Kids Young Teen

What if good & evil were related? We first meet our hero in a mountain top village where the peace is bound come to an end... "The grass dances in the warm breeze in celebration, back lit by the waning light of an afternoon sun. Today is special. After a long drought, the thirst is finally quenched with the blood of a dove. A lone crow picks at the dying dove. It stands on the dove's broken wing, pinning it down with its crude, reptilian feet."

A boy knocks over the gravestone of a kid who shares his name. Then the boy is terrorized at home by a ghostly kid. Find out how he makes the haunting stop.

We live in challenging times where kids are feeling more and more isolated and alone. Having an unhappy child is a parent's worst fear. As such, parents want to give their kids the tools they need to understand the world they live in without making them so afraid they can never develop into who they are meant to be.

Forget coding. Help your children learn how to think first! Packed with practical illustrations and simple language to inspire learning! Mental Models for Kids is the first book in this series created to help train the young mind, equip it with dynamic tools, and remove any blind spots. In a world that is driven more and more by narrative and less by fact, mental models are, perhaps, the only mechanism effectively separating the signal from all the noise.

Shakespeare for Kids adapts the timeless works of Shakespeare into plain English for a younger audience. This story is that of the end of King Richard II's reign during the late 1300s. It is a story of plotting and power, and the first of Shakespeare's four plays about the house of Lancaster. This abridged version is targeted for a younger audience, toning down any violent scenes and presenting the narrative structure in plain English.

This version of Shakespeare's classic comedy The Merry Wives of Windsor is adapted to plain English. This is one of Shakespeare's comedies first published in the early 1600s. This adaptation is simplified in plain English and targeted at a younger audience. The plot tells the story of the romantic aspirations of the greedy and immoral Falstaff as he pursues the attentions of multiple women. Various plots are launched to try and foil his plans.

Shakespeare for Kids adapts and abridges Shakespeare's classic plays presenting them in shorter versions in plain English, in this case our abridged adaptation of The Merchant of Venice runs just under 20 minutes. Short enough to retain the interest of a younger audience. The Merchant Of Venice is considered a romantic comedy, though has its share of dramatic scenes. A young nobleman wishes to borrow money to spend on a wealthy heiress, but falls foul of an unethical moneylender.

Welcome to the busy, industrial port city of Steamkettle Bay, the second-largest city in all of Industralia. It's filled with manufacturing factories, airship docks, inventors, artists, and lots and lots of streetwise, clever kids. It's a warm Saturday in the summer of 1872, and somewhere in Steamkettle Bay, bad things are happening. Can Paisley Pockets and Christopher Cogan stop a crime in progress? They may be just a couple of kids, but where there's a will, and some smarts, there just might be a way.