A fun-filled, action-packed middle grade novel about a boy who learns about protecting the environment, finding real friends, and living in the now while spending the summer on a remote island.Sometimes it's hard to be Milton P. Greene. He says all the wrong things, his family is falling apart, and everyone at school avoids him because of the very embarrassing Bird Brain Incident. But when Milton plays his video game Isle of Wild, he becomes someo...

Milton is swept up in a quest for friends and excitement in Jess Redman’s thrilling middle grade novel, The Adventure is Now.Sometimes it's hard to be Milton P. Greene. He says all the wrong things, his family is falling apart, and everyone at school avoids him because of the very embarrassing Bird Brain Incident. But when Milton plays his video game Isle of Wild, he becomes someone else – Sea Hawk, the brave and brilliant naturalist explorer who conquers danger at every t...

"A wildly imaginative tale full of wonder and hope that is grounded in our everyday world and the very real problems that today's children face." ―Megan Frazer Blakemore, author of the Frankie Sparks seriesA NCTE Charlotte Huck Award Honor BookA Bank Street Best Book of the YearQuintessence is an extraordinary story from Jess Redman about friendship, self-discovery, interconnectedness, and the inexplicable elemen...

Hilf Alma den Sternling zu finden und entdecke, wie viel Feuer auch in dir steckt!Seit die zwölfjährige Alma mit ihren Eltern umgezogen ist, hat sie großes Heimweh, bekommt Panikattacken und fühlt sich nicht mehr wie sie selbst. Als sie ein Teleskop findet und damit beobachtet, wie ein Sternling aus dem Himmel fällt, weiß sie daher genau: Sie muss das Wesen zurück in sein Zuhause bringen, damit es ihm nicht so ergeht wie ihr. Doch dafür braucht sie Hilfe. Nur mit d...

A luminous Christmas picture book about the traditions celebrating the story of Christ that make the season a time of joy, love, faith, and light.We come to the stable, visit the manger. We are the angels singing out, “Glory!” This is a season of faith. A time to hear and believe.From paper snowflakes to silver bells, reindeer to wise men, Christmas is a season of joy and song, giving and serving, loved ones and light that can last the whole year t...

An Amazon Best Children's Book of 2019In the tradition of heartwrenching and hopeful middle grade novels such as Bridge to Terabithia comes Jess Redman's stunning debut about a young boy who must regain his faith in miracles after a tragedy changes his world.Eleven-year-old Wunder Ellis is a miracologist. In a journal he calls The Miraculous, he records stories of the inexplicable and the extraordinary. And he belie...

**This program features original sound design.A luminous children's audiobook about Christmas traditions that make the season a time of joy, love, faith, and light.**Under star-filled winter skies, with homes and trees aglow, with candles lit and hearts so full, our love will shine and grow.From paper snowflakes to silver bells, reindeer to wise men, Christmas is a season of faith and song, giving and serving, loved ones and light that can last the whole ye...

In the tradition of heartwrenching and hopeful middle grade novels such as Bridge to Terabithia comes Jess Redman's stunning debut about a young boy who must regain his faith in miracles after a tragedy changes his world.Eleven-year-old Wunder Ellis is a miracologist. In a journal he calls The Miraculous, he records stories of the inexplicable and the extraordinary. And he believes every single one. But then his newborn sister dies, at only eight ...

Quintessence is an extraordinary story from Jess Redman about friendship, self-discovery, interconnectedness, and the inexplicable elements that make you you.Find the Elements. Grow the Light. Save the Starling.Three months ago, twelve-year-old Alma moved to the town of Four Points. Her panic attacks started a week later, and they haven’t stopped—even though she’s told her parents that they have. She’s homesick and friendless and ...

"Noble Redman" is set in a future where humans have encountered various alien species and have established interstellar travel and communication. The story revolves around a human anthropologist named Dr. George Abercrombie who is tasked with studying an alien species known as the Redmen on the planet Ildore.The Redmen are a primitive, humanoid species with a culture and society that resemble those of Earth's Native American tribes. Dr. Abercrombie's mission is to observe and understand th...

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA.'The apathy of Sunday lay upon the streets. Houses were closed, withdrawn."They don't know," he thought, "those people inside, how one gesture of mine, now, at this minute, might alter their world. A knock on the door, and someone answers - a woman yawning, an old man in carpet slippers, a child sent by its parents in irritation; and according to what I will, what I decide, their whole future will be decided . . . Sudden murder. Theft. F...

A collection of suspenseful stories exploring ordinary people pushed to emotional extremes where hidden fears and moral tensions erupt into life-altering decisions, from the bestselling author of Rebecca."Her peerless craftmanship, her eerie sense of the macabre, her gift for sheer story telling come to full fruition." —Kirkus ReviewsIn this collection of suspenseful tales in which fantasies, murderous dreams and half-forgotten wor...