Elizabeth Grant (1797-1885) was the daughter of Sir John Peter Grant, landowner, lawyer and MP, and mother, Jane Ironside. Her narrative describes intimate personal and family memories and observations on contemporary ideas and opinions, society and travel.""If you have never read it before, do so now...compelling...delicious insights into a way of life long passed, as well as glimpses of the familiar...a warm, human, revealing account of a young woman's life.""If you have ne...

Gravel, a young Earth Dragon, was abandoned by his father. A large, grumpy Fire Dragon named Flame had found Gravel as an egg, and brought him to the Fire Dragon Kingdom. Since Gravel was the only Earth Dragon in that entire kingdom, he got bullied a lot! Luckily, he could seek refuge in his classroom, where his teacher, Mr. Ash, would protect him. Even Flame was cruel to Gravel but finally, he had made a friend. A young, smart, and pretty Fire Dragon named Ember. Finally, Gravel had decid...

Rule a Healthy Roost provides just the right amount of easy-to-use information to make nutrition and fitness as simple and fun as possible, as well as tips for getting everyone on board.With humor and a good scoop of mom-sense, Leslie Smith Grant walks you through:Nutrition and Kitchen 101Safety adviceTips for cooking with kidsShopping and pantry tipsRecipes and menusActivities and games...and more!

From the editors of Brain Quest, America’s #1 educational bestseller!This Big Fat Notebook makes it all “sink in” with key concepts, mnemonic devices, definitions, diagrams, and doodles to help you understand computer science.Including:Computing systemsBinary codeAlgorithmsComputational thinkingLoops, events, and proceduresProgramming in Scratch and Py...

Grant Smith has lived a life shaped by love, loss, resilience, and redemption. As a father, caregiver, survivor, and encourager, his journey has taken him through deep valleys and into moments of powerful grace. He has faced heartbreak, illness, injustice, and transformation-and emerged with a message of hope not only for himself, but for anyone searching for meaning, healing, and self-worth.*Reflections from the Heart: A Journey to Self-Worth and Healing* is Grant's gift to the re...

Polymers exhibit a range of physical characteristics, from rubber-like elasticity to the glassy state. These particular properties are controlled at the molecular level by the mobility of the structural constituents. Remarkable changes in mobility can be witnessed with temperature, over narrow, well defined regions, termed relaxation processes. This is an important, unique phenomenon controlling polymer transition behaviour and is described here at an introductory level. The important type...

Everyone loves a story about well-muscled retrievers barreling after thrown balls or elegant, longhaired cats commanding the attention of all in a room. But what about those less fortunate companion animals, whose experiences have robbed them of the wholeness of their “perfect” pet peers? After all, it’s easy to be happy when life has been safe, kind and protected, but it takes a special kind of critter to triumph over brutal circumstances that would make most people give up...

Time Period:  1867  Eleven-year-old Janie finds herself in a quandary. The War Between the States is now over, and Miss Laura, widowed mistress of Rubyhill Plantation, has told Rubyhill's former slaves they're welcome to stay or free to leave. But for Janie, where should she go? There are still dangers in the South, and so many unknowns in the North-and moving may eliminate any chance of ever finding her mother. Using actual historical events to tell the poignant story of ...

People love their pets--cats more so than any other (or so the cats would like to think). And if there is anything cat-lovers enjoy almost as much as stroking their beloved feline friends, it's reading about cats. In the tradition and style of her previous smash hits, Callie Smith Grant brings readers a brand-new collection of uplifting stories about the amazing creatures that warm our hearts--and our laps! With stories from Melody Carlson, Jill Eileen Smith, Robert Benson, Kathi ...

Dogs are truly one of God's finest creatures, a marvelous gift for us humans. In the perfect follow-up to A Prince among Dogs, Callie Smith Grant compiles a delightful collection of true stories that celebrate the dogs in our lives. These stories will touch our hearts, renew our spirits, and show us how God made these wonderful creatures for unique purposes.Readers will love these uplifting glimpses into the lives of ordinary and extraordinary dogs and the people who love ...

Time Period: 1867 Eleven-year-old Janie finds herself in a quandary. The War Between the States is now over, and Miss Laura, widowed mistress of Rubyhill Plantation, has told Rubyhill's former slaves they're welcome to stay or free to leave. But for Janie, where should she go? There are still dangers in the South, and so many unknowns in the North-and moving may eliminate any chance of ever finding her mother. Using actual historical events to tell the poignant story of a ...

Whether we watch quick little songbirds at our backyard feeders, keep a flock of chickens, teach parrots to talk, or stand looking up at the sky, mesmerized by the aerial acrobatics of blackbirds gathering as the leaves turn in the fall, humans have an almost universal admiration of and interest in birds. We love the birdsong of spring, the fledglings in summer, the deep V of geese in autumn, the bright spot of red cardinals against white snow.Wild or domestic, birds are clearly on...