Frank Carlson Library

La compañera del rey león había tenido una sola cría que fue creciendo en un ambiente natural, y era la esperanza del reino para que lo gobernara en un futuro cuando su padre llegara a la vejez.Salía como de costumbre a jugar con sus amigos y mostraba mucha delicadeza, no le agradaba la brusquedad, por lo que fue objeto de burlas de los otros cachorros, lo que hizo que se apartara de ellos y se reuniera con las hembras, donde se encontraba a...

Daisy Evans just wants to show Dad her cast. But man! It can be hard waiting for him to return from his underway. As a military kid, Daisy is no stranger to having to wait for Dad to come home, but this is agonizing. Luckily the weekend is packed with activities to keep her distracted. Overrated Turkey Day and D.L.'s regional spelling bee are going to be great. But meeting Rose and Iris (ugh!) puts a damper on everything. Especially when Daisy and...

¿A tu corta edad te has convertido en la persona más madura de tu hogar? ¿A menudo buscas en otro lado apoyo emocional porque no puedes recurrir a tus padres? ¿Tu casa ya no se siente como un lugar seguro y feliz? Entonces sigue leyendo… "La infancia es la época en la que cada ser humano debería tener el derecho a ser completamente feliz". - Anónimo Ser madre o padre definitivamente no es una tarea fácil. A pesar de ello, las madres y los...

Raised by his grandparents, Luke Hudson has never really known his parents. But when a birthday wish catapults him back in time, he gets the rare chance to alter history for the better. Racing against time, Luke must change the past to save the future. For great change there must be great sacrifice. What will Luke's be?

Ana looks out the pet store window with the store's last remaining animals for sale-a dog, a hedgehog and a mouse. What are they waiting for? Ana remembers finding the dog and bringing him to the store as a puppy. She's watched as all the other dogs-the most charming, the most elegant, the strongest-have all gone off. Ana, too, has never left, except at nights when she closes the store and goes home to the modest apartment she shares with her grandmother....

Collected here for the first time, the first three young adult novels of M.E. Purfield. A Pentecostal girl not only questions her faith when she meets a Buddhist punk in her school but also what it means to be family in jesus freakz + buddha punx. A guitarist bored with her art runs off to New York to live with her father and join the circus brewing in a time of great cultural change in Breaking Fellini. Delicate Cutters documents a teen girl's struggle...

This is literary fiction at its best. Filled with raw and rich characters, it portrays humanity at its flawed worst and inspiring best."Mercy is a phenomenal young adult coming of age story that will capture the hearts of readers of all ages!""A profoundly moving novel, with a story so powerful as to cause me to pause every few pages to wipe away tears. Mercy packs an emotional punch... This is an impressive debut novel, one well-worth the grief and...

A children's picture book that incorporates lush visual storytelling with poetic language to tell the tale of a magical gender variant child who brings transformation and change to the world around them with the help of their mother's love. This unique children's book honors timeless fairy-tale themes while challenging gender, racial, and body stereotypes.