From hello to goodbye to everything in between, there are so many times in your world when you can use American Sign Language (ASL). Learn helpful words for feelings, manners, basic conversations, holidays, and so much more in this kid-friendly guide that includes nearly 100 signs. The colorful design brilliantly highlights the simple text and lively illustrations, making this book a wonderful introduction to sign language for even the youngest reader.

A beautiful immersive workbook for artists ready to unlock their unique creative voice and tap into their ultimate superpower—authenticityNo matter where you are on your creative journey, Follow Your Art will help you quiet the outside noise so you can turn up your own creative volume.Created by Ilana Griffo and Katie Johnson—the artists and educators behind @Goodtype, a global community of more than a million lettering lovers and type nerds—this b...

Sheltered and Before The Contagious.**..how far the imagination can run away from homeinto the unknown, into becoming so lostyou can trade places...Cari Griffo's second book of poetry is a collection of poems she sent to family and friends during the pandemic while sheltered. With a compassionate compass she explores the meaning of home while unearthing love no matter how well hidden. The second section spans the past couple of dec...

Fanny, like so many other girls of her time, has been driven to selling her body to survive. She has since become the most sought-after prostitute of her brothel. She knows people, she knows things, and she is determined to one day move on to a better life. One day, the handsome and enigmatic James Orwood seeks her out, and makes her a proposition that might just be the making of her. He wants to use her reputed powers of seduction to get information from the rich and powerful. They form a...

Tranquility, New Jersey’s amateur drama troupe is staging a murder mystery at St. Winifred’s Academy and Alberta Scaglione couldn’t be more thrilled. Even her Italian-American famiglia are getting in on the act. But someone’s making deadly revisions to the script . . .Alberta can hardly believe it. Her childhood screen idol, 1950s Hollywood starlet Missy Michaels, has signed up for the local Tranquility Players revival of the classic Arsenic and Old La...

Drake travels back in time to save a Dragon Master!Pick a book. Grow a Reader!This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line, Branches, aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and stamina. Branches books help readers grow!Eko is in trouble! The dark wizard Maldred has trapped her with a powerful spell. ...

Christmas in Tranquility, New Jersey, means togetherness for the Italian-American Ferrara family—and an unexpected reunion for Alberta Scaglione. But someone has murder on their holiday wish list . . .Alberta is delighted that her estranged daughter has arrived in Tranquility, even if Lisa Marie has an ulterior motive. Her son, Alberta’s twenty-one-year-old grandson, Sergio, hasn’t been heard from in six months, shortly after taking up with a woman...

PEN PALS is a novel that tells the story of two women – Bernie from Newark, New Jersey and Mags from Sheffield, England – through the letters they wrote to each other as pen pals from 1955 to the present. The women age from 14 to 65 and through their letters they take us on the journey of their lives.While PEN PALS is a work of fiction, I was inspired to write it because my mother corresponded with her own British pen pal for over 60 years, from 1947 until she passed away in 2009.

One sunny summer day Jeremy finds an old-fashioned soccer ball in the attic. He and his friends decide to test it out behind a nearby castle, and that's when they bump into a strange butler who doesn't seem too pleased about the whole thing. He's so angry, in fact, that he keeps following the children around, trying to get his hands on their ball... Or is there another reason why he's so eager to get hold of the soccer ball? What is he hiding? Jeremy and his friends are keen to find out!

England, last century. A castle: Blacktales. Every seven years its proprietor, the frightening Monsieur Noir, comes over to sign the new lease with his tenant. In Blacktales, two unrelenting opposing clans fight a ferocious and cunning struggle over the possession of a pen: the lease contract can be signed only with this pen, the signature giving absolute power. Into this troubled atmosphere arrives the recently orphaned Fanny: the pen, missing for two years has been located. It is in the ...

Time is running out for the Dragon Masters to stop the dark wizard Maldred!Pick a book. Grow a Reader!This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line, Branches, aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and stamina. Branches books help readers grow!Dark wizard Maldred has stolen the Gold and Silver Keys! With these keys, he can now contro...

HOLD BACK THE NIGHT is a supernatural saga that is a cross between Dark Shadows and Revenge.Fifteen years ago, Amanda Love's son was kidnapped by the enigmatic vampire, Vincent Savage. Now Vincent is returning to Nightfall, Maine to reunite mother with son. But he returns with more than just Amanda's long-lost child, he returns with secrets that threaten to destroy every member of her family.HOLD BACK THE NIGHT has a distinct style, each chapter is written like an episode o...