the invaders out of the forest.

In 1965, Mike Peterson, an American Peace Corps volunteer midway through his two-year service in Colombia, is heading into the rainforest with friends. Thanks to a land-reform policy—“land without men for men without land”—his friends intend to claim a parcel of free jungle land to homestead. Mike eagerly accepts the invitation to be a part of this life-changing experience with them. No one could have predicted just how life-changing the experience truly would be. While traveling overnight to the rainforest by chiva—the rustic, open-air buses of the Andes—Mike and his friends are pulled into a situation they can’t fully understand. They attempt to rescue a young woman from her abusive companion, a ruffian who turns out to be an employee and friend of Don Trujillo, the vengeful rancher and smuggler who controls the flow of contraband along the Urabá coast. In payment for their kindness, the homesteaders may have provoked the wrath of the unpredictable Trujillo and his gun-slinging gauchos. The mountainous forest they are heading into is a refuge for Indians, bandits, smugglers, and outlaws, as well as the many camouflaged, lethal creatures that inhabit the woods, swamps, and waterways. Mike and his friends must find the strength and courage to survive the many challenges of their new rainforest home, but the promise of love and hope keeps them going.