Mandy is a house spider who doesnt understand why she keeps getting evicted. She tries to explain why she would be a great roommate. No one seems to agree. She is on a search to find someone who loves spiders. Will she ever find that perfect roommate?

As Ava and Charlie are enjoying their evening walk, they suddenly hear a loud noise! Oh no! They return home to find Charlie's doghouse in ashes from a fire. Charlie is devastated and lays down to take a nap. Will Ava be able to rebuild his home before he wakes up? Follow the clues to find out how she saves the day... and her community! This is a fun, sweet and empowering book for children. The story creates natural conversations about compassion, togetherness, and rebuilding. This is the first book in a collaborative series by The Junior Authors Program, where students across the world vote to help create the story. Your kids are invited to vote and help publish our next Junior Authors book! Download your free welcome activities here: JuniorAuthorsProgram.com/WheresMyHouse

By turning half pages, the reader helps a variety of animals find their homes.

"This first biography of poet and writer Margaret Walker (1915-98) offers a comprehensive close reading of a pillar in American culture for a majority of the 20th century. Without defining herself as a radical or even a feminist, Walker followed the precepts of both. She promoted the idea of the artist of tradition and social change, a public intellectual and an institution builder. Among the first to recognize the impact of black women in literature, Walker became a chief architect of what many have called the new Black South Renaissance. Her art was influenced early by Langston Hughes, her political understanding of the world by Richard Wright. Walker expanded both into a comprehensive view on art and humanism, which became a national platform for the center she founded in Mississippi that now bears her name. The House Where My Soul Lives provides a full account of Walker's life and new interpretations of her writings before and after the publication of her most well-known poem in the 1930s in Chicago. The book rejects the widely held view of Walker as the "angry black woman" and emphasizes what contemporary American culture owes to her decades of foundational work in what we know today as Black Studies, Women's Studies, and the Public Humanities. She was fierce in her claim to be "black, female and free" which gave her the authority to challenge all hierarchies, no matter at what cost. Featuring 80 archival photos and documents and based on never before examined personal papers and interviews with those who knew Walker personally, this book is required reading for all readers of biographies of American writers."--Amazon.com.

For so long, I thought God didn’t care about my family’s finances. Boy, was I wrong! As I read the Bible about His provision for us, there came a shift in my head—and then in my heart. I realized that He is our true provider. God has no limits and we need to believe in His provision for us in every area of our lives. No dream or vision is too big for Him—and you’ll never find out what He actually wants you to do with your finances until you ask Him. Then you will be amazed at how He uses it to answer your prayers… and the prayers of others! We have to start somewhere. It takes many little steps for us to see the fullness of what He wants for us. Your finances can be a turning point in your relationship with God. As you physically take steps to trust Him, you will see a physical manifestation of the harvest of blessings in your life.

The last sixteen years of James Baldwin's life (1971–87) unfolded in a village in the South of France, in a sprawling house nicknamed “Chez Baldwin.” In Me and My House Magdalena J. Zaborowska employs Baldwin’s home space as a lens through which to expand his biography and explore the politics and poetics of blackness, queerness, and domesticity in his complex and underappreciated later works. Zaborowska shows how the themes of dwelling and black queer male sexuality in The Welcome Table, Just above My Head, and If Beale Street Could Talk directly stem from Chez Baldwin's influence on the writer. The house was partially torn down in 2014. Accessible, heavily illustrated, and drawing on interviews with Baldwin's friends and lovers, unpublished letters, and manuscripts, Me and My House offers new insights into Baldwin's life, writing, and relationships, making it essential reading for all students, scholars, and fans of Baldwin.

A funny and tender picture book about waiting for a new brother or sister to arrive. There's a house inside my mummy, Where my little brother grows, Or maybe it's my little sister No one really knows. Waiting for a new brother or sister to arrive can be a confusing and worrying time for young children. Sharing this simple rhyming story together is the perfect way to reassure your little one and involve them in all the excitement. Told with humour and warmth by Giles Andreae, the author of much-loved family favourite Giraffes Can't Dance. 'A great book for sharing with your first born while your second is still in the 'tummy house'' - The Times A note from the author: 'When my wife became pregnant for the second time, I was talking to Flinn, our 2-year old son, about what was going to take place and how exciting it would be for him to have a brother or sister. I started to think about it as though I were a young child myself ... 'There's a house inside my mummy' was a phrase that just popped into my head, and from then on the book was a joy to write.'

This book in the popular Four Square series provides a personal coach for students to help them write. Included are 13 themed units designed to meet the interests and abilities of writers in grades 1-3. Each unit brings the prewriting through art, word association, questions, poetry, planning and composition of prose. The exercises will help students learn to be less fearful of writing assignments and actually make them fun! The topics are personal ones young writers will enjoy: themselves, their families and friends, their favorite places to go and things to do, etc.

In My House By: Michael L. Naperalsky Michael understands better than most that things are not always what they appear. His childhood had all the features of a cozy, suburban life: a well-off neighborhood, a below ground pool, and a family vacation or two to Chicago. But these seemingly benign portraits of an upper middle-class upbringing obscured the abusive environment he endured as a child, a period of time he calls his “secret life.” Despite positive developments in his education, career, and romantic life, his personal struggles with his past continued to haunt him, dragging him into painful cycles of substance abuse and misery. In My House is a compelling memoir that shows how a life can be affected by a traumatic past.

An account of Squeak, a young ruby-throated hummingbird, chronicles the bird's rescue, its daily activities and behavior, its growth to maturity in the author's indoor garden, and its eventual release back into the wild.