All midfielder-extraordinaire Teresa Rodriguez wants to do is win a soccer championship with her best friends and celebrate by dancing on the field. However, when her world comes crashing down when her father is deported, Teresa must learn to juggle family responsibility, team leadership, new friendships and her quest to win. The middle-grade trilogy is about a girl's love of soccer, how family and friendships create unbreakable bonds and how a girl and her teammates overcome obstacles on ...

Mandalay Hawk's Dilemma: The United States of Anthropocene is a middle-grade novel for our troubled and overheated times. Set in 2030, the book is about a 13-year-old girl's effort to save the world from global warming.The story unwinds in 2030 as The Biiiig Heat, the new global warming, is suffocating and swamping earth, causing death, destruction and mayhem like never before.New York City is partially under water (permanently!),...

In The Comeback, the second book in the middle-grade trilogy, soccer star Teresa Rodriguez, now 13, is still striving for her first soccer championship, but her life now is even more complicated. She struggles with family responsibility; her best friend, Gabby, being shipped to a foster home; and the uncertainty about whether her father will ever return home. Meanwhile, once the season starts, Teresa is the captain as the middle-school Tornadoes tear through the league and Teresa ...

Bronislaw Huberman was a child prodigy who played his violin before kings and queens. As an adult, he became one of the greatest violinists in the world. And then came the horrors of Nazi Germany and the violence and hatred towards the Jews of Europe. The time period was 1933 – 36. Huberman decided he needed to save his fellow Jews in Europe. He witnessed Jewish musicians losing their jobs. He saw their desperate state. So he took action, using his violin as a sword. When he needed to rais...

In The Last Chance, the third book in the middle-grade trilogy, soccer star Teresa Rodriguez ditches school graduation to make one last solitary run on her beloved soccer field. She and her teammates haven't won a championship yet and their career together seems over. Or is it? Somehow, they may get one last chance to lift a trophy, even as Teresa fights to bring her dad home and her family struggles financially. It becomes one last summer together for the Tornadoes, eight weeks o...

The first volume in a multi-volume collection presenting the Dalai Lama’s comprehensive explanation of the Buddhist path.His Holiness the Dalai Lama has been publicly teaching Buddhism for decades. This series collects his presentations of every step of the path to enlightenment, compiled and coauthored by one of his chief Western disciples, the American nun Thubten Chodron.The Buddha wanted his students to investigate, to see for themselves whether what he...

"The second volume in the Dalai Lama’s definitive and comprehensive series on the stages of the Buddhist path, The Library of Wisdom and Compassion.Volume 1, Approaching the Buddhist Path, contained introductory material that set the context for Buddhist practice. This second volume, The Foundation of Buddhist Practice, describes the important teachings that will help us establish a flourishing Dharma practice.Traditional presenta...

The sixth book in the #1 New York Times bestselling Princess Diaries series by Meg Cabot.Student body president, that is—nominated by her power-mad best friend, Lilly. This is not how Mia imagined kicking off her sophomore year, but as usual, she has bigger problems to worry about, like Geometry. And now that Mia's one true love, Michael, is uptown at college, what's the point of even getting up for school in the morning? But the last straw is what Lana wh...

A heartwarming story about the new girl in school, and how she learns to appreciate her Korean name.Being the new kid in school is hard enough, but what happens when nobody can pronounce your name? Having just moved from Korea, Unhei is anxious about fitting in. So instead of introducing herself on the first day of school, she decides to choose an American name from a glass jar. But while Unhei thinks of being a Suzy, Laura, or Amanda, nothing feels right. With the...

An accident puts everything into shocking perspective in this darkly funny, “searing portrayal of power, privilege, and betrayal in the hills above Los Angeles” (Publishers Weekly).Gabby lived under the radar until her makeover. Way under. But when she started her senior year as a blonder, better-dressed version of herself, she struck gold: Billy Nash believed she was the flawless girl she was pretending to be. The next eight months with Billy were bliss.....

“Elena is one of the brightest stars in our game today and an iconic role model.” —Lisa M. Borders, WNBA President“Inspiring in many ways.” —Kirkus ReviewsElena Delle Donne, 2015 WNBA MVP and 2016 Olympic gold medalist, shares her inspirational story of being a young basketball prodigy who gave up an impressive basketball scholarship for family and self-discovery.Elena Delle Donne has always forged her own ...