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This Splash Read collection includes three historical fiction short stories about women in Utah history. While Splash Read stories are enjoyed by kids of all ages, they were written to facilitate a conversation between a child and parent or student and teacher. Each story introduces an influential person from history. Stories discuss life skills, challenges, problem-solving, and important issues. We’ve heard positive reviews from kids as young as first graders and as old as 10th graders.

This Splash Read collection includes 15 historical fiction short stories about women in history. While Splash Read stories are enjoyed by kids of all ages, they were written to facilitate a conversation between a child and parent, or student and teacher. Each story introduces an influential person from history. Stories discuss life skills, challenges, problem-solving, and important issues. We’ve heard positive reviews from kids as young as first graders and as old as 10th graders.

This Splash Read collection includes three historical fiction short stories about women in sports. While Splash Read stories are enjoyed by kids of all ages, they were written to facilitate a conversation between a child and parent or student and teacher. Each story introduces an influential person from history. Stories discuss life skills, challenges, problem-solving, and important issues. We’ve heard positive reviews from kids as young as first graders and as old as 10th graders.

Queen Sati rules her city with wisdom and grace. She has the respect of her people, knowledge of the gods, and faith that her plans to lead them into a brighter tomorrow are ready to take place. Ahm is a teen coming into her own. Living near the market square of the city with her mother, the girl’s insight, compassion, and beauty has everyone she comes in contact with seeing her as a jewel of Egypt. When a chance encounter between the two turns into a friendship, both will be tested beyond what they could have imagined, or wanted.

Oi, you snivelling pig-dogs! Are you ready for a Viking adventure? Join Velda while proving she's the awesomest Viking around. Contains: Velda the Awesomest Viking and the Voyage of Deadly Doom and Velda the Awesomest Viking and the Ginormous Frost Giants.

Sylvie and her mother and grandmother are beloved, trusted healers in their medieval French village, though some whisper that 15-year-old Sylvie and her grand-mere deal in more than herbs and medicines. Perhaps they’re a bit...witchy? After her grandmother dies, and an attempt to use magic to heal her mother’s grief brooks tragic consequences, Sylvie leaves her village in search of a teacher. The journey subjects her to strange alliances, powerful temptations, danger, and deceit. In the end, there may be only one wise woman Sylvie can trust in a world that would define her limits.

A story of courage and dreams. Bailey the Hippo wants to prove her value by exercising her effervescent panache! Bailey has many obstacles to overcome, including the mean comments of others and the bullying that consequently follows. Her zest is under siege! Bailey will tirelessly have to go where few others would. This is the story of Bailey's quest. Bailey's ambition! Bailey's pink tutu. An intrepid story of Bailey's desires. Her gusto will have to carry her further and further. Then what can her tiny heart hope to aspire to?

El dinero del almuerzo ha sido robado en la escuela primaria West Valley, y la detective de cuarto grado favorita de todos está en el caso. Con una piruleta de cereza en la mano, su fedora y su fiel cuaderno, Maisy se adentra en su mundo de misterio en blanco y negro para buscar pistas.

It’s official! Eleven-year-old Sam Kerr is a fully-fledged soccer tragic! So, when the school’s annual Sports Day comes around, she is disappointed when soccer isn’t on the list of activities.

Sunny Beringer hates her first name - her real first name - Sunflower. And she hates that her mom has suddenly left behind her dad and uprooted their family miles away from New Jersey to North Carolina just so she can pursue some fancy degree. Sunny has to live with a grandmother she barely knows, and she’s had to leave her beloved cat and all her friends behind. And no one else seems to think anything is wrong. So she creates “Sunny Beringer’s Totally Awesome Plan for Romance” - a list of surefire ways to make her parents fall madly in love again.

Ten-year-old Miranda Stevens approaches the fifth-grade classroom with trepidation. She must face the same snobby classmates that she met when she came to Montana at the end of the last school year to attend this small rural school, and worst of all, Christopher Bergman, the classroom bully who takes special delight in making Miranda's life miserable. Friendship, loyalty, courage, and lesson's learned the hard way are all part of Miranda's story as she lives with her grandparents on their dairy farm. If only she had a horse of her very own, she thinks, nothing else would matter.

Fairport's darkest hour in the midst of a deadly plague and burning city, when only a brave elderly magistrate stood between an angry mob and a winged warrior trying to keep the people safe. The perils of war and invasion by enemy armies, countered by an Elven maiden and her bow. The intervening acts of Unicorns. Dwarves with the strength of stone and the craft and cunning of a human mage contending against the power of a demon. Even the last days of the realm itself and the escape of its few survivors into a new world. All these events and more.

Rachel and Hilary are sent to live with their ambitious aunt who runs a stage school, training a troupe of dancing girls. It's heaven for Hilary who loves to perform, but quite the opposite for quiet Rachel. The last thing Rachel wants is to become one of her aunt's Little Wonders—particularly if it means behaving like their irritating show-off of a cousin. A mischievous, fun and moving story about young performers, from the acclaimed author of the classic Ballet Shoes.

¡Menudos cambios de humor los de Judy Moody! Buen humor, mal humor, un humor de perros sobre todo el día de la vuelta al colegio. Pero cuando el profesor Todd pide a la clase que cada uno haga un collage sobre sí mismo, Judy se lo pasa tan bien que casi se olvida de su mal humor. Durante un mes, tendrá que componer un collage que explique cómo es ella. El único problema es que no pertenece a ningún club. ¿Cómo se las ingeniarán Judy Moody y su amigo Rocky para formar uno?

In the midst of wonder and awe lies challenge and danger. Cara's first journey takes her to the beautiful Kingdom of Jama'a, but something terrible awaits her, the Omiran - a cruel creature made of stone and malice. Cara must do what she can to defeat the monster and protect the kingdom.

Twelve-year-old Tahlia Wilkins is ready to start off her perfect summer when her dreamy crush invited her to his birthday pool party. But the Red Goddess of Panties, a.k.a. her first period, arrives 24 hours before the pool party and completely messes up all her plans. To make matters worse, her mom is out of town, and there’s no way she’s going to ask her awkward dad for help! Thalia was always afraid growing up would be tough, but this is just not fair.

¡La detective de cuarto grado favorito de todos ha vuelto con una dosis doble de aventuras misteriosas! Mientras Maisy participa en un misterioso evento de fin de semana para detectives junior, descubre un caso real. ¿Podría un fantasma estar rondando la Mansión Misteriosa?
¡Descúbrelo en la emocionante tercera entrega de Los Expedientes Maisy!

¡Por fin Violeta, Adriana, Jimena y Martina se han desprendido de todas las piedras en los bolsillos y pueden volar! Pero la banda de noloconseguirás sigue al acecho y prepara un nuevo golpe para evitar que las niñas se eleven libres y felices. Quizás con la ayuda del señor siquierespuedes, ellas consigan cambiar la canción del NO por la canción del SÍ: ¿lograrán volar hasta lo más alto? ¿Lograrán ser lo que quieran ser?

During the First World War, as men were sent to fight, women and girls took their place in munitions factories. Football became a favourite pastime, and before long they were creating all-female sides. When Polly Nabb's brother Joe is called up, all she wants to do is kick a ball about and forget the war. Mam has other ideas and makes her stay at home to help with endless chores. But football is something Polly is prepared to fight for - it's her life! She's determined to do whatever it takes to fulfil her dream and show the world that football is not just for boys.

Nicky is a shy girl who feels most at home in the safe space of her school library, but the library closes for a week and Nicky is forced to face her social anxiety. When she meets a group of unique, diverse, inspiring women at her mother's diner—members of a women's motorcycle club—Nicky realizes that being different doesn’t have to mean being alone, and that there’s a place for everyone. Book lovers of all ages will find inspiration in this beautiful love letter to reading—and how words help us find empathy and connections with the world around us.