Eric Walters

"Betty doesn't think of herself as brave or creative or imaginative like the other girls at the orphanage she grew up in. However, she is hardworking and kind, which helps her adjust to her new life as a maid in the home of the wealthy Remington family. But Betty's natural optimism and goodness are tested when she learns that her father is serving a life sentence for murder"--Back cover.

Chronicles what happens when Jake, having just received his driver's license and been loaned his brother's souped-up car, takes his friend Mickey for a ride and gets involved in a street race.

Ian, inspired by a documentary on fast food, starts an online boycott of Frankie's fast food restaurants that multiplies to the extent that it attracts the attention of the company's lawyers and eventually forces the chain to add healthy choices to its menu.

When a losing basketball team is jokingly called the "lard butts" by the opposing team, one of the players starts an election to change the school team names from the "Laggan Lairds" to the "Laggan Lard Butts."

One shocking afternoon, computers around the globe shut down in a viral catastrophe. At sixteen-year-old Adam Daley's high school, the problem first seems to be a typical electrical outage, until students discover that cell phones are down, municipal utilities are failing, and a few computer-free cars like Adam's are the only vehicles that function. Driving home, Adam encounters a storm tide of anger and fear as the region becomes paralyzed. Soon—as

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"When Wally is badly injured skateboarding, Phillip must decide what is more important-- skating or making things right with his friends"--T.p. verso.

DJ jets across the Atlantic to England to follow a series of obscure clues and symbols he hopes will reveal the truth about his grandfather. In London, he stays with Doris, the elderly woman he climbed Mount Kilimanjaro with. Laid up with a broken ankle, Doris has her grandchild, Charlie, offer assistance. Charlie-short for Charlotte-is a beautiful model who is romantically (and secretly) linked to a member of the British Royal Family. Spies, guns,...

Luego de ver un documental sobre los problemas de salud que provoca la comida rápida, Ian organiza un boicot para que la gente no coma en Frankie's, una cadena de restaurantes con un pésimo menú. Los abogados de la empresa tratan entonces de detenerlo. ¿Podrá Ian luchar por sus convicciones? ¿Será posible ganarle a una corporación gigantesca?

When Ian and his classmates watch a documentary about the health concerns of eating fast...

Seven-year-old Christina desperately wants a dog. When she visits a kennel with her parents, she comes home with Prince, a greyhound recently retired from his champion racing career. Christina is thrilled and spends all her time with her new pal. They are like two peas in a pod. But one day, when Prince is left alone in the backyard, he escapes. Christina's mother searches everywhere for him only to find him at the schoolyard gate waiting for Christina....

Inspired by a story told to the author while on safari in 2015, The Wild Beast describes the creation of one of Africa's most unusual animals, the wildebeest. According to oral tradition, the Creator built this unique beast out of leftover parts from other magnificent animals found on the continent. Horns from buffalos and stripes meant for zebras. Tails from giraffes and bumps meant for camels. This creative retelling will introduce little ones to...